Get online asset profile
Get information about the permissions you have for a certain asset in SDL Online Editor, according to your user type.
For security reasons, you need to perform a Login action before making any other public calls to the WorldServer API. The
sessionId in the response is your session token. Use this token in all the other calls that you make.
Also, make sure that you have the appropriate user type permissions to perform this API call. To view or update your permissions, in WorldServer, go to and then select your user type.
Prerequisites
To get the profile of an online asset, you need to find out the ID of that asset by making a GET call to the /onlineAssets endpoint.
API call
<protocol>://<ws-host>:<ws-port>/ws-api/v1/lp/ue/profile?token=<sessionId>&onlineAssetId=<onlineAssetId>
Details
- GET method
- Content-Type in the header:
application/json - Mandatory parameters: the session token (as a query string parameter or as a key-value pair in the header) and the ID of the online asset (as a URI parameter)
Response
Error messages
| Message | Status code |
|---|---|
| Field onlineAssetId not set | 400 Bad Request |
| No session token provided or invalid token | 401 Unauthorized |
| Could not write content: (was java.lang.NullPointerException) | 500 Internal Server Error |
| Failed to convert value of type [...] (If the ID you entered is not a valid number.) | 500 Internal Server Error |