wowza rest api to php script - php

Question

im new to php and wowza and was wondering if anyone can point me to a tutorial on how to use this wowza curl api with php? ive tried searching but cant find the answer anywhere so i came here. what im trying to achive is run this curl via php from a remote computer
this is one of the curl id like to convert to php script however i cant seem to find where or how i should start
curl -X POST --header 'Accept:application/json; charset=utf-8' --header 'Content-type:application/json; charset=utf-8' http://localhost:8087/v2/servers/_defaultServer_/vhosts/_defaultVHost_/applications/testlive -d'
{
"restURI": "http://localhost:8087/v2/servers/_defaultServer_/vhosts/_defaultVHost_/applications/testlive",
"name": "testlive",
"appType": "Live",
"description": "Testing our Rest Service",
"streamConfig": {
"restURI": "http://localhost:8087/v2/servers/_defaultServer_/vhosts/_defaultVHost_/applications/testlive/streamconfiguration",
"streamType": "live"
},
"securityConfig": {
"restURI": "http://localhost:8087/v2/servers/_defaultServer_/vhosts/_defaultVHost_/applications/testlive/security",
"secureTokenVersion": 0,
"clientStreamWriteAccess": "*",
"publishRequirePassword": true,
"publishPasswordFile": "",
"publishRTMPSecureURL": "",
"publishIPBlackList": "",
"publishIPWhiteList": "",
"publishBlockDuplicateStreamNames": false,
"publishValidEncoders": "",
"publishAuthenticationMethod": "digest",
"playMaximumConnections": 0,
"playRequireSecureConnection": false,
"secureTokenSharedSecret": "",
"secureTokenUseTEAForRTMP": false,
"secureTokenIncludeClientIPInHash": false,
"secureTokenHashAlgorithm": "",
"secureTokenQueryParametersPrefix": "",
"secureTokenOriginSharedSecret": "",
"playIPBlackList": "",
"playIPWhiteList": "",
"playAuthenticationMethod": "none"
},
"modules": {
"restURI": "http://localhost:8087/v2/servers/_defaultServer_/vhosts/_defaultVHost_/applications/testlive/modules",
"moduleList": [
{
"order": 0,
"name": "base",
"description": "Base",
"class": "com.wowza.wms.module.ModuleCore"
},
{
"order": 1,
"name": "logging",
"description": "Client Logging",
"class": "com.wowza.wms.module.ModuleClientLogging"
},
{
"order": 2,
"name": "flvplayback",
"description": "FLVPlayback",
"class": "com.wowza.wms.module.ModuleFLVPlayback"
},
{
"order": 3,
"name": "ModuleCoreSecurity",
"description": "Core Security Module for Applications",
"class": "com.wowza.wms.security.ModuleCoreSecurity"
}
]
}
}'

Answer 1

As mentioned above, take a look at php cURL extension. Then check out the following example script:
// If you have digest auth turned on, switch this to true.
$useDigest = false;
$username = "admin";
$password = "pass";
$json = '{
"restURI": "http://localhost:8087/v2/servers/_defaultServer_/vhosts/_defaultVHost_/applications/stackoverflow",
"name": "stackoverflow",
"appType": "Live",
"description": "Testing our Rest Service",
"streamConfig": {
"restURI": "http://localhost:8087/v2/servers/_defaultServer_/vhosts/_defaultVHost_/applications/stackoverflow/streamconfiguration",
"streamType": "live"
},
"securityConfig": {
"restURI": "http://localhost:8087/v2/servers/_defaultServer_/vhosts/_defaultVHost_/applications/stackoverflow/security",
"secureTokenVersion": 0,
"clientStreamWriteAccess": "*",
"publishRequirePassword": true,
"publishPasswordFile": "",
"publishRTMPSecureURL": "",
"publishIPBlackList": "",
"publishIPWhiteList": "",
"publishBlockDuplicateStreamNames": false,
"publishValidEncoders": "",
"publishAuthenticationMethod": "digest",
"playMaximumConnections": 0,
"playRequireSecureConnection": false,
"secureTokenSharedSecret": "",
"secureTokenUseTEAForRTMP": false,
"secureTokenIncludeClientIPInHash": false,
"secureTokenHashAlgorithm": "",
"secureTokenQueryParametersPrefix": "",
"secureTokenOriginSharedSecret": "",
"playIPBlackList": "",
"playIPWhiteList": "",
"playAuthenticationMethod": "none"
},
"modules": {
"restURI": "http://localhost:8087/v2/servers/_defaultServer_/vhosts/_defaultVHost_/applications/stackoverflow/modules",
"moduleList": [
{
"order": 0,
"name": "base",
"description": "Base",
"class": "com.wowza.wms.module.ModuleCore"
},
{
"order": 1,
"name": "logging",
"description": "Client Logging",
"class": "com.wowza.wms.module.ModuleClientLogging"
},
{
"order": 2,
"name": "flvplayback",
"description": "FLVPlayback",
"class": "com.wowza.wms.module.ModuleFLVPlayback"
},
{
"order": 3,
"name": "ModuleCoreSecurity",
"description": "Core Security Module for Applications",
"class": "com.wowza.wms.security.ModuleCoreSecurity"
}
]
}
}';
$ch = curl_init("http://localhost:8087/v2/servers/_defaultServer_/vhosts/_defaultVHost_/applications/stackoverflow");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $json);
if($useDigest){
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username . ":" . $password);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_DIGEST);
}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'Accept:application/json; charset=utf-8',
'Content-type:application/json; charset=utf-8',
'Content-Length: '.strlen($json)
));
$contents = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$response = json_decode($contents);
var_dump($response);
This will yield similar output to the following:
object(stdClass)#1 (3) {
["success"]=>
bool(true)
["message"]=>
string(49) "Application (stackoverflow) created successfully."
["data"]=>
NULL
}
You can find several other cURL examples that you can simply manipulate the JSON being sent along with the verb type (in this case POST) to further leverage the REST API.
An example of a GET request to retrieve your existing applications, you can remove the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS cURL option and modify the following lines:
$ch = curl_init("http://localhost:8087/v2/servers/_defaultServer_/vhosts/_defaultVHost_/applications");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "GET");