REST APIs

Entity relation

An Entity Relation Object contains links to the related Entity Resources for an entity relation. The following properties exist:

Name	Type	Description
`parents`	Array	In case of a relation definition with multiple parents, contains an array of Link objects referring to the related parent Entity Resources.
`parent`	Link	In case of a relation definition with a single parent, contains a Link object referring to the related parent Entity Resource.
`children`	Array	In case of a relation definition with multiple children, contains an array of Link objects referencing the related child Entity Resources.
`child`	Link	In case of a relation definition with a single child, contains a Link object referring to the related child Entity Resource.
`self`	Link	Contains a link to the resource containing this object.

Example

{
  "children":[
    {
      "href":"http://<hostname>/entities/2"
    },
    {
      "href":"http://<hostname>/entities/3"
    }
  ],
  "self":{
    "href":"http://<hostname>/entities/1/relations/R1"
  }
}

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