Merge pull request #464 from rebortg/http_api

HTTP-API: rewrite and add config multiple commands

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+.. _vyosapi:
+
+########
+VyOS API
+########
+
+for configuration and enabling the API see :ref:`http-api`
+
+**************
+Authentication
+**************
+
+All Endpoint only listen on HTTP POST requests and the API KEY must set as
+``key`` in the formdata.
+
+Below see one example or curl and one for python.
+In the following, the documentation is reduced to curl.
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+   curl --location --request POST 'https://vyos/retrieve' \
+   --form data='{"op": "showConfig", "path": []}' \
+   --form key='MY-HTTPS-API-PLAINTEXT-KEY'
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+   import requests
+   url = "https://vyos/retrieve"
+   payload={'data': '{"op": "showConfig", "path": []}',
+            'key': 'MY-HTTPS-API-PLAINTEXT-KEY'
+           }
+   headers = {}
+   response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data=payload)
+   print(response.text)
+
+
+*************
+API Endpoints
+*************
+
+/retrieve
+=========
+
+With the ``retrieve`` endpoint you get parts or the whole configuration.
+
+To get the whole configuration, pass an empty list to the ``path`` field 
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+   curl --location --request POST 'https://vyos/retrieve' \
+   --form data='{"op": "showConfig", "path": []}' \
+   --form key='MY-HTTPS-API-PLAINTEXT-KEY'
+
+
+   response (shorted)
+   {
+      "success": true,
+      "data": {
+         "interfaces": {
+               "ethernet": {
+                  "eth0": {
+                     "address": "dhcp",
+                     "duplex": "auto",
+                     "hw-id": "50:00:00:01:00:00",
+                     "speed": "auto"
+                  },
+                  "eth1": {
+                     "duplex": "auto",
+                     "hw-id": "50:00:00:01:00:01",
+                     "speed": "auto"
+      ...
+      },
+      "error": null
+   }
+
+
+only get a part of the configuration, 
+for example ``system syslog``.
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+   curl -k --location --request POST 'https://vyos/retrieve' \
+   --form data='{"op": "showConfig", "path": ["system", "syslog"]}' \
+   --form key='MY-HTTPS-API-PLAINTEXT-KEY'
+
+
+   response:
+   {
+      "success": true,
+      "data": {
+         "global": {
+               "facility": {
+                  "all": {
+                     "level": "info"
+                  },
+                  "protocols": {
+                     "level": "debug"
+                  }
+               }
+         }
+      },
+      "error": null
+   }
+
+if you just want the Value of a multi-valued node, use the ``returnValues``
+operation.
+
+for example get the addresses of a ``dum0`` interface
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+   curl -k --location --request POST 'https://vyos/retrieve' \
+   --form data='{"op": "returnValues", "path": ["interfaces","dummy","dum0","address"]}' \
+   --form key='MY-HTTPS-API-PLAINTEXT-KEY'
+
+   respone:
+   {
+      "success": true,
+      "data": [
+         "10.10.10.10/24",
+         "10.10.10.11/24",
+         "10.10.10.12/24"
+      ],
+      "error": null
+   }
+
+/image
+======
+
+To add or delete an image, use the ``/image`` endpoint.
+
+add an image
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+   curl -k --location --request POST 'https://vyos/image' \
+   --form data='{"op": "add", "url": "https://downloads.vyos.io/rolling/current/amd64/vyos-rolling-latest.iso"}' \
+   --form key='MY-HTTPS-API-PLAINTEXT-KEY'
+
+   respone (shorted):
+   {
+      "success": true,
+      "data": "Trying to fetch ISO file from https://downloads.vyos.io/rolling-latest.iso\n
+               ...
+               Setting up grub configuration...\nDone.\n",
+      "error": null
+   }
+
+delete an image, for example ``1.3-rolling-202006070117``
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+   curl -k --location --request POST 'https://vyos/image' \
+   --form data='{"op": "delete", "name": "1.3-rolling-202006070117"}' \
+   --form key='MY-HTTPS-API-PLAINTEXT-KEY'
+
+   response:
+   {
+      "success": true,
+      "data": "Deleting the \"1.3-rolling-202006070117\" image...\nDone\n",
+      "error": null
+   }
+
+
+/show
+=====
+
+The ``/show`` endpoint is to show everthing in operational mode
+
+for example which images are installed
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+   curl -k --location --request POST 'https://vyos/show' \
+   --form data='{"op": "show", "path": ["system", "image"]}' \
+   --form key='MY-HTTPS-API-PLAINTEXT-KEY'
+
+   response:
+   {
+      "success": true,
+      "data": "The system currently has the following image(s) installed:\n\n
+                1: 1.4-rolling-202102280559 (default boot)\n
+                2: 1.4-rolling-202102230218\n
+                3: 1.3-beta-202102210443\n\n",
+      "error": null
+   }
+
+
+/generate
+=========
+
+to run a ``generate`` command use the
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+   curl -k --location --request POST 'https://vyos/generate' \
+   --form data='{"op": "generate", "path": ["wireguard", "default-keypair"]}' \
+   --form key='MY-HTTPS-API-PLAINTEXT-KEY'
+
+   response:
+   {
+      "success": true,
+      "data": "",
+      "error": null
+   }
+
+
+/configure
+==========
+
+You can pass a ``set``, ``delete`` or ``comment`` command to the
+``/configure`` endpoint.
+
+``set`` a single command
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+   curl -k --location --request POST 'https://vyos/configure' \
+   --form data='{"op": "set", "path": ["interfaces", "dummy", "dum1", "address", "10.11.0.1/32"]}' \
+   --form key='MY-HTTPS-API-PLAINTEXT-KEY'
+
+   response:
+   {
+      "success": true,
+      "data": null,
+      "error": null
+   }
+
+
+``delete`` a single command
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+   curl -k --location --request POST 'https://vyos/configure' \
+   --form data='{"op": "delete", "path": ["interfaces", "dummy", "dum1", "address", "10.11.0.1/32"]}' \
+   --form key='MY-HTTPS-API-PLAINTEXT-KEY'
+
+   response:
+   {
+      "success": true,
+      "data": null,
+      "error": null
+   }
+
+The API push every request to a session and commit it.
+But some of VyOS components like DHCP and PPPoE Servers, IPSec, VXLAN, and
+other tunnels require full configuration for commit. 
+The Endpoint will process multiple commands when you pass them as a list to
+the ``data`` field.
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+   curl -k --location --request POST 'https://vyos/configure' \
+   --form data='[{"op": "set","path":["interfaces","vxlan","vxlan1","remote","203.0.113.99"]}, {"op": "set","path":["interfaces","vxlan","vxlan1","vni","1"]}]' \
+   --form key='MY-HTTPS-API-PLAINTEXT-KEY'
+
+   response:
+   {
+      "success": true,
+      "data": null,
+      "error": null
+   }
+
+
+/config-file
+============
+
+The endpoint ``/config-file`` is to save or load a configuration.
+
+Save a running configuration to the startup configuration.
+When you don't specify the file when saving, it saves to
+``/config/config.boot``.
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+   curl -k --location --request POST 'https://vyos/config-file' \
+   --form data='{"op": "save"}' \
+   --form key='MY-HTTPS-API-PLAINTEXT-KEY'
+
+   response:
+   {
+      "success": true,
+      "data": "Saving configuration to '/config/config.boot'...\nDone\n",
+      "error": null
+   }
+
+
+Save a running configuration to a file.
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+   curl -k --location --request POST 'https://vyos/config-file' \
+   --form data='{"op": "save", "file": "/config/test.config"}' \
+   --form key='MY-HTTPS-API-PLAINTEXT-KEY'
+
+   response:
+   {
+      "success": true,
+      "data": "Saving configuration to '/config/test.config'...\nDone\n",
+      "error": null
+   }
+
+
+To Load a configuration file.
+
+.. code-block:: none
+
+   curl -k --location --request POST 'https://vyos/config-file' \
+   --form data='{"op": "load", "file": "/config/test.config"}' \
+   --form key='MY-HTTPS-API-PLAINTEXT-KEY'
+
+   response:
+   {
+      "success": true,
+      "data": null,
+      "error": null
+   }
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