Basic Delphix Cookbook

Set the values for host, username and password:

node[:delphix][:host] = 'delphix.example.com'
node[:delphix][:username] = 'admin'
node[:delphix][:password] = 'd3lph1X'

Then in a recipe use:

First establish a session with the Delphix appliance using the specified API version:

 Delphix.api_version = {
   type: 'APIVersion',
   major: node[:delphix][:api_version]
 }

Specify the Delphix server name.

 Delphix.server     = node[:delphix][:server]

Specify the Delphix username.

 Delphix.api_user   = node[:delphix][:username]

Specify the Delphix password.

 Delphix.api_passwd = node[:delphix][:password]

Now we have an established session, go crazy.

The Delphix object support the following HTTP methods are supported:

GET

Retrieve data from the server where complex input is not needed. All GET requests are guaranteed to be read-only, but not all read-only requests are required to use GET. Simple input (strings, number, boolean values) can be passed as query parameters.

 Delphix.get session

POST

Issue a read/write operation, or make a read-only call that requires complex input. The optional body of the call is expressed as JSON.

 Delphix.post provision, { "JSON": "DATA" }

DELETE

Delete an object on the system. For languages that don't provide a native wrapper for DELETE, or for delete operations with optional input, all delete operations can also be invoked as POST to the same URL with /delete appended to it.

Each method returns a hash that responds to #code, #headers, #body and #raw_body obtained from parsing the JSON object in the response body.

@param [String<URL>] url
  The url of where to send the request.

@param [Hash] parameters
  Data in the form of key/value.

@param [Proc] block
  Block to execute when the request returns.

@return [Fixnum, #code]
  The response code from Delphix engine.

@return [Hash, #headers]
  The headers, beautified with symbols and underscores.

@return [Hash, #body]
  The parsed response body where applicable (JSON  responses are parsed to
  Objects/Associative Arrays)

@return [Hash, #raw_body]
  The raw_body, un-parsed response body.

For some debuging help you can return the last message body:

 ap Delphix.session.body

Return the last request sent:

 ap Delphix.last_request

Return the last response from the Delphix:

 ap Delphix.last_response

To get the entire API schema you can use connect to the server on the /api/json/delphix.json URL. The JSON response can them be parsed and imported so that it can be used to generate the providers.

 Delphix.get "http://#{Delphix.server}/api/json/delphix.json"```

License and Authors

Author::   Stefano Harding <riddopic@gmail.com>
Copyright: 2014-2015, Stefano Harding

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