Show Account

Curl

Prerequisite:  Example assumes you have previously authenticated, and your valid session cookie is in 'mycookie'.

Note:  This is about the simplest API call to make.  Since you have to provide the account ID to get the account ID it of course has very little utility in the context of this stand alone example. 

#!/bin/sh -e
ACCOUNT="1234"
curl -i -H X_API_VERSION:1.5 -b mycookie -X GET https://my.rightscale.com/api/accounts/$ACCOUNT.xml

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.0.15
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:25:35 GMT
Content-Type: application/vnd.rightscale.account+xml;charset=utf-8
Connection: keep-alive
Status: 200 OK
X-Runtime: 42
Content-Length: 358
X-Request-Uuid: fc3d3b6d2d864815ad976f1f2324c617
Set-Cookie:
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0, must-revalidate

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<account>
  <created_at>2007/01/09 06:20:08 +0000</created_at>
  <links>
    <link rel="self" href="/api/accounts/1234"/>
    <link rel="owner" href="/api/users/2"/>
    <link rel="cluster" href="/api/clusters/1"/>
  </links>
  <updated_at>2012/09/20 02:10:25 +0000</updated_at>
  <name>TEST API Account</name>
</account>

right_api_client

require 'rubygems'
require 'pp'                          # Require pretty print Ruby gem
require 'right_api_client'            # RightScale API client gem

user = 'greg.doe@example.com'         # Set user email address for usingthe Dashboard
acct = '1234'                         # Set the account ID
pass = 'SomeSecurePassword'           # Set the password for the user.  Create client object so you can use the API.
@client = RightApi::Client.new(:email => user, :password => pass, :account_id => acct)
#
# Setup and authenticate above. Set and use additional variables below, display output, etc.
#
pp @client.accounts(:id => acct).show       # Show account '1234' information

#<RightApi::ResourceDetail resource_type="account", name="GregDoe">

PowerShell

Prerequisite:  Example assumes you have previously authenticated and your session cookie for subsequent requests is in 'cookieContainer'.

#get cookie container from authentication $cookieContainer
$showAccountRequest = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create("https://my.rightscale.com/api/accounts/$account.xml")
$showAccountRequest.Method = "GET"
$showAccountRequest.CookieContainer = $cookieContainer
$showAccountRequest.Headers.Add("X_API_VERSION", "1.5");
[System.Net.WebResponse] $showAccountResponse = $showAccountRequest.GetResponse()
$showAccountResponseStream = $showAccountResponse.GetResponseStream()
$showAccountResponseStreamReader = New-Object System.IO.StreamReader -argumentList $showAccountResponseStream
[string]$showAccountResponseString = $showAccountResponseStreamReader.ReadToEnd()
write-host $showAccountResponseString

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<account>
  <links>
    <link href="/api/accounts/711" rel="self"/>
    <link href="/api/users/2" rel="owner"/>
    <link href="/api/clusters/1" rel="cluster"/>
  </links>
  <created_at>2007/01/09 06:20:08 +0000</created_at>
  <updated_at>2012/09/20 02:10:25 +0000</updated_at>
  <name>Greg Doe</name>
</account>

Postman

See the List and Show Assets examples (RightScale API 1.6 Guide:  Appendix A - APEye Tools > Google Chrome Postman Plugin)