Trying to create an application with Splunk's Restful API

[sloaniebaloney]

I'm new to Splunk and am somewhat familiar with REST. I am trying to create a new application through the Splunk RESTful API. The installation is on windows and I am attempting to do this via curl on the command line.

The command I'm typing in is as follows:

curl -u myUsername:myPassword -k https://localhost:8089/services/apps/local/_new/ -d "name=MyApp"

I have also tried this as a non-post with the curl command

curl -u myUsername:myPassword -k https://localhost:8089/services/apps/local/_new/?name=MyApp

The first curl command returns the xml that mimics what is displayed on the splunk services server. The second one throws an error. I have also tried the first one with url-encoding the posted data with -data-urlencode

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Ken

[ewoo]

What version of Splunk are you using? The following instructions work for 4.1.6.

To create an app, you must provide a name for the new app and a template from which to start:

$ curl -k -u admin:admin -X POST https://localhost:8089/services/apps/local -d 'name=myapp&template=barebones'

This will create an app named 'myapp' based on the barebones template.

In general, '_new' is used to determine what arguments are required to create a new object (or edit an existing one). It is not used to create the objects themselves.

$ curl -u admin:admin -k https://localhost:8089/services/apps/local/_new | xmllint --format -
[snip]
    <s:key name="eai:attributes">
      <s:dict>
        <s:key name="optionalFields">
          <s:list>
            <s:item>author</s:item>
            <s:item>description</s:item>
            <s:item>install</s:item>
            <s:item>label</s:item>
            <s:item>manageable</s:item>
            <s:item>template</s:item>
            <s:item>visible</s:item>
          </s:list>
        </s:key>
        <s:key name="requiredFields">
          <s:list>
            <s:item>name</s:item>
          </s:list>
        </s:key>
        <s:key name="wildcardFields">
          <s:list/>
        </s:key>
      </s:dict> 
    </s:key>
[snip]

[sloaniebaloney]

Thank you. This helped an I can now create an application.

Ken