Blockchain across Oracle

Getting the version of the OBCS API

As you can see in the preceding list of available resource paths, we can view the version of the REST API. The returned information is not of interest for our use case, but with this resource we can check whether the REST proxy is online and can process our HTTP requests.

The first HTTP request in the Postman collection calls the {{AcmeProxyHost}}/bcsgw/rest/version endpoint. Notice that it uses the AcmeProxyHost environment variable. Under the hood, this is replaced with the actual value when sending the HTTP request. As you can see in the following screenshot, the request includes an HTTP header for the authorization.

When sending the request with the endpoint available and the correct authorization included ...