Table of contents
Library
Download API definition:
GET https://dev-api.bentley.com/library/components/{componentId}/variations[?projectId]

Retrieves variations for specified digital component from user's organization or project context.

Authentication

Requires Authorization header with valid Bearer token for scope itwin-platform.

For more documentation on authorization and how to get access token visit OAUTH2 Authorization page.

Authorization

User must be an Organization Administrator for the Organization or have Read permission assigned at the organization level or have Read permission assigned at the project level, in case request is scoped to a project.

An Organization Administrator must have at least one of the following roles assigned in User Management: Account Administrator, Co-Administrator, or CONNECT Services Administrator. For more information about User Management please visit our Bentley Communities Licensing, Cloud, and Web Services wiki page.

Rate limits

All iTwin Platform API operations have a rate limit. For more documentation on that visit Rate limits and quotas page.

Request parameters

Name
Required?
Description
componentId
Yes

Id of the component.

projectId
No

Id of the project.

Request headers

Name
Required?
Description
Authorization
Yes

OAuth access token with itwin-platform scope

Accept
Yes

Setting to application/vnd.bentley.itwin-platform.v1+json is recommended.

Response 200 OK

OK

json
{
    "variations": [{
        "id": "bef75b3c-dc4b-a205-adac-7501a367284e",
        "displayName": "Construction_Chimney_Oli_INOX-VERTICAL-DRAIN-DW (1)",
        "createdDateTime": "2019-12-02T11:50:03.4143965Z",
        "lastModifiedDateTime": "2019-12-02T11:50:03.4143965Z",
        "adHocProperties": [{
                "displayName": "Virtual Socket",
                "value": "0",
                "type": "IntegerType",
                "unitOfMeasure": ""
            },
            {
                "displayName": "Type of Element",
                "value": "Junction",
                "type": "StringType",
                "unitOfMeasure": ""
            }
        ],
        "_links": {
            "associatedDesignDocument": {
                "href": "https://api.bentley.com/library/components/r444f052-c026-40d6-b412-8c3c12004ebe/documents/2da8dcff-5ebb-b236-ea2f-0bfbdf3c667s"
            }
        }
    }]
}

Response 401 Unauthorized

This response indicates that request lacks valid authentication credentials. Access token might not been provided, issued by the wrong issuer, does not have required scopes or request headers were malformed.

json
{
    "error": {
        "code": "HeaderNotFound",
        "message": "Header Authorization was not found in the request. Access denied."
    }
}

Response 404 Not Found

This response indicates that the specified component variations not found.

json
{
    "error": {
        "code": "ComponentVariationsNotFound",
        "message": "Requested Component Variations is not available."
    }
}

Response 422 Unprocessable Entity

Invalid request to get component variations.

json
{
    "error": {
        "code": "InvalidComponentVariationsRequest",
        "message": "Cannot perform operation.",
        "details": [{
            "code": "InvalidValue",
            "message": "Provided componentId value is not valid.",
            "target": "componentId"
        }]
    }
}

Response 429 Too many requests

This response indicates that the user has sent too many requests in a given amount of time.

json
{
    "error": {
        "code": "TooManyRequests",
        "message": "More requests were received than the subscription rate-limit allows."
    }
}

Response headers

Name
Description
retry-after

The number of requests exceeds the rate-limit for the client subscription.

Variations

Name
Type
Description
variations

Variation

Name
Type
Description
id
String

Id of the variation.

displayName
String

Display name of the variation.

adHocProperties

List of adhoc properties of the variation.

createdDateTime
String

Created datetime of the variation.

lastModifiedDateTime
String

Last modified datetime of the variation.

_links

Contains the hyperlinks to the related data of document.

Adhoc Property type

Type of the adhoc property value.

Name
Type
Description
StringType
String
IntegerType
String
DoubleType
String
FloatType
String
BooleanType
String

Adhoc Property

adhoc property of the variation.

Name
Type
Description
displayName
String

Display name of the adhoc property.

value
String

value of the adhoc property.

Adhoc Property type

Type of the adhoc property value.

unitOfMeasure
String

Unit to measure this particular property, e.g., 'Millimeters', 'Inches' etc.

Variation Links

Hyperlinks to related data which complements this entity.

Name
Type
Description
associatedDesignDocument

Link to associated design document.

Link

Name
Type
Description
href
String

Error

Contains error information.

Name
Type
Description
code
String

One of a server-defined set of error codes.

message
String

A human-readable representation of the error.

target
String, null

The target of the error.

Error Response

Gives details for an error that occurred while handling the request. Note that clients MUST NOT assume that every failed request will produce an object of this schema, or that all of the properties in the response will be non-null, as the error may have prevented this response from being constructed.

Name
Type
Description
error

Error information.

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