PuppetDB 1.1 » API » v2 » Querying Resources

Resources are queried via an HTTP request to the /resources REST endpoint.

Routes

GET /v2/resources

This will return all resources matching the given query. Resources for deactivated nodes are not included in the response. There must be an Accept header containing application/json.

Parameters

• query: Required. A JSON array of query predicates, in prefix form, conforming to the format described below.

The query parameter is described by the following grammar:

query: [ {bool} {query}+ ] | [ "not" {query} ] | [ {match} {field} {value} ]
field:  string | [ string+ ]
value:  string
bool:   "or" | "and"
match:  "=" | "~"

field may be any of:

tag

a case-insensitive tag on the resource

certname

the name of the node associated with the resource

[parameter <resource_param>]

a parameter of the resource

type

the resource type

title

the resource title

exported

whether or not the resource is exported

sourcefile

the manifest file the resource was declared in

sourceline

the line of the manifest on which the resource was declared

For example, for file resources, tagged “magical”, on any host except for “example.local” the JSON query structure would be:

["and", ["not", ["=", "certname", "example.local"]],
        ["=", "type", "File"],
        ["=", "tag", "magical"],
        ["=", ["parameter", "ensure"], "enabled"]

See the Operators page for the full list of available operators. Note that resource queries do not support inequality, and regexp matching is not supported against node status or parameter values.

GET /v2/resources/<TYPE>

This will return all resources for all nodes with the given type. Resources from deactivated nodes aren’t included in the response. There must be an Accept header containing application/json.

Parameters

• query: Optional. A JSON array containing the query in prefix notation. The syntax and semantics are identical to the query parameter for the /resources route, mentioned above. When supplied, the query is assumed to supply additional criteria that can be used to return a subset of the information normally returned by this route.

Examples

Using curl from localhost:

curl -X GET -H "Accept: application/json" 'http://puppetdb:8080/v2/resources/User'

[{"parameters" : {
    "uid" : "1000,
    "shell" : "/bin/bash",
    "managehome" : false,
    "gid" : "1000,
    "home" : "/home/foo,
    "groups" : "users,
    "ensure" : "present"
  },
  "sourceline" : 10,
  "sourcefile" : "/etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp",
  "exported" : false,
  "tags" : [ "foo", "bar" ],
  "title" : "foo",
  "type" : "User",
  "certname" : "host1.mydomain.com"
}, {"parameters" : {
    "uid" : "1001,
    "shell" : "/bin/bash",
    "managehome" : false,
    "gid" : "1001,
    "home" : "/home/bar,
    "groups" : "users,
    "ensure" : "present"
  },
  "sourceline" : 20,
  "sourcefile" : "/etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp",
  "exported" : false,
  "tags" : [ "foo", "bar" ],
  "title" : "bar",
  "type" : "User",
  "certname" : "host2.mydomain.com"}]

GET /v2/resources/<TYPE>/<TITLE>

This will return all resources for all nodes with the given type and title. Resources from deactivated nodes aren’t included in the response. There must be an Accept header containing application/json.

Parameters

• query: Optional. A JSON array containing the query in prefix notation. The syntax and semantics are identical to the query parameter for the /resources route, mentioned above. When supplied, the query is assumed to supply additional criteria that can be used to return a subset of the information normally returned by this route.

Examples

Using curl from localhost:

curl -X GET -H "Accept: application/json" 'http://puppetdb:8080/v2/resources/User/foo'

[{"parameters" : {
    "uid" : "1000,
    "shell" : "/bin/bash",
    "managehome" : false,
    "gid" : "1000,
    "home" : "/home/foo,
    "groups" : "users,
    "ensure" : "present"
  },
  "sourceline" : 10,
  "sourcefile" : "/etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp",
  "exported" : false,
  "tags" : [ "foo", "bar" ],
  "title" : "foo",
  "type" : "User",
  "certname" : "host1.mydomain.com"
}]

Response format

An array of zero or more resource objects, with each object having the following form:

{"certname":   "the certname of the associated host",
 "resource":   "the resource's unique hash",
 "type":       "File",
 "title":      "/etc/hosts",
 "exported":   "true",
 "tags":       ["foo", "bar"],
 "sourcefile": "/etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp",
 "sourceline": "1",
 "parameters": {<parameter>: <value>,
               <parameter>: <value>,
               ...}}

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