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Arie_90212
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Aug 21, 2018

/stats returning JSON nested objects instead of array?

I noticed that requesting a list of virtuals returns a JSON array, while the stats for the same collection returns nested objects. Is this intentional? https://hostname/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual ...
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Satoshi_Toyosa1
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Aug 21, 2018

The endpoint without 

stats
is equivalent to 
tmsh list
: it dumps the configuration information. The endpoint with 
stats
is 
tmsh show
and shows the stat information. They are different commands hence different outputs.

Please refer to pp. 35-38 of iControl REST User Guide Version 13.1 for more information on the statistical output. For those who would like to see example outputs, see iControl REST Cookbook - Virtual Server (ltm virtual).

If you are asking why 

/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual
returns {"items":[vs1object, vs2object, ...]} while 
/mgmt/tm/ltm/virtual/stats
returns {"entries":{vs1statEndpoint: {statsObject1}, vs2statEndpoint:{statsObject2}, ....}, then I imagine that's just an implementation decision, most likely due to the differences between outputs from list/show tmsh commands.