Query Business Attribute Schema

	GET /metadata/business-attributes
	Available since: 8.0.200.04

Description

Returns the schema for the list of available business attributes.

You do not need to switch to a specific server mode to attempt this operation.

Operation

ID	CV.WS.CONFIG.BA
Method	GET
URL	All: /metadata/business-attributes /metadata/business-attributes/${business-attribute-name} /metadata/business-attributes?cv-attribute=${attribute-full-name}
Parameter	Type	Mandatory	Description
${business-attribute-name}	string	no	The name of the business attribute, in order to retrieve its schema only.
${attribute-full-name}	string	yes if ?cv-attribute= is part of the URL	The full name of a Context Services' business attribute in order to retrieve its schema. Examples: Service.type, Task.disposition, State.media_type

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Response

The Context Management Service API answers with HTTP codes for every request. The following table shows the correct response for a successful request. See HTTP Response Codes and Errors for further details on the possible codes that this operation can return.

HTTP code		200
HTTP message		OK
Parameter	Type	Mandatory	Description
Body Business Attribute or BusinessAttribute[]
name	string	yes	The business attribute's name.
dbid	string	yes	The business attribute's database ID.
display_name	string	yes	The business attribute's display name.
description	string	yes	The description.
map_name Available since: 8.1.000.xx	boolean	no	true means that the Business Attribute Value Names is returned instead of DB IDs in the responses for GET operations. false means that DB IDs are returned in the responses for GET operations. See also [business-attributes] Section.
cv_attributes	string[]	no	The associated Context Services attributes.
values	BusinessAttribute[]	no	Nested possible attributes values.

Example

Operation

 GET /metadata/business-attributes/MediaType

Result

200 OK {
{
 "display_name" : "Media Type",
 "values" : [ { 
 "display_name" : "email",
 "description" : "Media EMail",
 "name" : "email",
 "dbid" : 1003
 }, {
 "display_name" : "chat",
 "description" : "Media Chat",
 "name" : "chat",
 "dbid" : 1006
 }, {
 "display_name" : "voice",
 "description" : "Media Voice",
 "name" : "voice",
 "dbid" : 1001
 }, {
 "display_name" : "fax",
 "description" : "Media Fax",
 "name" : "fax",
 "dbid" : 1014
 }],
 "description" : "Media type identifier",
 "name" : "MediaType",
 "dbid" : 1001,
 "map_name" : false,
 "cv_attributes" : [ "Service.media_type", "State.media_type", "Task.media_type" ]
} 
}