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Use of GET method to retrieve data and container object metadata

Client applications use the HTTP GET method and an object ID or name to retrieve data object and container object metadata from the CDMI namespace.

The response might include predefined metadata or custom metadata when an SGAPI client application created the object in the StorageGRID Webscale system.

For GET, when the requested field childrenrange is specified and the requested field children is not included, the complete range of objects within the container is returned. For example, GET /CDMI/foo/?childrenrange returns "children range" : " 0-8989899".

If no requested fields are specified or the requested field children is specified without a range or a range that includes more than 10, 000 objects, GET is limited by a maximum range of 10,000 objects (0 through 9999). If a container includes more than 10,000 objects, multiple GET operations must be run.