Create External Service

Create External Service

Create an external service. Once created, the combination of vendor, name and version cannot be modified and must be unique. Each extension will have its own MQTT topics.

Request
URI
POST
https://{api_host}/cloudapi/extensions/api
COPY
Request Body
ExternalService of type(s) application/json
Optional
{
    "name": "string",
    "id": "urn:vcloud:extension:VMware.Timer:1.0.0",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "vendor": "VMware",
    "priority": 0,
    "enabled": false,
    "authorizationEnabled": false,
    "description": "string",
    "mqttTopics": {
        "mqttTopics": "string"
    }
}
string
name
Required

The name of the external service.

string
id
Optional

The unique id of the external service.

string
version
Required

The extension's version. The version should follow semantic versioning rules. Versions with pre-release extension are not allowed. The combination of vendor-namespace-version must be unique.

string
vendor
Required

The vendor name. The combination of vendor-namespace-version must be unique.

integer As int32 As int32
priority
Optional

Extension service priority. An integer between 0-100. A value of 50 denotes a neutral priority.

boolean
enabled
Required

Whether the extension is enabled or not.

boolean
authorizationEnabled
Optional

Whether authorization is enabled for the service.

string
description
Optional

description

object
mqttTopics
Optional

The map of MQTT topics this extension will communicate through.

Authentication
This operation uses the following authentication methods.
Responses
200

OK

Returns ExternalService of type(s) application/json;version=39.0
{
    "name": "string",
    "id": "urn:vcloud:extension:VMware.Timer:1.0.0",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "vendor": "VMware",
    "priority": 0,
    "enabled": false,
    "authorizationEnabled": false,
    "description": "string",
    "mqttTopics": {
        "mqttTopics": "string"
    }
}
string
name
Required

The name of the external service.

string
id
Optional

The unique id of the external service.

string
version
Required

The extension's version. The version should follow semantic versioning rules. Versions with pre-release extension are not allowed. The combination of vendor-namespace-version must be unique.

string
vendor
Required

The vendor name. The combination of vendor-namespace-version must be unique.

integer As int32 As int32
priority
Optional

Extension service priority. An integer between 0-100. A value of 50 denotes a neutral priority.

boolean
enabled
Required

Whether the extension is enabled or not.

boolean
authorizationEnabled
Optional

Whether authorization is enabled for the service.

string
description
Optional

description

object
mqttTopics
Optional

The map of MQTT topics this extension will communicate through.