Updating Expiration Date on Licenses

Packaging an application
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An example use case for using the Vendor API is license maintenance. This example will show how to extend the expiration dates of all licenses in a specific channels.

Prerequisites

  1. An API Token with Read/Write access
  2. The target App ID
  3. The target Channel ID

For details on how to get the App ID and Channel ID, refer to Finding Your API Token and App ID. These values will not change and should be supplied as static values to your license updating script.

1) Get all outstanding licenses

To start, get all the licenses that have been issued for a specific app:

curl -X GET \
    -H 'Authorization: <YOUR-API-TOKEN>' \
    https://api.replicated.com/vendor/v2/app/<YOUR-APP-ID>/licenses

2) Find expiring licenses

Iterate through the returned array from step 1 to create a new array that contains all licenses where “ChannelId” fields match your target channel ID. Select the licenses you want to extend from this array.

3) Update expiring licenses

Issue a single API call to the Vendor API for each license in the array to update the expiration date. An example of this (using cURL) is:

curl -X PUT \
    -H 'Authorization: <YOUR-API-TOKEN>' \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    https://api.replicated.com/vendor/v2/license/<YOUR-LICENSE-ID> \
    -d '{"license_type":"dev",
        "activation_email": false,
        "airgap_download_enabled": false,
        "assignee":"Original Assignee Name",
        "update_policy":"manual",
        "channel_id":"<YOUR-CHANNEL-ID>",
        "expiration_date":"2018-03-13",
        "expiration_policy":"ignore",
        "require_activation":false}'