SoftLayer Account::getBalance

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getBalance is a member of the SoftLayer_Account service.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Return Type 3 Headers 3.1 Required Headers 3.2 Optional Headers

Overview

Retrieve the account balance of a SoftLayer customer account. An account's balance is the amount of money owed to SoftLayer by the account holder, returned as a floating point number with two decimal places, measured in US Dollars ($USD). A negative account balance means the account holder has overpaid and is owed money by SoftLayer.

Return Type

getBalance returns the decimal data type.

Headers

Required Headers

getBalance requires the following headers:

• authenticate
• SoftLayer_AccountInitParameters

Optional Headers

getBalance may use the following headers:

• SoftLayer_AccountObjectMask