Has anyone taken to managing LogicModules via the API in APIv3? My immediate use case is to facilitate self-service (but ‘gated’) functionality to my end users, while ensuring that we don’t need to confer administrative access to said users. By leveraging GitHub, we can stand up workflows that will allow us to audit and approve myriad LogicModules at first, and establish version control so that, if someone makes a bad change, we can quickly fix/revert.
That said, it appears APIv3 no longer supports DataSource imports, and it seems like this is due to less buy-in from the community, where folks tend to leverage the Exchange more readily than APIs.
So, on that front, a few thoughts:
- I’m intuiting that I can introspect some of the API calls via the browser to PUT/POST/GET DataSources -- has anyone reverse engineered these and leveraged them?
- I understand this amounts to a hack, and that there are likely unknown pitfalls to doing this - If anyone has done this and can share some wisdom, that would be great
- Are there other opportunities to implement our own version control/workflows for managing these? e.g. is there a way to facilitate this through the Exchange?
- I have a strong desire to limit administrative tasks for importing an unprivileged user to the click of a button (e.g. a Pull Request approval) so as to limit the amount of hands-on work my team needs to do to facilitate datasources developed by other teams
- If leveraging the API is a non-starter (due to reliability, hackiness, myriad other pit falls), is anyone implementing a strategy to democratize LogicModule management to unprivileged users?
- I’ve not been able to introspect any reasonable paths to facilitating this (apart from having users build DataSources in Sandbox, and then we import them to Production), and it seems like the only way to do this would be to give our users Admin access to manage their datasources via the GUI -- obviously this is an immensely bad idea, so we won’t be doing this :)
Does anyone have any wisdom to share on the subject, philosophical or practical?
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