Send Requests

Use the following guidelines when sending requests using the Application Management REST API.

URL Structure

Access the Application Management REST resources using the following URL structure:

https://<subdomain>.<domain>.com:<port>/<resource-path>

Where:

<subdomain.domain>.com:<port> is the host and port where Oracle Identity Governance (OIG) is running.
<resource-path> is the relative path that defines the resource.

Supported Methods

You can perform basic CRUD operations (create, read, update, and delete) on OIG Self Service using standard HTTP method requests, as summarized in the following table.

HTTP Method	Description
`GET`	Retrieves one or more complete or partial resources.
`POST`	Creates new resources or creates search requests, depending on the endpoint.
`PUT`	Modifies a resource by replacing existing attributes with a specified set of replacement attributes (replace). PUT must not be used to create new resources.
`PATCH`	Modifies a resource with a set of client-specified changes (partial updates).
`DELETE`	Deletes a resource.
`OPTIONS`	Default jersey support.
`HEAD`	Default jersey support.

Media Types

The following media types are supported by the Application Management REST API:

application/json
application/xml

Supported Headers

The Application REST API supports the following headers that may be passed in the header section of the HTTP request or response.

Header	Description	Example
`Content-Type`	Media type of the body of the request. Required for POST and PUT requests.	`Content-Type: application/json`
`ResponseTime`	The time in milliseconds to process the request.	`ResponseTime: 1000`