topic Re: Developer API Limitations in Workato Pros Discussion Board

Developer API Limitations

bud — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 05:29:45 GMT

Hi, I'm trying to get information about recipes our team has created via the Developer API (https://docs.workato.com/workato-api.html#workato-api). In particular, I'd like to know who created the latest version of the recipe to attribute them as the owner. I've used both `GET /api/recipes` and `GET /api/recipes/:id`. Neither seem to have access to this info. I had a glimmer of hope that `GET /api/recipes/:id` would have what I wanted in the `author_name` field but at least for me, it returned a string representing a user that didn't create or update the recipe I was looking at. Is there some secret hidden APIs I can use that aren't documented here: https://docs.workato.com/workato-api/recipes.html? Thanks.

Re: Developer API Limitations

harish — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 08:16:28 GMT

This is not supported right now. Will be a good feature to support

-Harish Shetty

Re: Developer API Limitations

roland-daane — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 12:40:11 GMT

Have you looked at recipe Ops?

Re: Developer API Limitations

max-knutsson — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 13:47:57 GMT

Hi Bud, so the question is to get "author_name" that only modified the recipe? now can get the original creator via Recipe Ops or API

Re: Developer API Limitations

max-knutsson — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 13:48:48 GMT

Actually if you check my Image, there is "Last-version" that is provided by Recipe Ops connector. Which should be the name of the last editor for version X

Re: Developer API Limitations

roland-daane — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 14:40:59 GMT

What you should do is run the recipe ops regularly.

I’ve created a whole admin page in a sharePoint site where the recipe statuses can be seen, people can start stop recipes etc.

If you store the data, you’ll have the creator and people that have updated together with the person that last changed it.

Re: Developer API Limitations

bud — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 21:50:55 GMT

@max

Yeah I'm trying to get the person that last modified the recipe. For us anyway, who created the recipe is less useful than knowing who has recently modified it.

@daa

By recipe ops, do you mean this:

https://docs.workato.com/workato-api/recipe-lifecycle-management.html#recipe-lifecycle-management

I pulled stuff down manually and I don't see anything it there that would help either.

Re: Developer API Limitations

bud — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 21:58:26 GMT

@daa

Now I think see what you are getting at. I could probably do that. Do you run that on a schedule?

Re: Developer API Limitations

harish — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 12:23:34 GMT

Today, we released an update to the platform API. The recipe details endpoint(https://docs.workato.com/workato-api.html) returns a new field called version_author_name. This endpoint is available in the OEM API also.

Re: Developer API Limitations

bud — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 01:30:57 GMT

What is this magic power I have that I can ask a vendor for a minor feature and it appears less than a week later?

In a dream world, this same data would be in the data returned in the call to list the recipes (GET /api/recipes) too. Would save iterating over each recipe to get that extra data.