List available sub-resources for provider resource type

Question

I'm attempting to gather a full JSON representation of my Azure resources in a given subscription, but can't figure out how I enumerate the available sub-resources for a given resource type.

For example, I can get the Microsoft.Web/sites/{name} resource, but nothing in that response tells me that Microsoft.Web/sites/{name}/config exists. Neither can I find any reference to the /config resource in the Provider object.

Azure Resource Explorer seems to be enumerating them dynamically with very little performance overhead, so I believe it's possible to do this. I just can't figure out how. Examples from NodeJS using the azure-arm-resource nom package:

// Returns a data structure, but nothing about subtypes.
let p = client.providers.get("Microsoft.Web");

// Contains the resource, but not the resources subtypes (e.g. config/appsettings
let r = client.resources.getById(resourceId, apiVersion);

I'm looking for something in the APIs that will give me an array of subtypes; in the case of Microsoft.Web/sites, that would be something like ["config", "containerlogs", "diagnostics"...] etc.

Ideally. My project is in Node and Typescript at the moment. Having said that, if you can answer how to enumerate the sub resources via REST, .NET, or any other SDK then I should be able to figure it out in Node. — Rhysk

4c74356b41 4c74356b41 · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-04T05:35:06

This would be the call you are looking for:

https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/xxx/providers/Microsoft.Web?api-version=2019-05-10

It return something like this:

{
    "resourceTypes": [
        {
            "resourceType": "components",
            "locations": [ xxx ],
            "apiVersions": [ yyy ],
        },
        xxx,
        yyy
    ]
}

So you need to examine the output of your call more carefully. or just do a plain rest request and parse the output. but in all honesty, components() do not change all that much, you might as well hardcode the list.

List available sub-resources for provider resource type

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