Metadata
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Halo 5 - Weapons
Changelog
February 21, 2017:
- Renamed Endpoint from "Weapons" to "Halo 5 - Weapons".
- Removed "{title}" Request Parameter.
- Documented "Accept-Language" Request Header.
April 26, 2016:
- Corrected documentation issue. The documentation for the "type" field was incorrect.
Request
Request URL
Request headers
-
(optional)string
The desired language for the Metadata.
Request body
Responses
200 OK
The response body will contain the requested Metadata.
Representations
// A listing of weapons supported in the title. There is no significance to the ordering.
[
{
// A localized name for the object, suitable for display to users. The text is title
// cased.
"name": "string",
// A localized description, suitable for display to users.
"description": "string",
// The type of the weapon. Options are:
// - Grenade
// - Turret
// - Vehicle
// - Standard
// - Power
"type": "string",
// A reference to a large image for icon use. This may be null if there is no image
// defined.
"largeIconImageUrl": "string",
// A reference to a small image for icon use. This may be null if there is no image
// defined.
"smallIconImageUrl": "string",
// Indicates whether the weapon is usable by a player.
"isUsableByPlayer": "boolean",
// The ID that uniquely identifies the weapon.
"id": "int",
// Internal use only. Do not use.
"contentId": "guid"
}
]
Code samples
@ECHO OFF
curl -v -X GET "https://www.haloapi.com/metadata/h5/metadata/weapons"
-H "Accept-Language: en"
-H "Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: {subscription key}"
--data-ascii "{body}"
using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;
namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
static class Program
{
static void Main()
{
MakeRequest();
Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
Console.ReadLine();
}
static async void MakeRequest()
{
var client = new HttpClient();
var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);
// Request headers
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.AcceptLanguage.Add(StringWithQualityHeaderValue.Parse("en"));
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");
var uri = "https://www.haloapi.com/metadata/h5/metadata/weapons?" + queryString;
var response = await client.GetAsync(uri);
}
}
}
// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
public class JavaSample
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();
try
{
URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://www.haloapi.com/metadata/h5/metadata/weapons");
URI uri = builder.build();
HttpGet request = new HttpGet(uri);
request.setHeader("Accept-Language", "en");
request.setHeader("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");
// Request body
StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
request.setEntity(reqEntity);
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
if (entity != null)
{
System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
}
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>JSSample</title>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
var params = {
// Request parameters
};
$.ajax({
url: "https://www.haloapi.com/metadata/h5/metadata/weapons?" + $.param(params),
beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
// Request headers
xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Accept-Language","en");
xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key","{subscription key}");
},
type: "GET",
// Request body
data: "{body}",
})
.done(function(data) {
alert("success");
})
.fail(function() {
alert("error");
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
NSString* path = @"https://www.haloapi.com/metadata/h5/metadata/weapons";
NSArray* array = @[
// Request parameters
@"entities=true",
];
NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];
NSLog(@"%@", path);
NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
[_request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];
// Request headers
[_request setValue:@"en" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Accept-Language"];
[_request setValue:@"{subscription key}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key"];
// Request body
[_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
NSURLResponse *response = nil;
NSError *error = nil;
NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];
if (nil != error)
{
NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
}
else
{
NSError* error = nil;
NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
if (nil != _connectionData)
{
json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
}
if (error || !json)
{
NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
}
NSLog(@"%@", json);
_connectionData = nil;
}
[pool drain];
return 0;
}
<?php
// This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';
$request = new Http_Request2('https://www.haloapi.com/metadata/h5/metadata/weapons');
$url = $request->getUrl();
$headers = array(
// Request headers
'Accept-Language' => 'en',
'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key' => '{subscription key}',
);
$request->setHeader($headers);
$parameters = array(
// Request parameters
);
$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);
$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_GET);
// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");
try
{
$response = $request->send();
echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
echo $ex;
}
?>
########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64
headers = {
# Request headers
'Accept-Language': 'en',
'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
}
params = urllib.urlencode({
})
try:
conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('www.haloapi.com')
conn.request("GET", "/metadata/h5/metadata/weapons?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################
########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64
headers = {
# Request headers
'Accept-Language': 'en',
'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
}
params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
})
try:
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('www.haloapi.com')
conn.request("GET", "/metadata/h5/metadata/weapons?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################
require 'net/http'
uri = URI('https://www.haloapi.com/metadata/h5/metadata/weapons')
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
# Request headers
request['Accept-Language'] = 'en'
# Request headers
request['Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key'] = '{subscription key}'
# Request body
request.body = "{body}"
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
http.request(request)
end
puts response.body