topic Re: Cisco ISE API JSON response in Network Access Control

Cisco ISE API JSON response

DanieloUno — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 17:52:26 GMT

Hello there, I am using ISE API to get or post requests to it and I know that ISE's default response body is in XML format, I just wonder if I can just change that to JSON, (I know that I can set Accept header to application/json to accomplish that but I am in a situation I cant set the header parameters)... if there is a way please tell me.

Re: Cisco ISE API JSON response

Ambuj M — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 18:00:46 GMT

The only API response format is XML - JSON is not supported! Any conversion from XML to JSON or other format must be done by you.

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Re: Cisco ISE API JSON response

thomas — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 22:35:09 GMT

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Cisco+ISE+API+JSON+response

The #1 hit is which shows how to get JSON out of ISE. Headers are how you request content of a specific format (XML|JSON) however the ISE MNT APIs are XML only still.

You could try to pipe XML output through a tool like yq but it's not pretty :

curl --insecure --location \ --header 'Accept: application/xml' \ --user $ISE_REST_USERNAME:$ISE_REST_PASSWORD \ --request GET https://$ISE_HOSTNAME/ers/config/endpoint \ | yq -p xml

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