Instances can be accessed and modified through this API using four services: GET, POST, PUT, and PATCH. These four services allow for the retrieval, creation, complete update, and partial update of Instances.

Each function returns a JSON Instance object. An Instance object has these attributes:

Since plugins can have multiple operations, a plugin id is not enough to determine which plugin is desired. To designate a plugin, both an owner id and property set name must be included.

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GET

There are two implementations of GET. One will find an Instance with the given Id and return the JSON representation of the Instance. The other will find a list of Instances matching the parameters supplied to it.

GET by ID

This GET service will find an Instance with the given Id and return the JSON representation of the object.

{
	"description": "GET example description",
	"environments": [11001],
	"workflows": [],
	"instanceId": 11004,
	"instanceName": "GET Example Name",
	"isActive": true, "plugins": [],
	"instanceCode": "GETEXAMPLECODE",
	"groupCode": "GET example group",
	"subGroupCode": "GET example sub group",
	"isDeploymentTarget": false
}

{
	"description": "GET example description",
	"environments": [11001],
	"workflows": [],
	"instanceId": 11004,
	"instanceName": "GET Example Name",
	"isActive": true, "plugins": [],
	"instanceCode": "GETEXAMPLECODE",
	"groupCode": "GET example group",
	"subGroupCode": "GET example sub group",
	"isDeploymentTarget": false
}

GET by Query Parameters

This GET service will return a list of Instances in the form of JSON objects based on the query parameters instanceCode, instanceName, groupCode, and subGroupCode. Instances are only returned if they match ALL of the specified query parameters. If no query parameters are given this request will return the entire list of Instances. The instanceName parameter returns instances that contain the specified parameter. The other parameters must be equal to the instance.

Parameters

Response Codes

Example

Output when the Group Code was made "Group" through http://host:port/flexdeploy/rest/topology/instance?groupCode=Group

[
	{
		"description": "GET example description",
		"environments": [10001],
		"workflows": [10001],
		"instanceId": 10000,
		"instanceName": "GET Example Name",
		"isActive": true,
		"plugins": [{"propertySetName":"pluginName","ownerId":12345}],
		"instanceCode": "GETEXAMPLECODE",
		"groupCode": "Group",
		"subGroupCode": "GET example sub group",
		"isDeploymentTarget": false
	},
	{ 
		"description": "GET example 2 description", 
		"environments": [10001, 10002, 10003], 
		"workflows": [10001, 10002, 10003], 
		"instanceId": 10012, 
		"instanceName": "GET Example 2 Name", 
		"isActive": true, 
		"plugins": [], 
		"instanceCode": "GETEXAMPLECODE2", 
		"groupCode": "group", 
		"subGroupCode": "GET example 2 sub group", 
		"isDeploymentTarget": true
	}
]

POST

The POST service will create a new instance with the same attributes as the given JSON object. It returns the JSON representation of the Instance that was just created with an updated ID attribute.

Parameters

*defaults to true if nothing is passed

Response Codes

Example

If the POST receives the following JSON instance object,

{
	"description": "POST example description",
	"environments": [11001],
	"workflows": [],
	"instanceId": 1,
	"instanceName": "POST Example Name",
	"isActive": true,
	"plugins": [],
	"instanceCode": "POSTEXAMPLECODE",
	"groupCode": "POST example group",
	"subGroupCode": "POST example sub group",
	"isDeploymentTarget": false
}

the following Instance will be created in the database. Notice the updated Instance Id field.

{
	"description": "POST example description",
	"environments": [11001],
	"workflows": [],
	"instanceId": 11004,
	"instanceName": "POST Example Name",
	"isActive": true,
	"plugins": [],
	"instanceCode": "POSTEXAMPLECODE",
	"groupCode": "POST example group",
	"subGroupCode": "POST example sub group",
	"isDeploymentTarget": false
}

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PUT

This PUT service will update all attributes of an Instance with the given Id based on the attributes of the supplied JSON object.

{
	"description": "Example description",
	"environments": [],
	"workflows": [],
	"instanceId": 11104,
	"instanceName": "Example Name",
	"isActive": false,
	"plugins": [],
	"instanceCode": "EXAMPLECODE",
	"groupCode": "Group",
	"subGroupCode": "Sub Group",
	"isDeploymentTarget": false
}

{
	"description": "PUT description",
	"environments": [11001],
	"workflows": [11104],
	"instanceId": 1,
	"instanceName": "PUT Name",
	"isActive": true,
	"plugins": [],
	"instanceCode": "PUTCODE",
	"groupCode": "PUT group",
	"subGroupCode": "PUT sub group",
	"isDeploymentTarget": true
}

{
	"description": "PUT description",
	"environments": [11001],
	"workflows": [11104],
	"instanceId": 11104,
	"instanceName": "PUT Name",
	"isActive": true,
	"plugins": [],
	"instanceCode": "PUTCODE",
	"groupCode": "PUT group",
	"subGroupCode": "PUT sub group",
	"isDeploymentTarget": true
}

PATCH

This PATCH service will update the information of the Instance of the specified Id with the non-null parameters of the JSON. The parameters that are null will not be changed in the Instance.

{
	"description": "Example description",
	"environments": [11001],
	"workflows": [],
	"instanceId": 11104,
	"instanceName": "Example Name",
	"isActive": false,
	"plugins": [],
	"instanceCode": "EXAMPLECODE",
	"groupCode": "Group",
	"subGroupCode": "Sub Group",
	"isDeploymentTarget": false
}

{
	"description": "PATCH example description",
	"environments": null,
	"workflows": null,
	"instanceId": null,
	"instanceName": null,
	"isActive": null,
	"plugins": null,
	"instanceCode": "PATCHEXAMPLECODE",
	"groupCode": null,
	"subGroupCode": null,
	"isDeploymentTarget": null
}

{
	"description": "PATCH example description",
	"environments": [11001],
	"workflows": [],
	"instanceId": 11104,
	"instanceName": "Example Name",
	"isActive": false,
	"plugins": [],
	"instanceCode": "PATCHEXAMPLECODE",
	"groupCode": "Group",
	"subGroupCode": "Sub Group",
	"isDeploymentTarget": false
}