3. Manage Applications

Import applications
Learn how you can import applications from a configuration file into the API-Manager

Export and report applications
You can export one or more applications from a running API-Manager or just get a list/report of the applications.

Import an Application

The Axway API-Management CLI tool allows you to import or basically replicate the desired Applications into the API-Manager to become the actual state.
To get started use the CLI with the following command: apim app import -h which provides you with a complete usage.

The mandatory required parameters are the stage (alternatively host/username/password) and the API-Configuration file. The following examples should help you to get started:

Command	Comment/Description
apim app import -s qa -c myAppConfig.json	Replicates an application into the QA-Stage

Application configuration file

{
  "name" : "Complete application",
  "description" : "Sample Client Application, registered for use in the Client Demo",
  "state" : "approved",
  "image" : "app-image.jpg",
  "enabled" : true,
  "email" : "[email protected]",
  "phone" : "012345678",
  "credentials" : [ {
    "credentialType" : "oauth",
    "enabled" : true,
    "secret" : "9cb76d80-1bc2-48d3-8d31-edeec0fddf6c",
    "corsOrigins" : [ ],
    "cert" : "app-oauth-cert.crt",
    "type" : "confidential",
    "clientId" : "ClientConfidentialApp",
    "redirectUrls" : [ "https://localhost:8088/client/apigateway/callback", "https://oauthclient:8088/client/apigateway/callback" ]
  }, {
    "credentialType" : "apikeys",
    "enabled" : true,
    "secret" : "34f2b2d6-0334-4dcc-8442-e0e7009b8950",
    "corsOrigins" : [ "*" ],
    "apiKey" : "6cd55c27-675a-444a-9bc7-ae9a7869184d"
  } ],
  "appQuota" : {
    "restrictions" : [{
      "api" : "*",
      "method" : "*",
      "type" : "throttle",
      "config" : {
        "messages" : "9999",
        "period" : "week",
        "per" : "1"
      }
    } ]
  },
  "permissions": [
    {
      "user": "ALL",
      "permission": "view"
    },
    {
      "user": "chris",
      "permission": "manage"
    }
  ]
}

Application permission management, i.e. sharing applications with users of the same organization, is possible from version 1.5.0.

Export Applications

The Axway API-Management CLI tool allows you to export Applications from the API-Manager for instance in order to promote them into the next stage, put them into a version-control system or just update the configuration.
To get started use the CLI with the following command: apim app get -h which provides you with a complete usage.

Filter the list of Applications

You can filter the list of Applications. Multiple filters are combined with AND. The following provides you with a few examples. Please check the usage for all filter options:

Command	Comment/Description
apim app get -s prod	Lists ALL applications with standard information on the console
apim api get -s prod -name "*Banking*" -ultra	Gets application named Banking and prints them with all available information

There is no difference between the wide and ultra option for applications.

Export Format

By default the get operation is using the console view and generates a table representation of the exported data. However, you can provide a --output or -o parameter to the get operation to control the export format you want.

JSON

This format gives you the JSON format as it's required to import the application with apim app import. For each exported application an export folder is created.

Command	Comment/Description
apim app get -s prod -id 8f7bd987-0736-43b.... -o json	Export the API with the provided ID into the current folder.
apim app get -s qa -t C:/axway/applications -o json	Gets All applications from the QA-Stage exported into the given local folder. For each exported application a folder is created automatically.

You can provide the option: -deleteTarget if you would like to replace existing folders.