Request/Response types¶
The Rackspace Monitoring API supports JSON data serialization request and response format.
The request format is specified by using the Content-Type
header and is
required for operations that have a request body. This header is required for
operations that have a request body. The syntax for the Content-Type
header is:
Content-Type: application/format
Where format
is json
.
The response format is specified by using one of the following methods:
Accept
header. The syntax for theAccept
header is:Accept: application/format
Where
format
isjson
.
Rackspace Monitoring API also supports the *JSONP format. This format is the same as
JSON except that the X-Auth-Token
header is replaced with an HTTP query
parameter with the same name. An additional HTTP query parameter JSONP
indicates the method name to wrap the JSON response in.