Application (POST)

Deploys an application.

Description

It first checks whether the input application is valid. Then, it transfers the application to the database and to the runtime.

This transaction can run synchronously or asynchronously. If processed asynchronously, the REST service returns before the transaction is completed. In this case, you can query the transaction result later with the transaction REST service.

Roles

Users in the following roles are authorized to perform this operation:

worklightadmin
worklightdeployer

Method

POST

Path

/management-apis/1.0/runtimes/runtime-name/applications

Example

https://www.example.com/worklightadmin/management-apis/1.0/runtimes/myruntime/applications?async=false&locale=de_DE

Path Parameters

runtime-name: The name of the runtime. This is the context root of the runtime web application, without the leading slash.

Query Parameters

Query parameters are optional.

async: Whether the transaction is processed synchronously or asynchronously. Allowed values are true and false. The default is synchronous processing.
locale: The locale used for error messages.

Consumes

multipart/form-data

Produces

application/json, application/xml, text/xml, text/html

Response

The metadata of the deployed application.

JSON Example

{
  "ok" : false,
  "productVersion" : "7.0.0",
  "transaction" : {
    "appServerId" : "Tomcat",
    "description" : {
      "appVersionsAlreadyDeployed" : [
        {
          "applicationName" : "myapplication",
          "environment" : "android",
          "version" : "1.0",
        },
        ...
      ],
      "appVersionsDeployed" : [
        {
          "applicationName" : "myapplication",
          "environment" : "android",
          "version" : "1.0",
        },
        ...
      ],
      "filename" : "myapplication.wlapp",
    },
    "errors" : [
      {
        "details" : "An internal error occured.",
      },
      ...
    ],
    "id" : 1,
    "project" : {
      "name" : "myproject",
    },
    "status" : "FAILURE",
    "timeCreated" : "2014-04-13T00:18:36.979Z",
    "timeUpdated" : "2014-04-14T00:18:36.979Z",
    "type" : "UPLOAD_APPLICATION",
    "userName" : "demouser",
  },
}

XML Example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deploy-application-result
  ok="false"
  productVersion="7.0.0">
  <transaction
    appServerId="Tomcat"
    id="1"
    status="FAILURE"
    timeCreated="2014-04-13T00:18:36.979Z"
    timeUpdated="2014-04-14T00:18:36.979Z"
    type="UPLOAD_APPLICATION"
    userName="demouser">
    <description filename="myapplication.wlapp">
      <appVersionsAlreadyDeployedArray>
        <appVersionsAlreadyDeployed
          applicationName="myapplication"
          environment="android"
          version="1.0"/>
        ...
      </appVersionsAlreadyDeployedArray>
      <appVersionsDeployedArray>
        <appVersionsDeployed
          applicationName="myapplication"
          environment="android"
          version="1.0"/>
        ...
      </appVersionsDeployedArray>
    </description>
    <errors>
      <error details="An internal error occured."/>
      ...
    </errors>
    <project name="myproject"/>
  </transaction>
</deploy-application-result>

Response Properties

The response has the following properties:

ok: Whether the transaction was successful.
productVersion: The exact product version.
transaction: The details of the transaction.

The transaction has the following properties:

appServerId: The id of the web application server.
description: The details of the application.
errors: The errors occurred during the transaction.
id: The id of the transaction.
project: The current project.
status: The state of the transaction: PENDING, PREPARING, COMMITTING, REJECTING, SUCCESS, FAILURE, CANCELED. Synchronous transactions can have the state SUCCESS and FAILURE. Asynchronous transactions can also have the other states.
timeCreated: The date in ISO 8601 format when the adapter was created.
timeUpdated: The date in ISO 8601 format when the adapter was updated.
type: The type of the transaction, here always UPLOAD_APPLICATION.
userName: The user that initiated the transaction.

The description has the following properties:

appVersionsAlreadyDeployed: The app versions that were already previously deployed and remain unchanged.
appVersionsDeployed: The app versions deployed.
filename: The optional file name of the application.

The app version has the following properties:

applicationName: The name of the application.
environment: The environment of the application.
version: The version of the application.

The error has the following properties:

details: The main error message.

The project has the following properties:

name: The name of the project, which is the context root of the runtime.

Errors

403

The user is not authorized to call this service.

404

The corresponding runtime is not found or not running.

500

An internal error occurred.