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• Updated On 4.0.3

Create Target

Create a Crafter Deployer target. If a target already exists and replace is true, then the new target will replace the existing one. If replace is false and the target exists, a 409 is returned.

Target creation is based on templates. The deployer comes with two out of the box: remote and local. The remote template creates targets that pull changes from a remote Git repository, making it ideal to create targets for delivery environments. The local template instead generates targets that use a local Git repo and the last processed commit to infer the changes, without executing a pull, so it’s used mostly to create targets for authoring environments.

Resource Information

This service uses the deployer application on port 9191 by default. To see a list of default ports click here

The context for this API is /.

HTTP Verb	POST
URL	/api/1/target/create
Response Formats	JSON

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
env	String	✓	The target’s environment (e.g. dev).
site_name	String	✓	The target’s site name (e.g. mysite).
replace	Boolean		Replace the existing target.
template_name	String		The template to use for configuration generation. Out of the box remote and local are provided. If not specified remote will be used.
disable_deploy_cron	Boolean		Disables the cron job the runs deployments every certain amount of time.
repo_url	String	✓	Depends on the template. If remote is being used, it specifies the URL of the remote repo to pull from (e.g. ssh://…). If instead the template is local, repo_url is the filesystem path of the local repo (e.g. /opt/..).
repo_branch	String		Only use with “remote” template. The branch name of the remote Git repo to pull from. If not specified, the branch will be whatever branch is the current one in the remote repo.
repo_username	String		Only use with “remote” template. The username of the remote Git repo.
repo_password	String		Only use with “remote” template. The password of the remote Git repo.
ssh_private_key_path	String		Only use with “remote” template. The path for the private key used for the remote Git repo.
ssh_private_key_passphrase	String		Only use with “remote” template. The passphrase for the private key for the remote Git repo (only if the key is passphrase-protected).
engine_url	String		Base URL of Engine, used to make API calls like clear cache and rebuild context. If not specified the default is http://localhost:8080.
notification_addresses	String		The email addresses that should receive deployment notifications.
search_engine	String		Search engine options for the site Elasticsearch: use Elastic Search as search engine CrafterSearch: use Crafter Search as search engine Default value is Elasticsearch

Example

Requests

POST .../api/1/target/create

{
  "env": "dev",
  "site_name": "mysite",
  "replace": false,
  "template_name" : "remote",
  "repo_url" : "ssh://crafter@server/opt/crafter/data/repos/sites/mysite/published",
  "repo_username" : "crafter",
  "repo_password" : "crafter",
  "repo_branch" : "live",
  "engine_url" : "http://localhost:8080",
  "notification_addresses" : ["admin1@mysite.com", "admin2@mysite.com"]
}

POST .../api/1/target/create

{
  "env": "preview",
  "site_name": "mysite",
  "replace": true,
  "disable_deploy_cron": true,
  "template_name" : "local",
  "repo_url" : "/opt/crafter/data/repos/sites/mysite/sandbox",
  "engine_url" : "http://localhost:8080",
}

Response

Status 201 CREATED

{ "message" : "OK" }

Responses

Status	Location	Response Body
201	.../target/get/:target_id	{ "message" : "OK" }
400		{ "message" : "Validation failed", "field_errors": [...] }
409	.../target/get/:target_id	{ "message" : "Target already exists" }
500		{ "message" : "Internal server error" }