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Returns the details of the given property of the given entity-type

GET
api/databases/{dbid}/metadata/entities/{entity}/properties/{property}
This request is used for getting information about the given entity-type property. For example, type (TypeName, .NET), edit mode (ReadOnly), duplicate option (Duplicate).

Request:

Argument Type Description
dbid GUID  The ID of the database
entity String  The name of the entity
property String  The name of the entity property

Response:

Content

Type name Description
Object 

Request:
  1. GET api/databases/ec5a34c2-7062-4be7-ade9-c15acefcdbb8/metadata/entities/Task/properties/Name
  2. Accept: text/json
  3. Accept-Encoding: deflate
  4. Host: localhost:6496
  5. Cookie: sid=20715d87-29dc-429e-9a86-4b3c60cd8a45
Response:
  1. Transfer-Encoding: chunked
  2. Content-Encoding: 
  3. Cache-Control: no-store
  4. Content-Type: text/json; charset=utf-8
  5. Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:47:45 GMT
  6. ETag: "634916866010755264"
  7. Last-Modified: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:36:41 GMT
  8. Server: Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0
  9.  
  10. {
  11.   "MetaName": "Name",
  12.   "Name": "Name",
  13.   "DisplayName": "Name",
  14.   "Description": "",
  15.   "TypeName": "System.String",
  16.   "BigStringLite": null,
  17.   "HashValue": null,
  18.   "ApiFlags": null,
  19.   "Declarative": false,
  20.   "LockedBySolution": false,
  21.   "IsDelayed": false,
  22.   "AllowNull": false,
  23.   "System": false,
  24.   "IsBigString": false,
  25.   "IsBlob": false,
  26.   "UserProtoBuf": false,
  27.   "StringSize": 1000,
  28.   "StringCutPolicy": {
  29.     "Value": 0,
  30.     "Title": "SimpleCut"
  31.   },
  32.   "IndexNames": "",
  33.   "Formula": null,
  34.   "InitialValueExpressin": null,
  35.   "IsCalculating": false,
  36.   "DeleteAction": null,
  37.   "SkipOnCopy": false,
  38.   "Duplicate": {
  39.     "Value": 2,
  40.     "Title": "Optional"
  41.   },
  42.   "IsKey": false,
  43.   "ValueType": "String",
  44.   "ReadOnly": false,
  45.   "EnumName": null,
  46.   "Hidden": false,
  47.   "FieldFormat": "",
  48.   "MaskType": null,
  49.   "EditorName": "",
  50.   "DurationMode": {
  51.     "Value": 0,
  52.     "Title": "None"
  53.   },
  54.   "MinValue": null,
  55.   "MaxValue": null
  56. }