GET community/get-community-information?community_short_name={community_short_name}&community_ID={community_ID}

Gets the basic information of a community

Request Information

Headers

HTTP_AUTHORIZATION: Required. OAuth 1.0 parameters with the OAuth signature of the url you are going to request. The consumer keys and access token can be obtained from the community administration.

Sample:

        HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:
            OAuth oauth_token="CObXqjfOisVh9%2F2GjC7NNd8BCzY%3D",
            oauth_consumer_key="clGACsiGaMp%2FD%2BUwkSvRBxA1k50%3D",
            oauth_nonce="VqKza6d5x1HpPQWFe08spbdOnkTQpfaLfD9Oeuyg",
            oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1",
            oauth_timestamp="1462882011",
            oauth_signature="RH5aKKKJaEvK5cIsZZzXtFh7cCk%3D"

URI Parameters

Name	Description	Type	Additional information
community_short_name		string	Optional
community_ID		globally unique identifier	Optional

Response Information

Resource Description

Name	Description	Type	Additional information
name	Name	string	Required
short_name	Short name	string	Required
description	Brief Description	string	Required
tags	Tags (comma separated)	string	Required
type	Community's type	string	Required
access_type	Community's access type	integer	Optional
categories	Community's categories	Collection of globally unique identifier	Optional
users	Community's users	Collection of globally unique identifier	Optional

Response Formats

application/json, text/json

Sample:

{
  "name": "sample string 1",
  "short_name": "sample string 2",
  "description": "sample string 3",
  "tags": "sample string 4",
  "type": "sample string 5",
  "access_type": 6,
  "categories": [
    "5ebed160-ad00-47ac-b8cf-73c2866cecf8",
    "96451d4b-2ec0-423c-9dfa-fe8b757dc308"
  ],
  "users": [
    "a962bf99-2324-4f85-a5ce-7d535dce53b0",
    "a947256d-c4e2-4722-aa08-3ba58880d2dc"
  ]
}

Response HTTP status code

On success, the response contains 200 code.

On fail, throws a WebException with code:

401 Unauthorized if the OAuth signature is invalid
400 Bad Request if the params are invalid
500 Internal server error if something goes wrong...