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# Looking up contract data by contract ID

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  <h1 class="x2mdx-ref-title">Looking up contract data by contract ID</h1>

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

    <span class="x2mdx-ref-badge x2mdx-ref-badge--added">Since 3.4</span>

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Looking up contract data by contract ID. This endpoint is experimental / alpha, therefore no backwards compatibility is guaranteed. This endpoint must not be used to look up contracts which entered the participant via party replication or repair service.

## Protocol Details

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    <span class="x2mdx-ref-meta-value">postV2ContractsContract-by-id</span>
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## Inputs

### Request body

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<ParamField body="contractId" type="string" required>
  The ID of the contract. Must be a valid LedgerString (as described in `value.proto`). Required
</ParamField>

<ParamField body="queryingParties" type="string[]">
  The list of querying parties The stakeholders of the referenced contract must have an intersection with any of these parties to return the result. If no querying\_parties specified, all possible contracts could be returned. Optional: can be empty
</ParamField>

## Outputs

### 200

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<ResponseField name="createdEvent" type="CreatedEvent" required>
  Records that a contract has been created, and choices may now be exercised on it.
</ResponseField>

### 400

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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">Changed</span>
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    <p class="x2mdx-ref-history-event-detail">The POST /v2/contracts/contract-by-id operation changed in this snapshot.</p>
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      <span class="x2mdx-ref-history-event-label">Introduced</span>
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<RequestExample>
  ```bash Request theme={null}
  curl --request POST \
    --url 'http://localhost:7575/v2/contracts/contract-by-id' \
    --header 'Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN' \
    --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    --data '{"contractId":"string","queryingParties":["string"]}'
  ```
</RequestExample>

<ResponseExample>
  ```json 200 response theme={null}
  {
    "createdEvent": {
      "offset": 0,
      "nodeId": 0,
      "contractId": "string",
      "templateId": "string",
      "contractKey": "string",
      "contractKeyHash": "string",
      "createArgument": "string",
      "createdEventBlob": "string",
      "interfaceViews": [
        {}
      ],
      "witnessParties": [
        "string"
      ],
      "signatories": [
        "string"
      ],
      "observers": [
        "string"
      ],
      "createdAt": "string",
      "packageName": "string",
      "representativePackageId": "string",
      "acsDelta": false
    }
  }
  ```

  ```json default response theme={null}
  {
    "code": "string",
    "cause": "string",
    "correlationId": "string",
    "traceId": "string",
    "context": {},
    "resources": [
      [
        "string"
      ]
    ],
    "errorCategory": 0,
    "grpcCodeValue": 0,
    "retryInfo": "string",
    "definiteAnswer": false
  }
  ```
</ResponseExample>