Node-RED block in Snap4City Microservice library node-red-contrib-snap4city-user is "iotdirectory-get-device">
    <p>It allows to retrieve the device information from the iotdirectory</p>

    <h3>Inputs</h3>
    A JSON with these parameters:

    <dl class="message-properties">
        <dt>cbname
            <span class="property-type">string</span>
        </dt>
        <dd>The name of the context broker that hold the device you want to retrieve. It can be passed in <code>msg.payload.cbname</code></dd>
        <dt>devicename
            <span class="property-type">string</span>
        </dt>
        <dd>The name of the device you want to retrieve. It can be passed in <code>msg.payload.devicename</code></dd>
        <dt>service
            <span class="property-type">string</span>
        </dt>
        <dd>The name of the service the device is stored, in case of Orion w/MultiService (optional). It can be passed in <code>msg.payload.service</code></dd>		
		<dt>servicepath
            <span class="property-type">string</span>
        </dt>
        <dd>The name of the Service Path the device is stored, in case of Orion w/MultiService (optional). It can be passed in <code>msg.payload.servicepath</code></dd>		
    </dl>

    <h3>Outputs</h3>
    <dl class="message-properties">
        <dd> Returns an array containing the information of the device</dd>
    </dl>

    <h3>Details</h3>
    <p>The node can receive a JSON with the parameters described in the Inputs section and with them generate the output JSON.
        If the values are not present in the input JSON, these are read by those in the configuration. If they are not present
        in either part, an error is generated for the necessary parameters.</p>