Calling Iguana X APIs

Calling Iguana X APIs locally:

If you are calling Iguana’s APIs from a Translator within the same Iguana instance, you can use the iguana.call() function to call the API. This allows you to quickly call the desired API without having to authenticate.

When performing actions on targeted components, you can provide a list of component names or GUIDs to identify components. However, best practice is to use the component GUID as these are permanent IDs where as a component name can be modified.

Calling Iguana X APIs externally:

If you are calling Iguana’s APIs from outside of Iguana or from a different Iguana instance, you will need to use the net.http.* and authenticate before making API requests. This involves three steps:

Call the '/session/login' API passing your Iguana login credentials to authenticate and get a session cookie from the response header.

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In this example we are calling the '/component/list' API to get a list of all components on the Iguana instance.

To call the API, the retrieved session cookie is included in the header of Iguana API requests to authenticate. View the request’s response using the Annotations!

Call the '/session/logout' API to pass the session cookie to logout when finished.

Try this out in the Translator with the following code:

local function login(Credentials)
   -- url-encoded POST parameters
  local _, _, header = net.http.post{
      url = '127.0.0.1:7654/session/login',
      parameters = Credentials,
      live = true
   }
   -- return only the set cookie from header
   return header["Set-Cookie"]:split(';')[1]
end

local function logout(Cookie)
   net.http.post{
      url = '127.0.0.1:7654/session/logout',
      headers = {['Cookie'] = Cookie},
      live = true
   }
end

function main()
   local credentials = {
      username='admin',
      password='password'
   }
   -- Log in and get a session cookie
   local cookie = login(credentials)

   -- Call an Iguana X API using the cookie
   local componentList = net.http.post{
      url = '127.0.0.1:7654/component/list',
      headers = {['Cookie'] = cookie},
      live = true
   }
   local componentList = json.parse{data=componentList}

   -- Make more API calls with the cookie
   
   -- Log out
   logout(cookie)
end