Clone Object

Clones a given Object and returns a cloned object body.

Request

HTTP Request

POST /node/api/objects/:id/clone

Permissions

create-object | manage-objects

Path parameters

Parameter Type Description

id

String
required

The ID or discovery ID of the object to be cloned.

Request body

The request body is empty.

Response

Returns a cloned object body after cloning is complete. See the Object model.

Nested objects and links are cloned, but not returned in the response.

Example

Request

  • Bash

  • JavaScript

  • NodeJS

  • Python

login=<...>
password=<...>
saymon_hostname=<...>
object_id=<...>
url=https://$saymon_hostname/node/api/objects/$object_id/clone

curl -X POST $url -u $login:$password
let login = <...>
let password = <...>
let saymonHostname = <...>
let objectId = <...>
let path = "/node/api/objects/" + objectId + "/clone";
let auth = "Basic " + btoa(login + ":" + password);

let headers = new Headers();
headers.append("Content-Type", "application/json");
headers.append("Authorization", auth);

let requestOptions = {
    method: "POST",
    headers: headers
};

fetch(saymonHostname + path, requestOptions)
    .then(response => response.text())
    .then(result => console.log(result))
    .catch(error => console.log("error", error));
const http = require("http");

let login = <...>
let password = <...>
let saymonHostname = <...>
let objectId = <...>
let path = "/node/api/objects/" + objectId + "/clone";
let auth = "Basic " + Buffer.from(login + ":" + password).toString("base64");

let options = {
    "method": "POST",
    "hostname": saymonHostname,
    "headers": {
        "Authorization": auth
    },
    "path": path
};

let req = http.request(options, function (res) {
    let chunks = [];

    res.on("data", function (chunk) {
        chunks.push(chunk);
    });

    res.on("end", function (chunk) {
        let body = Buffer.concat(chunks);
        console.log(body.toString());
    });

    res.on("error", function (error) {
        console.error(error);
    });
});

req.end();
import requests

login = <...>
password = <...>
saymon_hostname = <...>
object_id = <...>
url = "https://" + saymon_hostname + "/node/api/objects/" + \
    object_id + "/clone"

response = requests.request("POST", url, auth=(login, password))
print(response.text)

Response

{
    "id": "5e79baae6ec5ea28e5105caa",
    "name": "Updated Object",
    "owner_id": "5e21b752308c3c66d64e072c",
    "client_data": "{...}",
    "object_groups": [],
    "geoposition": [],
    "child_ref_ids": [],
    "child_link_ids": [],
    "child_ids": [],
    "parent_id": "1",
    "weight": 1,
    "tags": [],
    "last_state_update": 1585035950051,
    "updated": 1585035950051,
    "created": 1585035085802,
    "state_id": 1,
    "class_id": 13,
    "_stateConditionRefs": [],
    "operations": [],
    "properties": []
}

See Also