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# Search resource instances

GET http://localhost:3000/lifecycle-manager/resources/{modelId}/instances

Searches resource instances.

Reference: https://docs.itential.com/itential-platform/6/api-reference/lifecycle-manager/get-resource-instances-http

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (basic auth, required) — Basic authentication of the form `Basic <base64(username:password)>`.

## Request

### Path parameters

- `modelId` (string, required) — modelId

## Response

### 200

response

- `data` (list of object, optional)
  - `_id` (any, required)
  - `name` (string, required) — The name of the resource instance
  - `description` (string, required, default: ) — Free-form text describing the resource instance
  - `modelId` (any, required)
  - `instanceData` (object, required, nullable) — The data for the resource instance
  - `lastAction` (object, required) — The last action that was run on this instance
    - `_id` (any, required) — The identifier of an action
    - `executionId` (any, required)
    - `name` (string, required) — The name of the action
    - `type` (enum, required) — The type of the action
      - Allowed values: `import`, `create`, `update`, `delete`
    - `status` (enum, required) — A single string describing the current activity status of this action
      - Allowed values: `running`, `error`, `complete`, `canceled`, `paused`
  - `created` (any, required) — An ISO date string denoting when this resource instance was created
  - `createdBy` (any, required) — The account identifier of the user who created this resource instance
  - `lastUpdated` (any, required) — An ISO date string denoting when this resource instance was last updated
  - `lastUpdatedBy` (any, required) — The account identifier of the user who last updated this resource instance
- `metadata` (object, optional) — Properties describing search result pagination
  - `skip` (integer, optional)
  - `limit` (integer, optional)
  - `total` (integer, optional)
  - `nextPageSkip` (integer, optional)
  - `previousPageSkip` (integer, optional)
  - `currentPageSize` (integer, optional)

## Errors

### 500 Internal Server Error

Error response from API

- `any`

## Examples

**Response**

```json
{
  "data": [
    {
      "name": "VLAN Service",
      "description": "EC2 Instance in US-EAST-1 with ID ec2-12345678",
      "instanceData": {},
      "lastAction": {
        "_id": null,
        "name": "Create",
        "type": "import",
        "status": "running"
      },
      "created": null,
      "createdBy": null,
      "lastUpdated": null,
      "lastUpdatedBy": null
    }
  ],
  "metadata": {
    "skip": 1,
    "limit": 1,
    "total": 1,
    "nextPageSkip": 1,
    "previousPageSkip": 1,
    "currentPageSize": 1
  },
  "message": "Successfully created the requested item"
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "http://localhost:3000/lifecycle-manager/resources/modelId/instances"

response = requests.get(url)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'http://localhost:3000/lifecycle-manager/resources/modelId/instances';
const options = {method: 'GET'};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```

```go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "http://localhost:3000/lifecycle-manager/resources/modelId/instances"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("http://localhost:3000/lifecycle-manager/resources/modelId/instances")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```java
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("http://localhost:3000/lifecycle-manager/resources/modelId/instances")
  .asString();
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('GET', 'http://localhost:3000/lifecycle-manager/resources/modelId/instances');

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("http://localhost:3000/lifecycle-manager/resources/modelId/instances");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "http://localhost:3000/lifecycle-manager/resources/modelId/instances")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "GET"

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```