HTTP List Resources

List available HTTP resources for the Riak node. This can be used by clients to automatically recognize the location of the resources for specific operations.

The standard resources are:

riak_kv_wm_buckets - Bucket Operations
riak_kv_wm_index - HTTP Secondary Indexes
riak_kv_wm_link_walker - HTTP Link Walking
riak_kv_wm_mapred - HTTP MapReduce
riak_kv_wm_object- Object/Key Operations
riak_kv_wm_ping - HTTP Ping
riak_kv_wm_props - HTTP Set Bucket Properties
riak_kv_wm_stats - HTTP Status

If Search is enabled, the following resources will also be included:

riak_solr_searcher_wm - Solr search
riak_solr_indexer_wm - Solr indexing

Request

GET /

Headers:

Accept - application/json or text/html

Response

Normal status codes:

200 OK

Important headers:

Link - all resources that are described in the response body, but in Link form

Example

# Request JSON response
curl -i http://localhost:8098 -H "Accept: application/json"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Accept
Server: MochiWeb/1.1 WebMachine/1.9.0 (participate in the frantic)
Link: </riak>; rel="riak_kv_wm_link_walker",</mapred>; rel="riak_kv_wm_mapred",</ping>; rel="riak_kv_wm_ping",</riak>; rel="riak_kv_wm_raw",</stats>; rel="riak_kv_wm_stats"
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:24:35 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 143

{"riak_kv_wm_link_walker":"/riak","riak_kv_wm_mapred":"/mapred","riak_kv_wm_ping":"/ping","riak_kv_wm_raw":"/riak","riak_kv_wm_stats":"/stats"}

# Request HTML response
curl -i http://localhost:8098 -H "Accept: text/html"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Accept
Server: MochiWeb/1.1 WebMachine/1.9.0 (participate in the frantic)
Link: </riak>; rel="riak_kv_wm_link_walker",</mapred>; rel="riak_kv_wm_mapred",</ping>; rel="riak_kv_wm_ping",</riak>; rel="riak_kv_wm_raw",</stats>; rel="riak_kv_wm_stats"
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:24:35 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 267

<html><body><ul><li><a href="/riak">riak_kv_wm_link_walker</a></li><li><a href="/mapred">riak_kv_wm_mapred</a></li><li><a href="/ping">riak_kv_wm_ping</a></li><li><a href="/riak">riak_kv_wm_raw</a></li><li><a href="/stats">riak_kv_wm_stats</a></li></ul></body></html>