John, The API lives at /nifi-api, so the address you are looking for would be http://localhost:8080/nifi-api/controller/about
Please let us know if you have any additional questions or stumbling blocks. Thanks! Aldrin Piri Sent from my mobile device. On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:16 AM, John McMahon < [email protected]> wrote: > Greetings all, > > I have started looking into Apache Nifi. I was interested in using the > Rest API and after I started my instance of Nifi, I wanted to test it. > > My Nifi is located at localhost:8080/nifi. I am using Rest Web Service > Client on Chrome > > I set the method to GET and the URL to > http://localhost:8080/nifi/controller/about > > I think this is a good rest call to use since the Authorization is Ready > Only and the data shouldn't be anything critical. > > I get the the following response: > > 404, Not Found > Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 15:08:44 GMT > Cache-Control: must-revalidate,no-cache,no-store, > must-revalidate,no-cache,no-store > X-UA-Compatible: IE=edge > Server: Jetty(9.2.11.v20150529) > Content-Length: 305 > Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > *Time taken* (in milliseconds): 52 > > Mind you, I don't have any users entered into Nifi's user list. This is > currently just a barebones Nifi instance. > > I don't know why the response contains IE=edge as I do not have that > software on my Mac. > > Is the path I entered for URL incorrect? Then I set the URL to > http://localhost:8080/controller/about > > and it returned a response code of 200, however in the Raw Response I got > the following message about mistyping and recommending I add "/nifi" to the > path: > > <!DOCTYPE html> > <html> > > <head> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> > <link rel="shortcut icon" href="../nifi/images/nifi16.ico"/> > <title>NiFi</title> > <link href="/nifi/css/message-pane.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> > <link href="/nifi/css/message-page.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> > </head> > > <body class="message-pane"> > <div class="message-pane-message-box"> > <p class="message-pane-title"> > Did you mean: <a href="/nifi/">/nifi</a> > </p> > <p class="message-pane-content">You may have mistyped...</p> > </div> > </body> > </html> > >
