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Get Legal Hold Policy

Guides Legal Holds Get Legal Hold Policy
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Get Legal Hold Policy

To get the information for a specific Legal Hold policy that has been created in an enterprise, call the GET /legal_hold_policies/:id API endpoint with the id of the policy.

cURL
curl -i -X GET "https://api.box.com/2.0/legal_hold_policies/324432" \
     -H "authorization: Bearer <ACCESS_TOKEN>"
.NET
BoxLegalHoldPolicy policy = await client.LegalHoldPoliciesManager.GetLegalHoldPolicyAsync("11111");
Java
BoxLegalHoldPolicy policy = new BoxLegalHoldPolicy(api, id);
BoxLegalHoldPolicy.Info policyInfo = policy.getInfo();
Python
legal_hold_policy = client.legal_hold_policy(policy_id='12345').get()
print(f'The "{legal_hold_policy.policy_name}" policy is {legal_hold_policy.status}')
Node
client.legalHoldPolicies.get('11111')
	.then(policy => {
		/* policy -> {
			type: 'legal_hold_policy',
			id: '11111',
			policy_name: 'IRS Audit',
			description: '',
			status: 'active',
			assignment_counts: { user: 1, folder: 0, file: 0, file_version: 0 },
			created_by: 
			{ type: 'user',
				id: '22222',
				name: 'Example User',
				login: 'user@example.com' },
			created_at: '2016-05-18T10:28:45-07:00',
			modified_at: '2016-05-18T11:25:59-07:00',
			deleted_at: null,
			filter_started_at: '2016-05-17T01:00:00-07:00',
			filter_ended_at: '2016-05-21T01:00:00-07:00' }
		*/
	});
iOS
client.legalHolds.get(policyId: "22222", fields: ["name", "created_at"]) { (result: Result<LegalHoldPolicy, BoxSDKError>) in
    guard case let .success(policy) = result else {
        print("Error getting policy information")
        return
    }
    print("Legal hold policy \(policy.id) was created at \(policy.createdAt)")
}
TypeScript (Beta)
await client.legalHoldPolicies.getLegalHoldPolicyById(legalHoldPolicyId);
Python (Beta)
client.legal_hold_policies.get_legal_hold_policy_by_id(legal_hold_policy_id)
.NET (Beta)
await client.LegalHoldPolicies.GetLegalHoldPolicyByIdAsync(legalHoldPolicyId: legalHoldPolicyId);

Required Scopes

Before using any of the Legal Hold APIs, an application must have the right scopes enabled. See Required Scopes for more details.