Need a CloudShell Sandbox API call that will return the tile image file of a given blueprint

Hi @daklinge,

Can you add some details about the use case here?

Also, not sure if it helps or ideal for your case, but you can use the Quali API to export a package of a blueprint (same as if you go to the blueprint menu and export a package from there). This will then give you a zip file with the all the information about this blueprint, one of the files inside will be the blueprint tile image (in the Topologies folder).

http://help.quali.com/Online%20Help/8.0.0.7003/API-Guide/Content/API/RefGuides/QualiAPI/Quali-API-REST.html#Export%20Package

Here's the use case. At Cisco DevNet we have a customer facing implementation of CloudShell. There are different web pages within DevNet that use the Sandbox Tile image as a direct link to a CloudShell blueprint. Here is such a page: https://developer.cisco.com/site/iox/. If you go to the section "Test your code in the IOx Sandbox", you see a tile image.

But now we have TWO copies of the tile image. One in CloudShell, and one for the web page. And now we have the problem of the images getting out of sync.

If you could provide us a CloudShell Sandbox API call that would return a blueprint's image (or a pointer to the image), then the web page could dynamically call the API to display the image that is currently associated to the blueprint. There would only be ONE copy of the tile image - and thus would eliminate the issue of being out of sync.

Is this idea being considered? Dan provided some background on his usecase for this API call! Would love to see if this would be possible through the Sandbox API!

Hi, right now this is not planned for the Sandbox API since as far as we know this functionality would not be useful for most of our users. If anyone in the community is interested in this please vote. The workaround that Yaniv suggested is indeed an alternative.

Regards,

Maya