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Hannes_Rapp
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May 13, 2015

iControlRest - How to limit the output to a single parameter?

Hi, I'm aware that you can pass ?$select= to limit the iControlRest output to a single parameter. It does reduce the output significantly, but its still a bit too much. Question - how can I furth...
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Joe_Pruitt
May 13, 2015

Check out the jq command line JSON processor. You can run your curl command and use jq to parse and select elements. More details here: http://stedolan.github.com/jq

$ curl -sk -u admin:admin https://localhost/mgmt/tm/asm/policies/V9NGrsJI4rJFeyE6uYG7yw/?\$select=fullPath | jq "{fullPath: .fullPath}"`

Will return

{
  "fullPath": "/Common/mysecurity-policy_443"
}

It doesn't change the amount of data downloaded but should help with client-side parsing.

-Joe