Deploying an unpublished application version to a device about iectl-workflow

[paveel-h]

Hi, is that application located in catalog?

[joonakilpinen]

Hi, the application is not published in the catalog. My idea was that it should not be published into the catalog until it's really ready for usage. So my aim is to automate deployment of (possibly non-functional) development versions of the application in to a testing device, so I can test it before publishing.

This is doable from the application page in web gui, but I see no way of doing it with iectl.

[paveel-h]

Hi, you need to first import the application to catalog from where it is possible to deploy the application to the edge device. Please note that we will update the exaple to the latest iectl 2.0

[joonakilpinen]

So the problem is that we do not want to publish an unfinished and quite possibly broken application into the catalog. Instead, we just want to install the unpublished application onto a testing device, so we can verify that it actually works before publishing. This should be doable with iectl alone, as it is also by using the web interface of IEM.

I have worked around this by using curl and jq for making the necessary http calls instead of using iectl.
The procedure goes like this:

• Get access token for further requests by posting username & password to $IEM_URL/p.service/api/v4/login/direct with curl
• Use iectl to create and upload a new unpublished version of the application.
• Get application details with curl from $IEM_URL/p.service/api/v4/dev-apps/$APP_ID
• Use jq to find and extract version identifier from the response JSON
• Finally use curl to make a FORM post to: $IEM_URL/p.service/api/v4/applications/$APP_ID/versions/$VERSION_ID/batch?operation=installApplication&isRetainSecret=false&allow=true with infoMap containing the deviceId of our testing device.