Developer API Limitations

[bud]

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.

[roland-daane]

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.

[bud]

@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.

[bud]

@daa

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

[harish]

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.

[bud]

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.