[API] Get installed version and build

[Christopher]

Hi,

 

Is it possible to add an API call to return the current installed version and build number?

 

Best regards

Christopher

[support]

Hi Chris,

 

Yes, we can look at this if we have enough interest from customers. Alternatively, you can write your own SQL script to retrieve this information from the SystemSettings table. The fields are called Version and BuildNo.

Regards

Click Studios

[Christopher]

Thank you for your reply and workaround.

We've worked in a pretty extensive API automation in our environment so would like to not have to setup a read-only SQL account for that specific task but I'll wait to see if there is interest in this.

[support]

Okay, thanks Chris.

 

Can we ask why you need this? Are you trying to automate upgrades, because of you are you will not be able to full automate this - the second stage of the upgrade is upgrading your database, and this can only be done via the UI.

Regards

Click Studios

[Christopher]

Well at the moment it's needed for our monitoring setup to check if there is an update available and alert if it's getting too far behind. The monitoring setup would also use this to check if the API is functioning correctly.

It's also needed for our offline upgrade script to check if an update is necessary before continuing,  as it is now it will perform the update process regardless. The last part of the script is notifying a Security Admin that they need to complete the setup by logging in to the web interface and perform the database update.

 

Regards

Christopher

[support]

Okay, thanks Christopher.

[Mordecai]

+1

[aneumann]

+1