API Reference - Assignment calls

Making assignments via the rest API

Important: An assignment is performed as a GET call, but the returned value is just a confirmation or error code. Internally, an assignment does GET and PUT calls.

What is an assignment?

An assignment is a GET and a PUT executed inside a node without the data of the blocks being uploaded or downloaded, but network traffic can be generated depending on the bases involved.

Additionally, node names can be given to copy blocks across a Jazz cluster.

Assignment syntax from the rest API

Can be done by either an existing block or a constant. E.g.,

//lmdb/base17/key55=///tokyo_node//lmdb/base17/key55
//lmdb/base17/key55=&[1,5,6];
//lmdb/base17/key55=//bash/exec/(&ls%20-la)
///tokyo_node//lmdb/base17/key55=//0-mq/speech2text/(//lmdb/sound/voice_one)
///tokyo_node//tree/this/that=///anchorage_node//lmdb/base17/key55

The important syntax rule is: The term to the left of the = is an L-value (something valid for PUT and DELETE) and the term to the right and R-value (something valid for GET and HEAD).