Thanks Mike, that helped me figure it out. I carelessly copied the curl command from the docs and was posting a zip file with content-type application/xml instead of zip. This still returned "200 package created", so I was concentrating on why the install step didn¹t work..
Rob On 30/05/2014 19:57, "Michael Blakeley" <[email protected]> wrote: >Does https://github.com/marklogic/RunDMC/blob/docapp/install-apidoc.sh >help? > >The interesting stuff starts around line 55. It builds a zip from the >contents of >https://github.com/marklogic/RunDMC/tree/docapp/apidoc/package then >uploads that with a curl request, and finally applies it with another >curl request. > >The -e flag is set, so if anything goes wrong the script exits. However >it's also logging curl output using tee, so after each of those >statements it has to check PIPESTATUS. > >-- Mike > >On 30 May 2014, at 09:15 , Whitby, Rob <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I¹m trying to use the packaging API, but I¹m missing the big picture of >>how it works. The GUI doesn¹t seem to map directly to the REST API. In >>the GUI I can import a package, and apply it successfully. But I¹m not >>sure how to do that with the API. >> >> Here¹s how far I¹ve got: >> >> 1. Upload the package: POST package.zip to >>/manage/v2/packages?pkgname=somepackage >> ‹> status 200 Created somepackage >> >> 2. Install the package: POST (with empty body) to >>/manage/v2/packages/somepackage/install >> --> status 200 "success=true" but no changes are applied. The ticket >>has nothing under ³install-list², unlike when the same package is >>applied in the GUI. >> >> Clearly I don¹t understand how the API is meant to be used any >>pointers to examples or documentation? >> >> Thanks >> Rob >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general
