Automate Domain import via API call

[matkomirak]

Hi guys,

is there any chance this one will see the light any time soon:
ManageIQ/manageiq-api#647
It would be nice to have an option to import the automate domain via api call.

Best regards,
Matko

[Fryguy]

Automate Domain import already exists for git based domains. I didn't realize we didn't have the .zip file based import, so can you open a feature request for that in https://github.com/manageiq/manageiq-automation_engine/issues if it doesn't already exist?

The issue you referenced, ManageIQ/manageiq-api#647, was more about organizing the API for usage by the UI, so if someone wants to create a domain (not import, just create). Unfortunately, we got bogged down on the query side, where the sticking point is that we'd like to avoid modeling the API in a way that creates performance problems since the data is modeled as a tree and creating or walking individual nodes in a tree one-by-one is extremely expensive.

[matkomirak]

Could you please provide me with some example how can I import the automate domain to miq via API call?

[Fryguy]

For git based domains the action is called create_from_git - https://github.com/ManageIQ/manageiq-api/blob/beacc5fc59dbd9555d4c9c65ef9007e77f54c95c/config/api.yml#L300-L301

I can't recall the parameters offhand, and unfortunately it seems it hasn't been documented on the website, but you can look at the specs to understand it better: https://github.com/ManageIQ/manageiq-api/blob/beacc5fc59dbd9555d4c9c65ef9007e77f54c95c/spec/requests/automate_domains_spec.rb

[Fryguy]

I opened ManageIQ/manageiq-documentation#1667 to track adding the documentation