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API cookbook: create a bookmark in Delphix self-service

Delphix Self-Service administrators can use this API cookbook recipe to create a branch on Delphix Self-Service (Jet Stream) using the Delphix Engine API.

The following script is for educational and demonstration purposes only and is not supported by Delphix.

This script can be downloaded by selecting createBranch.sh.

Create Self-Service Branch

CODE
#!/bin/bash

# A sample script for calls to the API. This one creates a Jet Stream bookmark.

##### Constants

# Describes a Delphix software revision.
# Please change version are per your Delphix Engine CLI, if different
VERSION="1.8.0"


##### Default Values. These can be overwriten with optional arguments.
engine="172.16.151.154"
username="delphix_admin"
password="landshark"

shared=false

##example##
#./createBookmark.sh -d 172.16.151.154 -u delphix_admin:landshark -p "bookmark test" -e "2016-07-27T23:38:56.453Z" -t "2016-07-27T01:45:56.453Z" -T "[tag1,tag2,tag3,tag4,tag5]" bkmrk3 JS_BRANCH-41


##### Functions

# Help Menu
function usage {
	echo "Usage: createBookmark.sh [[-h] | options...] <name> <branch>"
	echo "Create a Jet Stream Bookmark on the given branch."
	echo ""
	echo "Positional arguments"
	echo "  <name>"
	echo "  <branch>"
	echo ""
	echo "Optional Arguments:"
	echo "  -h                Show this message and exit"
	echo "  -d                Delphix engine IP address or host name, otherwise revert to default"
	echo "  -u USER:PASSWORD  Server user and password, otherwise revert to default"
	echo "  -D                Description of this bookmark. Type: string"
	echo "  -e                A policy will automatically delete this bookmark at this time. If not present the bookmark will be kept until manually deleted. Type: date, must be in ISO 8601 extended format [yyyy]-[MM]-[dd]T[HH]:[mm]:[ss].[SSS]Z"
	echo "  -s                Present if need to make bookmark in shared mode"
	echo "  -t                The time at which the bookmark should be created. If no time is included, the bookmark will be created at the latest point in time. Type: date, must be in ISO 8601 extended format [yyyy]-[MM]-[dd]T[HH]:[mm]:[ss].[SSS]Z"
	echo "  -T                A set of user-defined labels for this bookmark. No spaces allowed. Array of Type: string. In format, [tag1,tag2,..] "
}

# Create Our Session, including establishing the API version.
function create_session
{
	# Pulling the version into parts. The {} are necessary for string manipulation.
	# Strip out longest match following "."  This leaves only the major version.
	major=${VERSION%%.*}
	# Strip out the shortest match preceding "." This leaves minor.micro.
	minorMicro=${VERSION#*.}
	# Strip out the shortest match followint "." This leaves the minor version.
	minor=${minorMicro%.*}
	# Strip out the longest match preceding "." This leaves the micro version.
	micro=${VERSION##*.}

	# Quick note about the <<-. If the redirection operator << is followed by a - (dash), all leading TAB from the document data will be
	# ignored. This is useful to have optical nice code also when using here-documents. Otherwise you must have the EOF be on a line by itself,
	# no parens, no tabs or anything.

	echo "creating session..."
	result=$(curl -s -S -X POST -k --data @- http://${engine}/resources/json/delphix/session \
		-c ~/cookies.txt -H "Content-Type: application/json" <<-EOF
	{
		"type": "APISession",
		"version": {
			"type": "APIVersion",
			"major": $major,
			"minor": $minor,
			"micro": $micro
		}
	}
	EOF)

	check_result
}

# Authenticate the DE for the provided user.
function authenticate_de
{
	echo "authenticating delphix engine..."
	result=$(curl -s -S -X POST -k --data @- http://${engine}/resources/json/delphix/login \
		-b ~/cookies.txt -c ~/cookies.txt -H "Content-Type: application/json" <<-EOF
	{
		"type": "LoginRequest",
		"username": "${username}",
		"password": "${password}"
	}
	EOF)

	check_result
}

# Get the branch info so the bookmark to fill in dataLayout
function get_branch
{
	echo "retrieveing branch $branchRef to find Source Data Layout..."
	result=$(curl -s -X GET -k http://${engine}/resources/json/delphix/jetstream/branch/${branchRef} \
    -b ~/cookies.txt -H "Content-Type: application/json")

    check_result

    # Get everything in the result that comes after dataLayout.
    temp=${result#*\"dataLayout\":\"}
    # Get rid of everything after creat
    dataLayout=${temp%%\"*}

    echo "temp" $temp

    echo "dataLayout" $dataLayout
}

function create_bookmark
{
	get_branch

	# If there is not creation time, we need to use JSTimelinePointLatestTimeInput.
	if [ -z $creationTime ]
	then
		pointParams="\"timelinePointParameters\":{
			\"sourceDataLayout\": \"$dataLayout\",
			\"type\":\"JSTimelinePointLatestTimeInput\"}"

	else
		pointParams="\"timelinePointParameters\":{
			\"sourceDataLayout\": \"$dataLayout\",
			\"time\":\"$creationTime\",
			\"branch\":\"$branchRef\",
			\"type\":\"JSTimelinePointTimeInput\"}"
	fi

	# These are the required parameters.
	paramString="
		\"bookmark\": {
	        \"branch\": \"${branchRef}\",
	        \"name\": \"${bookmarkName}\","

	# Fill in optional parameters if there are any.
	if [[ -n $description ]]
	then
		paramString="$paramString \"description\": \"$description\","
	fi

	if [[ -n $expiration ]]
	then
		paramString="$paramString \"expiration\": \"$expiration\","
	fi

	if [[ -n $shared ]]
	then
		paramString="$paramString \"shared\": $shared,"
	fi

	if [[ -n $tags ]]
	then
		# Add quotes back to the passed in tags so they are processed correctly.
		tags=${tags//[/[\"}
		tags=${tags//,/\",\"}
		tags=${tags//]/\"]}

		paramString="$paramString \"tags\": $tags,"
	fi

	paramString="$paramString \"type\": \"JSBookmark\"
	    },
	    ${pointParams},
	    \"type\": \"JSBookmarkCreateParameters\""

	result=$(curl -s -X POST -k --data @- http://${engine}/resources/json/delphix/jetstream/bookmark \
	    -b ~/cookies.txt -H "Content-Type: application/json" <<-EOF
	{
	    $paramString
	}
	EOF)

	check_result

	echo "confirming job completed successfully..."
	# Get everything in the result that comes after job.
    temp=${result#*\"job\":\"}
    # Get rid of everything after
    jobRef=${temp%%\"*}


    result=$(curl -s -X GET -k http://${engine}/resources/json/delphix/job/${jobRef} \
    -b ~/cookies.txt -H "Content-Type: application/json")

    # Get everything in the result that comes after job.
    temp=${result#*\"jobState\":\"}
    # Get rid of everything after
    jobState=${temp%%\"*}

    check_result

    while [ $jobState = "RUNNING" ]
    do
    	sleep 1
    	result=$(curl -s -X GET -k http://${engine}/resources/json/delphix/job/${jobRef} \
	    -b ~/cookies.txt -H "Content-Type: application/json")

	    # Get everything in the result that comes after job.
	    temp=${result#*\"jobState\":\"}
	    # Get rid of everything after
	    jobState=${temp%%\"*}

	    check_result

    done

    if [ $jobState = "COMPLETED" ]
	then
		echo "successfully created bookmark $bookmarkName"
	else
		echo "unable to create bookmark"
		echo result
	fi

}

# Check the result of the curl. If there are problems, inform the user then exit.
function check_result
{
	exitStatus=$?
	if [ $exitStatus -ne 0 ]
	then
	    echo "command failed with exit status $exitStatus"
	    exit 1
	elif [[ $result != *"OKResult"* ]]
	then
		echo ""
		echo $result
		exit 1
	fi
}

##### Main

while getopts "u:d:D:e:s:t:T:h" flag; do
	case "$flag" in
    	u )             username=${OPTARG%:*}
						password=${OPTARG##*:}
						;;
		d )             engine=$OPTARG
						;;
		D )             description=$OPTARG
						;;
		e )             expiration=$OPTARG
						;;
		s )         	shared=true
						;;
		t )             creationTime=$OPTARG
						;;
		T )             tags=$OPTARG
						;;
		h )             usage
						exit
						;;
		* )             usage
						exit 1
	esac

echo "OPTARG" $OPTARG ####

done


# Shift the parameters so we only have the positional arguments left
shift $((OPTIND-1))

# Check that there are 2 positional arguments
if [ $# != 2 ]
then
	usage
	exit 1
fi

# Get the two positional arguments
bookmarkName=$1
shift
branchRef=$1

create_session
authenticate_de
create_bookmark
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