Method: forwardingRules.get

• HTTP request
• Path parameters
• Request body
• Response body
  • JSON representation
• Authorization Scopes
• IAM Permissions

Returns the specified ForwardingRule resource.

HTTP request

GET https://www.googleapis.com/compute/beta/projects/{project}/regions/{region}/forwardingRules/{resourceId}

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
project	string Project ID for this request.
region	string Name of the region scoping this request.
resourceId	string Name of the ForwardingRule resource to return.

Request body

The request body must be empty.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:

A ForwardingRule resource. A ForwardingRule resource specifies which pool of target virtual machines to forward a packet to if it matches the given [IPAddress, IPProtocol, ports] tuple.

JSON representation

{ "id": string, "creationTimestamp": string, "name": string, "description": string, "region": string, "IPAddress": string, "IPProtocol": enum, "portRange": string, "ports": [ string ], "target": string, "selfLink": string, "loadBalancingScheme": enum, "subnetwork": string, "network": string, "backendService": string, "serviceLabel": string, "serviceName": string, "networkTier": enum, "labels": { string: string, ... }, "labelFingerprint": string, "ipVersion": enum, "fingerprint": string, "allPorts": boolean, "allowGlobalAccess": boolean, "kind": string }

Fields
id	string (fixed64 format) [Output Only] The unique identifier for the resource. This identifier is defined by the server.
creationTimestamp	string [Output Only] Creation timestamp in RFC3339 text format.
name	string Name of the resource; provided by the client when the resource is created. The name must be 1-63 characters long, and comply with RFC1035. Specifically, the name must be 1-63 characters long and match the regular expression [a-z]([-a-z0-9]*[a-z0-9])? which means the first character must be a lowercase letter, and all following characters must be a dash, lowercase letter, or digit, except the last character, which cannot be a dash.
description	string An optional description of this resource. Provide this property when you create the resource.
region	string [Output Only] URL of the region where the regional forwarding rule resides. This field is not applicable to global forwarding rules. You must specify this field as part of the HTTP request URL. It is not settable as a field in the request body.
IPAddress	string The IP address that this forwarding rule is serving on behalf of. Addresses are restricted based on the forwarding rule's load balancing scheme (EXTERNAL or INTERNAL) and scope (global or regional). When the load balancing scheme is EXTERNAL, for global forwarding rules, the address must be a global IP, and for regional forwarding rules, the address must live in the same region as the forwarding rule. If this field is empty, an ephemeral IPv4 address from the same scope (global or regional) will be assigned. A regional forwarding rule supports IPv4 only. A global forwarding rule supports either IPv4 or IPv6. When the load balancing scheme is INTERNAL_SELF_MANAGED, this must be a URL reference to an existing Address resource ( internal regional static IP address), with a purpose of GCE_END_POINT and addressType of INTERNAL. When the load balancing scheme is INTERNAL, this can only be an RFC 1918 IP address belonging to the network/subnet configured for the forwarding rule. By default, if this field is empty, an ephemeral internal IP address will be automatically allocated from the IP range of the subnet or network configured for this forwarding rule. An address can be specified either by a literal IP address or a URL reference to an existing Address resource. The following examples are all valid: 100.1.2.3 https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/project/regions/region/addresses/address projects/project/regions/region/addresses/address regions/region/addresses/address global/addresses/address address
IPProtocol	enum The IP protocol to which this rule applies. Valid options are TCP, UDP, ESP, AH, SCTP or ICMP. When the load balancing scheme is INTERNAL, only TCP and UDP are valid. When the load balancing scheme is INTERNAL_SELF_MANAGED, only TCPis valid.
portRange	string This field is used along with the target field for TargetHttpProxy, TargetHttpsProxy, TargetSslProxy, TargetTcpProxy, TargetVpnGateway, TargetPool, TargetInstance. Applicable only when IPProtocol is TCP, UDP, or SCTP, only packets addressed to ports in the specified range will be forwarded to target. Forwarding rules with the same [IPAddress, IPProtocol] pair must have disjoint port ranges. Some types of forwarding target have constraints on the acceptable ports: TargetHttpProxy: 80, 8080 TargetHttpsProxy: 443 TargetTcpProxy: 25, 43, 110, 143, 195, 443, 465, 587, 700, 993, 995, 1688, 1883, 5222 TargetSslProxy: 25, 43, 110, 143, 195, 443, 465, 587, 700, 993, 995, 1688, 1883, 5222 TargetVpnGateway: 500, 4500 @pattern: \d+(?:-\d+)?
ports[]	string This field is used along with the backendService field for internal load balancing. When the load balancing scheme is INTERNAL, a list of ports can be configured, for example, ['80'], ['8000','9000'] etc. Only packets addressed to these ports will be forwarded to the backends configured with this forwarding rule. You may specify a maximum of up to 5 ports.
target	string The URL of the target resource to receive the matched traffic. For regional forwarding rules, this target must live in the same region as the forwarding rule. For global forwarding rules, this target must be a global load balancing resource. The forwarded traffic must be of a type appropriate to the target object. For INTERNAL_SELF_MANAGED load balancing, only HTTP and HTTPS targets are valid.
selfLink	string [Output Only] Server-defined URL for the resource.
loadBalancingScheme	enum This signifies what the ForwardingRule will be used for and can only take the following values: INTERNAL, INTERNAL_SELF_MANAGED, EXTERNAL. The value of INTERNAL means that this will be used for Internal Network Load Balancing (TCP, UDP). The value of INTERNAL_SELF_MANAGED means that this will be used for Internal Global HTTP(S) LB. The value of EXTERNAL means that this will be used for External Load Balancing (HTTP(S) LB, External TCP/UDP LB, SSL Proxy)
subnetwork	string This field is only used for INTERNAL load balancing. For internal load balancing, this field identifies the subnetwork that the load balanced IP should belong to for this Forwarding Rule. If the network specified is in auto subnet mode, this field is optional. However, if the network is in custom subnet mode, a subnetwork must be specified.
network	string This field is not used for external load balancing. For INTERNAL and INTERNAL_SELF_MANAGED load balancing, this field identifies the network that the load balanced IP should belong to for this Forwarding Rule. If this field is not specified, the default network will be used.
backendService	string This field is only used for INTERNAL load balancing. For internal load balancing, this field identifies the BackendService resource to receive the matched traffic.
serviceLabel	string An optional prefix to the service name for this Forwarding Rule. If specified, will be the first label of the fully qualified service name. The label must be 1-63 characters long, and comply with RFC1035. Specifically, the label must be 1-63 characters long and match the regular expression [a-z]([-a-z0-9]*[a-z0-9])? which means the first character must be a lowercase letter, and all following characters must be a dash, lowercase letter, or digit, except the last character, which cannot be a dash. This field is only used for internal load balancing.
serviceName	string [Output Only] The internal fully qualified service name for this Forwarding Rule. This field is only used for internal load balancing.
networkTier	enum This signifies the networking tier used for configuring this load balancer and can only take the following values: PREMIUM , STANDARD. For regional ForwardingRule, the valid values are PREMIUM and STANDARD. For GlobalForwardingRule, the valid value is PREMIUM. If this field is not specified, it is assumed to be PREMIUM. If IPAddress is specified, this value must be equal to the networkTier of the Address.
labels	map (key: string, value: string) Labels to apply to this resource. These can be later modified by the setLabels method. Each label key/value pair must comply with RFC1035. Label values may be empty. An object containing a list of "key": value pairs. Example: { "name": "wrench", "mass": "1.3kg", "count": "3" }.
labelFingerprint	string (bytes format) A fingerprint for the labels being applied to this resource, which is essentially a hash of the labels set used for optimistic locking. The fingerprint is initially generated by Compute Engine and changes after every request to modify or update labels. You must always provide an up-to-date fingerprint hash in order to update or change labels, otherwise the request will fail with error 412 conditionNotMet. To see the latest fingerprint, make a get() request to retrieve a ForwardingRule. A base64-encoded string.
ipVersion	enum The IP Version that will be used by this forwarding rule. Valid options are IPV4 or IPV6. This can only be specified for an external global forwarding rule.
fingerprint	string (bytes format) Fingerprint of this resource. A hash of the contents stored in this object. This field is used in optimistic locking. This field will be ignored when inserting a ForwardingRule. Include the fingerprint in patch request to ensure that you do not overwrite changes that were applied from another concurrent request. To see the latest fingerprint, make a get() request to retrieve a ForwardingRule. A base64-encoded string.
allPorts	boolean This field is used along with the backendService field for internal load balancing or with the target field for internal TargetInstance. This field cannot be used with port or portRange fields. When the load balancing scheme is INTERNAL and protocol is TCP/UDP, specify this field to allow packets addressed to any ports will be forwarded to the backends configured with this forwarding rule.
allowGlobalAccess	boolean This field is used along with the backendService field for internal load balancing or with the target field for internal TargetInstance. If the field is set to TRUE, clients can access ILB from all regions. Otherwise only allows access from clients in the same region as the internal load balancer.
kind	string [Output Only] Type of the resource. Always compute#forwardingRule for Forwarding Rule resources.

Authorization Scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

In addition to any permissions specified on the fields above, authorization requires one or more of the following Google IAM permissions:

• compute.forwardingRules.get

To find predefined roles that contain those permissions, see Compute Engine IAM Roles.