Gets information about an application.

Request Syntax

{
   "applicationName": "string"
}

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

Response Syntax

{
   "application": { 
      "applicationId": "string",
      "applicationName": "string",
      "computePlatform": "string",
      "createTime": number,
      "gitHubAccountName": "string",
      "linkedToGitHub": boolean
   }
}

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

Examples

Example

This example illustrates one usage of GetApplication.

Sample Request

POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: codedeploy.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
Accept-Encoding: identity
Content-Length: 45
X-Amz-Target: CodeDeploy_20141006.GetApplication
X-Amz-Date: 20160707T014559Z
User-Agent: aws-cli/1.10.6 Python/2.7.9 Windows/7 botocore/1.3.28
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE/20160707/us-east-1/codedeploy/aws4_request, 
	SignedHeaders=content-type;host;user-agent;x-amz-date;x-amz-target, Signature=39c3b3042cd2aEXAMPLE

{
    "applicationName": "TestApp-us-east-1"
}

Sample Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-amzn-RequestId: 2010bbbd-88df-11e5-9749-bba241db97da
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
Content-Length: 168

{
    "application": {
        "applicationId": "d3be67e5-e7l6-457b-946b-7a457EXAMPLE",
        "applicationName": "TestApp-us-east-1",
        "createTime": 1446229001.211,
        "linkedToGitHub": false
    }
}

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: