OpenVox Server HTTP API: Catalog (v3)

Catalog

Note: For new integrations, prefer the Puppet v4 catalog API. The v4 API is more efficient because it does not require facts to be submitted as part of the catalog request.

The catalog endpoint returns a catalog for the specified node name given the provided facts.

Find

Retrieve a catalog.

POST /puppet/v3/catalog/:nodename
GET /puppet/v3/catalog/:nodename?environment=:environment

Supported HTTP Methods

POST, GET

Supported Response Formats

application/json, text/pson

Notes

The POST and GET methods are functionally equivalent. Both provide the parameters specified below: POST sends them in the request body, GET sends them in the query string.

OpenVox originally used GET; POST was added because some web servers have a maximum URI length of 1024 bytes, which is easily exceeded with the facts parameter.

The examples below use the POST method.

Parameters

Four parameters should be provided to the POST or GET:

  • environment: the environment name.
  • facts_format: must be application/json or pson.
  • facts: serialized JSON or PSON of the facts hash. Since facts can contain &, which is also the HTTP query parameter delimiter, facts are doubly-escaped.
  • transaction_uuid: a transaction uuid identifying the entire transaction (shows up in the report as well).

Two optional parameters are required for static catalogs:

  • static_catalog: a boolean requesting a static catalog if available; should always be true.
  • checksum_type: a dot-separated list of checksum types supported by the agent, for use in file resources of a static catalog. The order signifies preference, highest first.

Optional parameters that may be provided to the POST or GET:

  • configured_environment: the environment configured on the client. May be provided to notify an ENC that the client requested a specific environment which might differ from what the client believes is its current environment.
  • job_id: which orchestration job triggered this catalog request.

Example Response

Catalog found

POST /puppet/v3/catalog/elmo.mydomain.com

environment=env&configured_environment=canary_env&facts_format=application%2Fjson&facts=%257B%2522name%2522%253A%2522elmo.mydomain.com%2522%252C%2522values%2522%253A%257B%2522architecture%2522%253A%2522x86_64%2522%257D%257D&transaction_uuid=aff261a2-1a34-4647-8c20-ff662ec11c4c

HTTP 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "tags": [
    "settings",
    "multi_param_class",
    "class"
  ],
  "name": "elmo.mydomain.com",
  "version": 1377473054,
  "code_id": null,
  "catalog_uuid": "827a74c8-cf98-44da-9ff7-18c5e4bee41e",
  "catalog_format": 1,
  "environment": "production",
  "resources": [
    {
      "type": "Stage",
      "title": "main",
      "tags": [
        "stage"
      ],
      "exported": false,
      "parameters": {
        "name": "main"
      }
    },
    {
      "type": "Class",
      "title": "Settings",
      "tags": [
        "class",
        "settings"
      ],
      "exported": false
    },
    {
      "type": "Class",
      "title": "main",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ],
      "exported": false,
      "parameters": {
        "name": "main"
      }
    },
    {
      "type": "Class",
      "title": "Multi_param_class",
      "tags": [
        "class",
        "multi_param_class"
      ],
      "line": 10,
      "exported": false,
      "parameters": {
        "one": "hello",
        "two": "world"
      }
    },
    {
      "type": "Notify",
      "title": "foo",
      "tags": [
        "notify",
        "foo",
        "class",
        "multi_param_class"
      ],
      "line": 4,
      "exported": false,
      "parameters": {
        "message": "One is hello, two is world"
      }
    }
  ],
  "edges": [
    {
      "source": "Stage[main]",
      "target": "Class[Settings]"
    },
    {
      "source": "Stage[main]",
      "target": "Class[main]"
    },
    {
      "source": "Stage[main]",
      "target": "Class[Multi_param_class]"
    },
    {
      "source": "Class[Multi_param_class]",
      "target": "Notify[foo]"
    }
  ],
  "classes": [
    "settings",
    "multi_param_class"
  ]
}

Static Catalog found

POST /puppet/v3/catalog/elmo.mydomain.com

environment=env&configured_environment=canary_env&facts_format=application%2Fjson&facts=%7B%22name%22%3A%22elmo.mydomain.com%22%2C%22values%22%3A%7B%22architecture%22%3A%22x86_64%22%7D&transaction_uuid=aff261a2-1a34-4647-8c20-ff662ec11c4c&static_catalog=true&checksum_type=sha256.md5

HTTP 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "tags": [
    "settings",
    "multi_param_class",
    "class"
  ],
  "name": "elmo.mydomain.com",
  "version": 1377473054,
  "code_id": "arbitrary_code_id_string",
  "catalog_uuid": "827a74c8-cf98-44da-9ff7-18c5e4bee41e",
  "catalog_format": 1,
  "environment": "production",
  "resources": [ ... ],
  "edges": [ ... ],
  "classes": [
    "settings",
    "multi_param_class"
  ],
  "metadata": {
    "/tmp/foo": {
      "checksum": {
        "type": "sha256",
        "value": "{sha256}5891b5b522d5df086d0ff0b110fbd9d21bb4fc7163af34d08286a2e846f6be03"
      },
      "content_uri": "puppet:///modules/a_module/files/foo",
      "destination": null,
      "group": 20,
      "links": "manage",
      "mode": 420,
      "owner": 501,
      "path": "/etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/modules/a_module/files/foo.txt",
      "relative_path": null,
      "source": "puppet:///modules/a_module/foo",
      "type": "file"
    }
  },
  "recursive_metadata": {
    "/tmp/bar": {
      "puppet:///modules/a_module/bar": [
        {
          "checksum": {
            "type": "ctime",
            "value": "{ctime}2016-02-19 17:38:36 -0800"
          },
          "content_uri": "puppet:///modules/a_module/files/bar",
          "destination": null,
          "group": 20,
          "links": "manage",
          "mode": 420,
          "owner": 501,
          "path": "/etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/modules/a_module/files/bar",
          "relative_path": ".",
          "source": null,
          "type": "directory"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Schema

In the POST request body (or the GET query), the facts parameter should conform to the facts schema.

A catalog response body conforms to the catalog schema.