/api/tree/rules

The rules endpoint is used for bulk merging, replacing or deleting the entire ruleset of a tree. Instead of calling the tree/rule endpoint multiple times for a single rule, you can supply a list of rules that will be merged into, or replace, the current rule set. Note that the GET verb is not supported for this endpoint. To fetch the ruleset, load the tree via the /tree endpoint. Also, all data must be provided in request content, query strings are not supported.

Verbs

• POST - Merge rule sets

• PUT - Replace the entire rule set

• DELETE - Delete a rule

Requests

A request to store data must be an array of objects in the content of the request. The same fields as required for the /api/tree/rule endpoint are supported.

Response

A successful response to a POST or PUT request will return a 204 response code without body content. Successful DELETE calls will return with a 204 status code and no body content. If a tree does not have any rules, the DELETE request will still return a 204. When modifying data, if no changes were present, i.e. the call did not provide any data to store, the response will be a 304 without any body content. If the requested tree did not exist in the system, a 404 will be returned with an error message. If invalid data was supplied a 400 error will be returned.

POST/PUT

Issuing a POST will merge the given rule set with any that already exist. This means that if a rule already exists for one of the given rules, only the fields given will be modified in the existing rule. Using the PUT method will replace all of the rules for the given tree with the new set. Any existing rules for the tree will be deleted before the new rules are stored.

Note

All of the rules in the request array must belong to the same treeId or a 400 exception will be returned. Likewise, all of the rules will pass validation and must include the level and order fields.

Example POST Request

http://localhost:4242/api/tree/rule?treeId=1&level=0&order=0&type=METRIC&separator=.&method_override=post

Example Content Request

[
    {
        "treeId": 1,
        "level": 0,
        "order": 0,
        "type": "METRIC",
        "description": "Metric split rule",
        "split": "\\."
    },
    {
        "treeId": 1,
        "level": 0,
        "order": 1,
        "type": "tagk",
        "field": "fqdn",
        "description": "Hostname for the device"
    },
    {
        "treeId": 1,
        "level": 1,
        "order": 0,
        "type": "tagk",
        "field": "department"
        "description": "Department that owns the device"
    }
]

DELETE

Using the DELETE method will remove all rules from a tree. A successful deletion will respond with a 204 status code and no content body. If the tree did not exist, a 404 error will be returned.

Warning

This method cannot be undone.

Example DELETE Request

http://localhost:4242/api/tree/rules?treeId=1&method_override=delete