JSON Communication
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6.1 About JSON
Target Groups
The intended target groups for this chapter are user interface developers and API
consumers.
Introduction
This is a reference document for RESTful JSON API v1.0(Draft) of ABB Energy
Meter Gateway 1.0.
Current version of API supports following HTTP verbs
• HTTP GET
• HTTP POST
• HTTP PUT
• HTTP DELETE
MIME used with all types of http verbs is
application/json
Authentication
API is hosted by the Gateway Webserver via
https
end point.
Basic authentication mechanism is used for authentication. However all traffic
goes through SSL layers.
Thus all messages should have the following authorization header as shown be-
low:
GET /meter HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Basic XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX=