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Discover Information about an Endpoint

Discover information about the Search API, such as it's name, version, indexes and other configured options.

URL: /api/discovery/

Method: GET

Content-Type: application/json

Discovery Response

Attribute Description
apiVersion number The version of the API. This number only increases if a breaking change occurs.
serverVersion string The version of the Universal Search Server software running on this Endpoint.
displayName string The display name of this endpoint.
indexes array Array of Index names available to search on this Endpoint
issues array Array of detected configuration issues present that may hinder normal operation.
stemmingFiles array Array of StemmingFile filenames this endpoint support.
thesaurusFiles array Array of Thesaurus Filenames this endpoint supports.
alphabetFiles array Array of Alphabet filenames this endpoint supports.

Example

Response to a GET request to /api/discovery

{
    "apiVersion": 1,
    "serverVersion": null,
    "displayName": "Contoso",

    "indexes": [
        "Classics",

        "Legal Documents",        
    ],
    "issues": [],
    "stemmingFiles": [
        "stemming"
    ],
    "thesaurusFiles": [
        "colours",
        "currencies",
        "irregular nouns",
        "irregular verbs"
    ],
    "alphabetFiles": [
        "default",
        "English"
    ]
}

Last update: June 21, 2020