REST APIs

After you download and deploy models in Maximo® Visual Inspection Edge, you can use REST APIs to call models externally.

For example, you can submit API calls from outside the application to use models to classify images or detect objects in images.

REST API documentation

The REST API documentation for Maximo Visual Inspection Edge is available on the server where you installed the application. To see the documentation, enter the following URL into your browser:

https://<host name:port number>/swagger/index.html

Viewing the REST API

To view the REST API, put the Maximo Visual Inspection Edge server into development mode and restart the vision-edge-controller container.

Go to the vision-edge.properties file.

 <install root>/volume/run/var/config/vision-edge.properties

Add the development mode setting.

 DEVMODE=true

Run the restartedge.sh script.

Note: For more information about development mode on the Maximo Visual Inspection Edge server, see Development Mode and Nondefault Configurations in the Maximo Visual Inspection EdgeInception Internals documentation.