Common resource fields

This page describes the common attributes of Arvados resources.

Resource

Attribute	Type	Description	Example
uuid	string	universally unique object identifier, set on create	mk2qn-4zz18-w3anr2hk2wgfpuo
owner_uuid	string	UUID of owner (must be a User or Group), set on create, controls who may access the resource, ownership may be changed explicitly with update, see permission model for details.	mk2qn-tpzed-a4lcehql0dv2u25
created_at	datetime	When resource was created, set on create	2013-01-21T22:17:39Z
modified_by_client_uuid	string	API client software which most recently modified the resource, set on create and update	mk2qn-ozdt8-vq8l5qkzj7pr7h7
modified_by_user_uuid	string	Authenticated user, on whose behalf the client was acting when modifying the resource, set on create and update	mk2qn-tpzed-a4lcehql0dv2u25
modified_at	datetime	When resource was last modified, set on create and update	2013-01-25T22:29:32Z
href	string	a URL that can be used to address this resource
kind	string	arvados#{resource_type}	arvados#collection
etag	string	The ETag1 of the resource	1xlmizzjq7wro3dlb2dirf505

Object UUID

Each object is assigned a UUID. This has the format aaaaa-bbbbb-ccccccccccccccc.

1. The first field (aaaaa in the example) is the site prefix. This is unique to a specific Arvados installation.
2. The second field (bbbbb in the example) is the object type.
3. The third field (ccccccccccccccc in the example) uniquely identifies the object.

Timestamps

All Arvados timestamps follow ISO 8601 datetime format with fractional seconds (microsecond precision). All timestamps are UTC. Date format: YYYY-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS.SSSSZ example date: 2016-11-08T21:38:24.124834000Z.

ETags

¹ Each response includes an ETag, a string which changes when the resource changes. Clients can use this to check whether a resource has changed since they last retrieved it. If a previous ETag is provided along with a request, and the resource has not changed since, the server may return a “not modified” response.

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