So this week I started tinkering with the cloud foundry API. In all honesty I did have to get a little help from one of our developers because I was doing something wrong. Forgetting that in my lab I don’t have trusted certificates I wasn’t using a flag in the headers below to ignore that. Anyway just a slight glitch.
First you need to get your endpoint URL by asking for info from your CF API
Get Endpoint:
Get https://API.pcfsys.domain.local/info
This should give you a payload with the endpoint listed. Using the endpoint url now post a payload like the one below substituting your domain and your admin user/password.
Get token:
POST https://login.pcfsys.domain.local/oauth/token
Headers:
Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept:application/json;charset=utf-8
Authorization:Basic Y2Y6
X-UAA-Endpoint:https://login.domain.local
rejectUnauthorized:false
requestCert:false
agent:false
Body:
grant_type=password&username=admin&password=somepassword
At this point you should be presented with payload with your access token listed. Now you can use the access token to Get stuff. Like a list of the CF orgs.
List orgs:
Get https://API.pcfsys.domain.local/v2/organizations
Headers:
Accept:application/json;charset=utf-8
Authorization:bearer eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1…………..
List Spaces:
Get https://API.pcfsys.domain.local/v2/spaces
Headers = same as orgs
List Apps:
Get https://API.pcfsys.domain.local/v2/apps
Headers = same as orgs
List Users:
Get https://API.pcfsys.domain.local/v2/users
Headers = same as orgs
OK how about something a bit more like a query? How about we list all the space for a given user?
When you called the list of users you should be presented with a payload that also includes the guid for each user. Using this guid you can list the spaces for that user.
List spaces for specific user using the guid:
Get https://API.pcfsys.domain.local/v2/users/94aa5e3b-86e1-4ca0-90b1-4734d6555ef2/spaces
Headers = same as orgs
Simple right… watch this space for more on the Cloud Foundry API
