Is it possible to export/import custom smart rest templates via rest/http

[Lorn_Kjewlsvar]

Hello cumulocity community,

What product/components do you use and which version/fix level are you on?

cumulocity iot platform 1011.0.12, smart rest templates 2.0

Is your question related to the free trial, or to a production (customer) instance?

customer instance

What are you trying to achieve? Please describe it in detail.

We want to be able to export settings and configurations from a super tenant and import them on any sub tenant. We have created multiple scripts to export and import configurations via curl. For smart rest templates I only found the export/import function in the device management app, but no http/rest endpoints for that. I also know it is possible to register new smart rest templates via rest. But we also need them to be exported via rest.

greetings and thanks in advance

[Stefan_Witschel]

Hi Lorn,

the export functions seems to be an UI-only functionality.
The good news is that it can be easily exported and imported using the inventory API:

GET {{url}}/inventory/managedObjects?type=c8y_SmartRest2Template

will give you all smart rest templates.
To import them you need to remove all properties but to keep “name”, “type”, “__externalId” and “com_cumulocity_model_smartrest_csv_CsvSmartRestTemplate”

POST {url}}/inventory/managedObjects
Body:
{
  "name": "customEvent",
  "type": "c8y_SmartRest2Template",
  "com_cumulocity_model_smartrest_csv_CsvSmartRestTemplate": {
    "requestTemplates": [],
    "responseTemplates": []
  },
  "__externalId": "test123"
}

[Tristan_Bastian]

Note that you also have to assign the externalId of type c8y_SmartRest2DeviceIdentifier to the newly created managedObject.
So after the POST request to the inventory from above you would have to create the externalId for that managedObject:

POST {{url}}/identity/globalIds/{{idOfCreatedManagedObject}}/externalIds
Body:
{
	"externalId": "<theValueFrom__externalIdField>",
    "type": "c8y_SmartRest2DeviceIdentifier"
}

[Lorn_Kjewlsvar]

Hello Stefan and hello Tristan,

thank you for your answers. I followed the first steps to get the information via
GET {{url}}/inventory/managedObjects?type=c8y_SmartRest2Template

I could not find any __externalId property in the data I received. Can you clearify if I really need the externalId and how to get it?

I sent the data per Post request to the inventory without specifying the externalId. Under Device Management > Device types > SmartREST Templates I saw that the templates where successfully imported.

Edit: I saw that the ID of the SmartREST template was not present. It was neccessary to set a POST request against POST {{url}}/identity/globalIds/{{idOfCreatedManagedObject}}/externalIds.

greetings