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# Poll async task status

GET https://{tenant_name}.benchling.com/api/v3/tasks/plate-record/transfer-async/{task_id}

Poll status for Asynchronously create destination plate record(s) by transferring content out of existing source plates, alongside a copy of each source holding what remained..

Reference: https://docs.benchling.com/docs/api/benchling-api/plate-record/transferasync-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` (TransferPlateRecordsResult, optional, nullable) — The plate record(s) produced by a transfer.

## Errors

### 400 Plate Record Transfer Async 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 Plate Record Transfer Async 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 Plate Record Transfer Async 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 Plate Record Transfer Async 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)

### 500 Plate Record Transfer Async 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

### TransferPlateRecordsResult

The plate record(s) produced by a transfer.

- `createdPlates` (list of PlateRecordRef, optional) — The destination plate records created by the transfer.
- `decrementedSourcePlates` (list of PlateRecordRef, optional) — Copies of the source plates the transfer drew from, holding what remained after it. The source plates themselves are historical records and are never rewritten. Empty when any drawn-from source well could not say how much it had left, since a partial list would read as the full set of what remains.
- `createdPlateIds` (list of string, optional, deprecated) — Use createdPlates instead, and select the id subfield.

### GeneralErrorDetail

### TooManyRequestsErrorBodyDetail

### InternalServerErrorBodyDetail

### PlateRecordRef

- `__typename` (string, optional)
- `id` (string, optional)

## Examples

**Response**

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

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://{tenant_name}.benchling.com/api/v3/tasks/plate-record/transfer-async/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/plate-record/transfer-async/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);
}
```