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# GET /v2/parties/participant-id

> Return the identifier of the participant. All horizontally scaled replicas should return the same id. daml-on-kv-ledger: returns an identifier supplied on command line at launch time canton: returns globally unique identifier of the participant

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  <p class="x2mdx-ref-summary">Return the identifier of the participant. All horizontally scaled replicas should return the same id. daml-on-kv-ledger: returns an identifier supplied on command line at launch time canton: returns globally unique identifier of the participant</p>

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    <span class="x2mdx-ref-badge x2mdx-ref-badge--protocol">OpenAPI</span>

    <a class="x2mdx-ref-badge x2mdx-ref-badge--changed" href="#history-updated-3-5">Updated 3.5</a>

    <a class="x2mdx-ref-badge x2mdx-ref-badge--added" href="#history-added-3-4">Added 3.4</a>
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<RequestExample>
  ```bash cURL theme={null}
  curl --request GET \
    --url 'http://localhost:7575/v2/parties/participant-id' \
    --header 'Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN'
  ```

  ```python Python theme={null}
  import json
  import requests

  url = "http://localhost:7575/v2/parties/participant-id"
  headers = {'Authorization': 'Bearer <token>'}
  response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers)

  print(response.text)
  ```

  ```javascript JavaScript theme={null}
  const response = await fetch('http://localhost:7575/v2/parties/participant-id', {
    method: 'GET',
    headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>"
  },
  });

  console.log(await response.text());
  ```

  ```php PHP theme={null}
  <?php
  $curl = curl_init();

  curl_setopt_array($curl, [
      CURLOPT_URL => 'http://localhost:7575/v2/parties/participant-id',
      CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
      CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'GET',
      CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
          "Authorization: Bearer <token>"
      ],
  ]);

  $response = curl_exec($curl);
  echo $response;
  ```

  ```go Go theme={null}
  package main

  import (
    "fmt"
    "io"
    "net/http"
  )

  func main() {
    req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "http://localhost:7575/v2/parties/participant-id", nil)
    req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
    response, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
    defer response.Body.Close()
    body, _ := io.ReadAll(response.Body)
    fmt.Println(string(body))
  }
  ```

  ```java Java theme={null}
  import java.net.URI;
  import java.net.http.HttpClient;
  import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
  import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

  var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
      .uri(URI.create("http://localhost:7575/v2/parties/participant-id"))
      .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
      .method("GET", HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.noBody())
      .build();
  var response = HttpClient.newHttpClient().send(
      request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
  System.out.println(response.body());
  ```

  ```ruby Ruby theme={null}
  require 'net/http'
  require 'uri'

  uri = URI('http://localhost:7575/v2/parties/participant-id')
  request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
  request['Authorization'] = 'Bearer <token>'
  response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port) do |http|
    http.request(request)
  end
  puts response.body
  ```
</RequestExample>

<ResponseExample>
  ```json 200 theme={null}
  {
    "participantId": "<string>"
  }
  ```

  ```text 400 theme={null}
  <string>
  ```

  ```json default theme={null}
  {
    "code": "<string>",
    "cause": "<string>",
    "correlationId": "<string>",
    "traceId": "<string>",
    "context": {},
    "resources": [
      [
        "<string>"
      ]
    ],
    "errorCategory": 123,
    "grpcCodeValue": 123,
    "retryInfo": "<string>",
    "definiteAnswer": false
  }
  ```
</ResponseExample>

## Authorizations

### httpAuth

<ParamField header="Authorization" type="string" required>
  HTTP bearer authentication. Send the token as `Authorization: Bearer &lt;token&gt;`. Ledger API standard JWT token
</ParamField>

### apiKeyAuth

<ParamField header="Sec-WebSocket-Protocol" type="string" required>
  API key authentication in the header. Ledger API standard JWT token (websocket)
</ParamField>

## Responses

### 200

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<ResponseField name="participantId" type="string" required>
  Identifier of the participant, which SHOULD be globally unique. Must be a valid LedgerString (as describe in `value.proto`). Required
</ResponseField>

### 400

Invalid value

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  <span class="x2mdx-ref-badge x2mdx-ref-badge--neutral">text/plain</span>
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<ResponseField name="value" type="string" required />

### default

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<ResponseField name="code" type="string" required />

<ResponseField name="cause" type="string" required />

<ResponseField name="correlationId" type="string" />

<ResponseField name="traceId" type="string" />

<ResponseField name="context" type="Map_String" required />

<ResponseField name="resources" type="Tuple2_String_String[]" />

<ResponseField name="errorCategory" type="integer (int32)" required />

<ResponseField name="grpcCodeValue" type="integer (int32)" />

<ResponseField name="retryInfo" type="string" />

<ResponseField name="definiteAnswer" type="boolean" />

## History

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      <span class="x2mdx-ref-history-event-label">Updated</span>
      <code class="x2mdx-ref-history-event-version">3.5</code>
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    <p class="x2mdx-ref-history-event-detail">The GET /v2/parties/participant-id operation was updated in this snapshot.</p>
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  <div class="x2mdx-ref-history-event x2mdx-ref-history-event--introduced" id="history-added-3-4">
    <div class="x2mdx-ref-history-event-head">
      <span class="x2mdx-ref-history-event-label">Added</span>
      <code class="x2mdx-ref-history-event-version">3.4</code>
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