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Page Status: Copied from Guilin-R7 - Aug-24-2020
Component Status: Pending PTL updates and ArchCom Review

Last Reviewed on:  Jan-12-2020

Certified by: Adrian OSullivan

External API:

1 High Level Component Definition and Architectural Relationships 

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External API exposes ONAPs capabilities through TMF standardized interfaces.  It enables ONAP to hide the internal API.

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  • Exposes the ONAP service catalogue capabilities

  • Exposes the ONAP inventory capabilities

  • Exposes ONAP Service Ordering capabilities

  • Interfaces to manage subscription to ExternalAPI events 

2. API definitions

External API provides the following interfaces:

Interface NameInterface Definition Interface CapabilitiesAPI Spec (Swagger)
ExternalAPIE-1 NBI Management Interface

Provides a healthcheck to verify that the NBI component is running fine


Provides:
  • Healthcheck of a NBI service
https://docs.onap.org/projects/onap-externalapi-nbi/en/latest/_downloads/350675a49dbe01d7970309dac13aaa30/swagger.json
ExternalAPIE-2 Subscription Management Interface

Provides the ability to subscribe to and unsubscribe from External API events.

(also known as the External API Hub interface) 

Provides:
  • Create/Delete a Notification
  • List notification
  • Retrieve a notification
  • Listen to notifications
https://docs.onap.org/projects/onap-externalapi-nbi/en/latest/_downloads/7a0359a1069cff9bb3f7db69109b5294/swagger.json
ExternalAPIE-3 Service Catalogue Interface Find service specifications that can be instantiated

 Provides:

  • Search for services in the catalogue (with filters)
  • Retrieve a service specification from the catalogue
https://docs.onap.org/projects/onap-externalapi-nbi/en/latest/_downloads/ca979e4ad0e48c22d6e62f403b4b0c7c/swagger.json
ExternalAPIE-4 Service Ordering Interface Request the instantiation of a service

 Provides

  • Search for service orders
  • Retrieve a service order
  • Request a service instantiation
https://docs.onap.org/projects/onap-externalapi-nbi/en/latest/_downloads/9450323ada78d8f7eeb360141ed68b63/swagger.json
ExternalAPIE-5 Service Inventory Interface Query information about instantiated services Provides
  • Search for instantiated Services
  • Retrieve information about an instantiated order
https://docs.onap.org/projects/onap-externalapi-nbi/en/latest/_downloads/58f285f89bb1416ea0a0ceec1e325800/swagger.json

Note:   xxxI interface is a Component internal interface.  xxxxE interface is a component external interface

The current offered API documents including swagger and ReDoc version can be found at:

ExternalAPI consumes the following Interfaces:

The current consumer API documents can be found at:

3. Component Description:

A more detailed figure and description of the component.

<< For later inclusion >>

4. Known system limitations

  • FFSNo default RBAC on APIs


5. Used Models

ExternalAPI uses the following models:

  • -Models used are as per Objects defined in the Swagger.

6. System Deployment Architecture


7. New Capabilities in this Release

8. References

  1. External API architecture: https://docs.onap.org/en/latest/submodules/externalapi/nbi.git/docs/releasenotes/releasenotes.html
  2. External API interface: https://docs.onap.org/en/casablanca/_downloads/8cce799c6c8f3f5916f265c52ab60ba7/nbicallflow.pdf 

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