Fetching a usage report

1. Authenticate to the cloud platform via the Python shell.

   The following variables should be available now:

   >>> base_url  # the base URL of the API
   'https://eu2-cloud.acronis.com/api/2'
   >>> auth  # the 'Authorization' header value with the access token
   {'Authorization': 'Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6ImMwMD...'}
   >>> tenant_id  # the UUID of the tenant to which the token provides access
   'ede9f834-70b3-476c-83d9-736f9f8c7dae'
   

2. Assign the report_id variable the UUID of a report created via the API or a report found in tenant reports:

   >>> report_id = created_report_id
   >>> report_id
   '20dffb36-d77b-45c6-b2fa-39276e98d5fc'
   

3. Send a GET request to the /reports/{report_id} endpoint:

   >>> response = requests.get(f'{base_url}/reports/{report_id}', headers=auth)
   

4. Check the status code of the response:

   >>> response.status_code
   200
   

   Status code 200 means that the request was successful.

   A different status code means that an error has occurred. For the details, refer to “Status and error codes”.

   Also, the response body contains the report data formatted as a JSON text. When converted to an object, it will look as follows:

   >>> pprint.pprint(response.json())
   {'generation_date': '2017-05-08',
    'id': '20dffb36-d77b-45c6-b2fa-39276e98d5fc',
    'parameters': {'formats': ['csv', 'html'],
                    'kind': 'usage_summary',
                    'level': 'accounts',
                    'period': {'end': '2017-05-07', 'start': '2017-05-01'},
                    'tenant_id': 'ede9f834-70b3-476c-83d9-736f9f8c7dae'},
    'recipients': ['ca451758-b48a-45d9-9ae6-8f1059f67619',
                    'ab00e527-219b-481b-b01b-311b5be0ed3c'],
    'result_action': 'send',
    'schedule': {'enabled': True, 'type': 'once'},
    'version': 1}
   

5. Store the UUID of the report in a variable:

   >>> report_id = response.json()['id']
   >>> report_id
   '20dffb36-d77b-45c6-b2fa-39276e98d5fc'
   

6. [Optional] Store the revision number of the report, in case if you need to delete it:

   >>> version = response.json()['version']
   >>> version
   1