Maybe this is what Dan said but imo there should be no import/export
endpoints but these should do the job:

GET /api/*/profiles/:id <-- this is essentially an export. it gives you the
json of a profile (along with all the parameters). save the json to a file
and you've essentially exported the profile.
POST /api/*/profiles <-- this is how  you create profiles. if you supply
parameters as well you've essentially done an import.

jeremy



On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 9:16 AM Robert Butts <[email protected]> wrote:

> Can you clarify, are you referring to `/profile/import` and
> `/profile/:id/export`? Or `/api/$version/profiles/:id/export` and
> `/api/$version/profiles/import`?
>
> We should definitely deprecate and remove the non-API endpoints. But IMO we
> need to keep a way to create and get an entire profile, with parameters, in
> a single request. Users shouldn't have to make a dozen requests to import
> and export a profile.
>
> Also +1 on changing them to real booleans (not sure if the api
> export/import is, they appear to be undocumented). Though we can't break
> the current API; we could make the POST accept either, but the GET would
> have to be a new endpoint I think.
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 3:15 PM Dan Kirkwood <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I’d like to propose deprecating the import/export format of profiles. The
> > current format (Perl-based) is inconsistent with the standard POST
> > api/x.x/profiles format. Import/Export can/should be done using the same
> > API.   Traffic Portal Import should use the standard API endpoint.
> >
> > Import/export (shown below) has this form which includes the "profile"
> key
> > at the top level.  The "secure" option in the "parameters" secion uses a
> > 0/1 rather than a boolean true/false.  These 2 things make it
> inconsistent.
> >
> > Opinions are welcome...
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > {
> >     "profile": {
> >        "name": "myname",
> >        ...
> >      },
> >      "parameters": [
> >            {
> >                "name": "foo",
> >                "secure": 0,
> > ...
> >     ]
> > }
> >
>

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