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How to Create Channel Groups programatically.

nigel_thorne May 27, 2015 at 1:03 am

I need to push new channels to an Iguana instance, then lock them so local users can’t change them.

I can currently programatically deploy new channels. I am unable to find an API to allow me to group the channels and set roles so the local users are unable to make changes.

Can this be done?

I have a fallback plan of simulating the conversation the web UI had with the server by doing the following (although it’s not yet tested):

HTTP POST to http://localhost:6543/channel_groupings_control.html
With form data

group: LAAPS
old_group_name:
action: createGroup
description: xxx
included_channels: 567D7B37C714D9DDCA1E7A874251930C,3C177095DB412FE64EF5E5F7AE60D9A6,67271FA7F0A73F0549A34DD6EC00DF29,72BEE42FA4FC36BB0923C892F2FAB573

Then POST http://localhost:6543/role_control.html

role:Users
action:editRole
description:
channel_group_view_logs_547707F301BFA6A09ED270729F2E3A87:on
channel_group_startstop_816785B44FBD36D7D50A94E55E078ED9:on
channel_group_export_816785B44FBD36D7D50A94E55E078ED9:on
channel_group_view_logs_816785B44FBD36D7D50A94E55E078ED9:on
547707F301BFA6A09ED270729F2E3A87:visible
816785B44FBD36D7D50A94E55E078ED9:visible

Is there a better way?
Eliot Muir May 28, 2015 at 8:59 am
No there isn’t a better way. I would recommend that you:
1. Document what you have done by referring to this thread.
2. Share the code with our code sharing system
3. Then in the event an official API is created who ever is maintaining that code can come back to this thread
4. And of course make sure you package up the call as a module so that it’s easy to change the implementation in the future
Hope that helps! Did you just use the Chrome or equivalent tools to reverse engineer the form of the web calls to do this?
Eliot Muir May 28, 2015 at 9:01 am

(may be incorrectly presuming you are using lua code for the interaction)

nigel_thorne May 29, 2015 at 2:37 am

Yep I just monitored the web calls using Chrome devtools. Obviously being an undocumented API anything I implemented could break whenever we upgrade Iguana.

I will probably implement this as C# code. Obviously I will need to also handle starting a session (authenticating) first. Again I’ll reverse engineer it unless there is a nicer way.