In this article, we will look at how to forward the machine payload to a REST endpoint with an ABX Action. If you want to trigger an ABX action, you can use the subscriptions in vRealize Automation Cloud. Subscriptions will trigger ABX Actions based on event topics.

You can see sample event topics below.

Once a subscription will create, you have to choose an event topic. Let’s say, we want to trigger a subscription in Deployment Requested.

The following parameters will be defined on Deployment requested stage of Deployment service.

Key	Data Type	Description
blueprintId	string	Cloud template ID
blueprintVersion	string	Cloud template version
catalogItemId	string	Catalog item ID
catalogItemVersion	string	Catalog item version
deploymentId	string	Deployment ID
eventType	string	Deployment request event type: CREATE_DEPLOYMENT / UPDATE_DEPLOYMENT / DESTROY_DEPLOYMENT
id	string	Deployment request ID
requestInputs	complex	Deployment request inputs
requestType	string	Deployment request type: BLUEPRINT / CATALOG

We can now choose an ABX Action but we have to create it. You can see a REST template below in Python.

def handler(context, inputs):
    import requests
    import json
    import datetime as date
    
    data = {
        "inputs": inputs
    }
    
    now = date.datetime.now()
    shortDate = now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
    shortTime = now.strftime("%H:%M:%S")

    payload = {
        "id": inputs["id"],
        "date": shortDate + " " + shortTime,
        "data": data
    }
    
    baseURL = inputs["endpoint"]
    headers = {
        "Authorization": "Bearer XXxXX"
    }

    payload = json.dumps(payload)
    
    response = requests.post(baseURL, data=payload, headers=headers)
    print("Status Code " + str(response.status_code))
    
    return str(response.status_code)

Don’t forget to add requests to dependency because FaaS Provider will install the library. If you don’t add you will see this error: “ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘requests’“. Also, you should add your REST endpoint as an input with ‘endpoint‘ key.

You can find the source code in my GitHub account as well.

https://github.com/umitdemirtas/abx-action-to-doing-rest-call

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