How to request an accelerated report via REST?

[althomas]

Hi,

We have a requirement to pull data out of a report that they want updated at (near-enough) real time, so we've created a stats table of the data and put it into a report, which has then been accelerated. We want to be able to grab the data via REST so it can be used in a different application we are creating. How is this done?

Currently, if I run the report, I can see the most recent search id and I can see that it has been run based on a summary ID.
In Job Manager, it reports the following:
Search ID: myuser__nobody__search__RMD5a79ee73818f66aa4_at_1507109756_45011
Summary ID: 1F08A505-35F7-44C1-B50E-2D1D9BB70318_search_nobody_NSfd08606a4b07f6bc

If I run (using the search ID):

curl -k -u myuser https://localhost:8089/services/search/jobs/myuser__nobody__search__RMD5a79ee73818f66aa4_at_1507109756_45011

I get results for the most current run, but I don't know if this resultset will update as the underlying data changes

If I run (using the summary ID):

curl -k -u myuser https://localhost:8089/services/search/jobs/1F08A505-35F7-44C1-B50E-2D1D9BB70318_search_nobody_NSfd08606a4b07f6bc/results?count=0

I get a response of: Unknown sid.

Is there an easy way to always request the latest state of the accelerated report?

Thanks!

Best regards,
Alex

[cmerriman]

i think if you use https://localhost:8089/services/saved/searches/{name}/history first, you can grab title out of it and use that in https://localhost:8089/services/search/jobs/{title}

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.0/RESTREF/RESTsearch#saved.2Fsearches.2F.7Bname.7D.2...

[althomas]

This does technically work, but the first one will only return a result if I've manually gone and run the report recently, otherwise there is no search ID.

Having fiddled about with it a bit, the only reliable way I can get a search ID without manually going into the GUI is as follows:
curl -k -u myuser https://localhost:8089/services/search/jobs -d search="| savedsearch my_accelerated_report"

This will return a very simple XML response:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<response>
  <sid>1511349561.1768776</sid>
</response>

And then you can use that SID to get the result set:

curl -k -u myuser https://localhost:8089/services/search/jobs/1511349561.1768776/results

I'm not sure there's an easier way than this after trawling through the documentation for hours.