topic Re: Duplicate App using .NET SDK in Integration, Extension & APIs

Duplicate App using .NET SDK

Mon, 16 Mar 2015 09:49:15 GMT

Hi,

We're building our own Web application using Qlik Sense .NET SDK. And we're trying to re-create the process of duplicating an existing App (same as in QMC).

From what I've researched the only option is to use copyApp method:

using (var hub = location.Hub())
{
    hub.CopyApp(destApp.AppId, srcApp.AppId, <array of QRS identifiers>);
}

Documentation says that we can get QRS identifiers from from the following path:

/qrs/app/9c3f8634-6191-4a34-a114-a39102058d13 Where 9c3f8634-6191-4a34-a114-a39102058d13 is the identifier of the app

but it simply returns App object specific data and nothing about child objects.

So the question is:
is there any fast way to get QRS identifiers without drilling down every child object of an App and getting its GUID?

Perhaps there is a different method on how to achieve the same result?

Any help is appreciated!

Regards,
Rustam

Re: Duplicate App using .NET SDK

Tue, 17 Mar 2015 13:12:17 GMT

Hi,

For what you want to do there is a rest API /qrs/app<id>/copy?name=<destination appname>

Best regards

Lars-Göran Book

Re: Duplicate App using .NET SDK

Wed, 06 May 2015 11:26:54 GMT

Hi,

sorry for such delayed answer.

Unfortunately the path you advised does not exist.

Here is an integration test that fails:

[Fact]

public void QrsApi_CopiesAppCorrectly()

{

var response = MakeRequest("app/fc44a98a-499a-4569-930f-fe1bc7f96326/copy?name=AppCopy");

Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.OK, response.StatusCode);

}

while this one succeeds:

[Fact]

public void QrsApi_CanBeCalled()

{

var response = MakeRequest("app");

Assert.Equal(HttpStatusCode.OK, response.StatusCode);

}

As answered in this thread: Get list of available endpoints (paths) QRS API there is a bug in documentation.

Currently we are using version 1.1 and the problem still persists.

Let's just hope that this endpoint will be available in the next build.

Re: Duplicate App using .NET SDK

Alexander_Thor — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 17:38:41 GMT

Just to be clear, the other thread you are linking to refers to /qrs/about and has nothing to do with this endpoint.

Perhaps you can supply some more sample code as the endpoint /qrs/app/{id}/copy works just fine, QMC uses it to duplicate apps for example.

Re: Duplicate App using .NET SDK

Tue, 02 Jun 2015 08:07:18 GMT

Hi, Alexander.

Thanks for the reply.
Indeed everything works fine, tests now succeed.

We moved to using certificates, so perhaps the problem was that I tried making POST requests while using windows authentication.