[Process] XTendM3 Deployment APIs

Legacy Contributor

Greetings;

     I'm working on my first XtendM3 project for an MI for M3.  I like scripting tasks for purposes of automation and reducing copy / paste errors when testing and deploying code between environments.  I've done this in the past with APIs for configurations in CMS010/015 and APIs for Event Analytics (On-Prem/Single Tenant)  

     Are there / will there be APIs for pulling / deploying / updating code to XTendM3 for non-Production environments?  I would like to be able to script an IONAPI call to automate.

     I see the import / export puts the code in a Base 64 encoded string in the JSON file, but I was hoping to not have to build / translate that for each process.

     I understand the signed code would most likely require a manual import in a Production environment.

Thanks for any assistance;

Billy

Legacy Contributor

Hi @billy-willoughby

That's a great mindset and we also think automation is the key for efficiency. For XtendM3 we are trying to follow the best practices as much as possible and ease the process so that it is accommodating of both tech-savvy professionals like you as well those who prefer working with GUI.

Currently the REST APIs for import and exporting are internal and not exposed through ION APIs. We are planning to publicize them. We recommend to set up the XtendM3 projects on GitHub or any other version control system that provides a CI/CD pipeline in this format. Once you have this in place we recommend to integrate your project with the plugin that we provide here. What this plugin does is that it performs linting and checks on your extensions each time you commit to the repository and it proceeds by exporting your extension into an importable JSON.

Once we have publicized the import/export APIs we will be updating this plugin so that you can configure it to import your extensions automatically. In this way you do not need to write your own scripts to import the scripts.

Hope you find this helpful and let me know if anything is unclear.

Thanks!

Erfan.