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# Poll async task status

GET https://{tenant_name}.benchling.com/api/v3/tasks/container/transfer/{task_id}

Poll status for Transfer contents from sources into destination containers. Each row specifies a destination container and exactly one source (container or entity), the quantity to transfer, an optional final quantity to dilute the destination to, and an optional source concentration override..

Reference: https://docs.benchling.com/docs/api/benchling-api/container/transfer-get

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — Bearer authentication of the form `Bearer <token>`, where token is your auth token.

## Request

### Path parameters

- `task_id` (string, required) — ID of the asynchronous task to poll.

## Response

### 200

OK

- `message` (string, required)
- `status` (enum, required)
  - Allowed values: `NOT_STARTED`, `IN_PROGRESS`, `COMPLETED`, `FAILED`
- `result` (TransferOutput, optional, nullable) — Result of a Container.transfer call: the IDs of the destination containers that were updated.

## Errors

### 400 Container Transfer Get Request Bad Request Error

Bad Request

- `detail` (GeneralErrorDetail, required, nullable)
- `instance` (string, required)
- `status` (integer, required)
- `title` (string, required, nullable)
- `type` (string, required)
- `invalidId` (string, optional)

### 403 Container Transfer Get Request Forbidden Error

Forbidden

- `detail` (GeneralErrorDetail, required, nullable)
- `instance` (string, required)
- `status` (integer, required)
- `title` (string, required, nullable)
- `type` (string, required)
- `invalidId` (string, optional)

### 404 Container Transfer Get Request Not Found Error

Not Found

- `detail` (GeneralErrorDetail, required, nullable)
- `instance` (string, required)
- `status` (integer, required)
- `title` (string, required, nullable)
- `type` (string, required)
- `invalidId` (string, optional)

### 429 Container Transfer Get Request Too Many Requests Error

Too Many Requests

- `detail` (TooManyRequestsErrorBodyDetail, required, nullable)
- `instance` (string, required)
- `status` (integer, required)
- `title` (string, required, nullable)
- `type` (string, required)
- `invalidId` (string, optional)
- `violated-policies` (list of enum, optional) — The budget policies that rejected the request, in canonical order: `user`, `integration`, then `tenant`.
  - Allowed values: `user`, `integration`, `tenant`

### 500 Container Transfer Get Request Internal Server Error

Internal Server Error

- `detail` (InternalServerErrorBodyDetail, required, nullable)
- `instance` (string, required)
- `status` (integer, required)
- `title` (string, required, nullable)
- `type` (string, required)
- `errorId` (string, optional)

## Types

### TransferOutput

Result of a Container.transfer call: the IDs of the destination containers that were updated.

- `destinationContainerIds` (list of string, optional)

### GeneralErrorDetail

### TooManyRequestsErrorBodyDetail

### InternalServerErrorBodyDetail

## Examples

**Response**

```json
{
  "message": "message",
  "status": "NOT_STARTED",
  "result": {
    "destinationContainerIds": [
      "destinationContainerIds"
    ]
  }
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://{tenant_name}.benchling.com/api/v3/tasks/container/transfer/task_id"

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'https://{tenant_name}.benchling.com/api/v3/tasks/container/transfer/task_id';
const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```