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Is there a reference listing all the EAI paths for all resource types?

sideview
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Reverse engineering this stuff from the logs and existing usage in SplunkWeb's python code, I see a lot of things use the big flat 'admin/foo' paths to get/set data in EAI. However I also know vaguely from overhearing conversations at Splunk that this big flat list of 'admin/foo' endpoints is considered less than ideal and I thought I overheard that for each of them there is a more fundamental endpoint that we're all supposed to use.

And another data point is that I know that I can usually go to https://localhost:8089/servicesNS/admin/<app_name>/data , click past the stern security warnings from firefox, and there I should be able to drive to the stuff I want.

Then once I've found it, its easy to determine the proper EAI path by just looking at the browser URL.

The problem is that I cant find the 'proper' path for macros, and i cant find any path at all for extractions that are defined in props.conf

eg:

1) if I want to get a macro using the splunk.entity class in python, the only path I know is 'admin/macros', as in

splunk.entity.getEntity("admin/macros", "my_macro_name", namespace="my_app_name", owner="splunk.auth.getCurrentUser()['name'])

2) And I have an extracted field that is defined in my app and I cannot find a way to get this at all from EAI. (Maybe it would be there if I had defined it over in transforms and merely referred to it from props? )

Thanks in advance for any and all help.

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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee
  1. I'd suggest going to the manager/admin screen in the GUI (or doing something using the CLI if you prefer that), then looking at what pages are hit in the splunkd_access.log. I found: https://localhost:8089/servicesNS/-/search/admin/macros, which generalizes to https://localhost:8089/servicesNS/-/-/admin/macros, which I guess is what you have anyway, as it just incorporates the owner and the app namespace in the URL.
  2. https://localhost:8089/services/data/props/extractions, or the namespaced version at https://localhost:8089/servicesNS/-/-/data/props/extractions

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gkanapathy
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee
  1. I'd suggest going to the manager/admin screen in the GUI (or doing something using the CLI if you prefer that), then looking at what pages are hit in the splunkd_access.log. I found: https://localhost:8089/servicesNS/-/search/admin/macros, which generalizes to https://localhost:8089/servicesNS/-/-/admin/macros, which I guess is what you have anyway, as it just incorporates the owner and the app namespace in the URL.
  2. https://localhost:8089/services/data/props/extractions, or the namespaced version at https://localhost:8089/servicesNS/-/-/data/props/extractions

sideview
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Yea, for macros i can only find the admin/macros path, and i always thought those admin ones were hacks and not to be used. And for props I cant find anything. URLs in splunkd_access for the macros list page in manager is /servicesNS/admin//admin/data/props/extractions/, but the entity class only gives back 404's and 500's for any combination of those segments...

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