hw

The hw URI gets a list of categories of manageable hardware interfaces.

URI path

hw

Supported request methods

GET

Queries the system for the list of categories of hardware interfaces manageable by web services. The data record returned is a list of URIs corresponding to the “children” of hw in the web services data tree.

Supported content types

HTML

The result URIs are turned into URLs relative to the device, and returned in an HTML list.

XML

The result URIs are each wrapped in element tags, and returned within an hw block. For example:

<hw>
        <element>hw/buttons</element>
        <element>hw/leds</element>
        <element>hw/time</element>
</hw>

JSON

The result URI strings are collected in an array assigned to a hw field. For example:

{ “hw” : [ “hw/buttons”, “hw/leds”,  “hw/time” ] }