To retrieve a specific property of a repository item, send a REST Web Services request as described in the following table.

Request Component

Value

HTTP Method

GET

Functional Parameters

None

URL

Include the component pathname of the repository in the application path after /rest/repository/. Include the name of the item type, the identifier of the specific item, and the name of the property at the end of the path.

The following example shows a REST Web Services request that returns the lastPurchaseDate property of a specific repository item of the user item type in the atg/userprofiling/ProfileAdapterRepository repository.

curl -v -b cookies.txt -X GET \
http://myserver:8080/rest/repository/atg/userprofiling/ProfileAdapterRepository/user/130001/lastPurchaseDate

* About to connect() to myserver port 8080 (#0)
*   Trying 12.34.567.890... connected
* Connected to myserver (12.34.567.890) port 8080 (#0)
> GET /rest/repository/atg/userprofiling/ProfileAdapterRepository/user/130001/lastPurchaseDate HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.21.1 (i386-pc-win32) libcurl/7.21.1 zlib/1.2.5
> Host: myserver:8080
> Accept: */*
> Cookie: DYN_USER_ID=140001; JSESSIONID=46E252A84E611BCD06710FD6A0FBA5A4; DYN_USER_CONFIRM=2a952017db56aab256c7e7077bf1feec
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
< X-Powered-By: Servlet 2.5; JBoss-5.0/JBossWeb-2.1
* Replaced cookie JSESSIONID="A8D99275B90B200E0913A8831E77A9F4" for domain myserver, path /, expire 0
< Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=A8D99275B90B200E0913A8831E77A9F4; Path=/
< X-ATG-Version: version=QVRHUGxhdGZvcm0vMTAuMCxDb21tZXJjZVJlZmVyZW5jZVN0b3JlLzEwLjAgWyBQbGF0Zm9ybUxpY2Vuc
2UvMCBCMkNMaWNlbnNlLzAgIF0=
< Content-Type: application/xml;charset=UTF-8
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 19:42:35 GMT
<
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<atgResponse>
  <lastPurchaseDate>2010-10-27</lastPurchaseDate>
</atgResponse>
* Connection #0 to host myserver left intact
* Closing connection #0