Things API v1 - deprecated

An IoT developer can create, read, update and delete Things via the Bosch IoT Things HTTP API.

Model of Thing API version 1

{
  "thingId": "the.namespace:theId",
  "acl": {
      "authorizationSubject-1-to-n": {
          "READ": true,
          "WRITE": true,
          "ADMINISTRATE": true
      }
  },
  "attributes": {},
  "features": {
      "featureId-0-to-n": {
          "properties": {
              "connected": true,
              "complexProperty": {
                  "street": "my street",
                  "house no": 42
              }
          }
      }
  }
}

Things root resource

The root resource contains information about which version is currently deployed.

 https://<host>/api/1/things

If you need a list of all Things you are allowed to see please use the Search resource.

The following operations are available over the HTTP API:

Further Notes

Note on Thing ID

The Thing ID must start with a namespace prefix (Java package notation and a colon ‘:‘).
Due to the fact that a Thing ID often needs to be set in the path, we have restricted the set of allowed characters to those for Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI)
see http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt.
For a POST request this restriction will apply automatically, as our service will generate the ID.
For a PUT request containing for example an $ character in the ID you will get the HTTP status code 400 with following message:

{
  "status": 400,
  "error": "thing.id.invalid",
  "message": "The ID '$1' is not valid! It did not match the pattern '(?<ns>|(?:(?:[a-zA-Z]\w*)(?:\.[a-zA-Z]\w*)*))\:(?:[-\w:@&=+,.!~*'_;]|%\p{XDigit}{2})(?:[-\w:@&=+,.!~*'$_;]|%\p{XDigit}{2})*'.",
  "description": "It must contain a namespace prefix (java package notation + a colon ':') + ID and must conform to RFC-2396 (URI) - check here if it does (select 'path' in the list): http://www.websitedev.de/temp/rfc2396-check.html.gz"
}

Note on Feature ID

Due to the fact that a Feature ID often needs to be set in the path of a HTTP request, we strongly recommend to use a restricted the set of characters (e.g. those for Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) see http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt ).

Note on Attribute and Property Keys

We strongly recommend to use a restricted the set of characters for the keys (identifier) of Thing Attributes and Feature Properties. Currently these identifiers should follow the pattern: [_a-zA-Z][_a-zA-Z0-9\-]*

Note on special fields

Apart of all fields of a Thing which can be set explicitly at Thing creation or modification, a Thing holds additional information which might be of interest.

• _namespace
  The field value is the namespace encountered as a prefix of the Thing ID.
• _modified
  The field value represent the latest modification of the Thing. The timestamp - in ISO-8601 UTC format - is set on each modification of a Thing.
• _revision
  The field value represent how often the Thing was modified. This counter is incremented on each modification of a Thing.