Equinix Licenses API

Manage licenses. See project endpoints to list and create licenses for a particular project.

Operations 5

DELETE /licenses/{id} Delete the license #
GET /licenses/{id} Retrieve a license #
PUT /licenses/{id} Update the license #
GET /projects/{id}/licenses Retrieve all licenses #
POST /projects/{id}/licenses Create a License #

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OpenAPI Specification

equinix-licenses-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  contact:
    email: support@equinixmetal.com
    name: Equinix Metal API Team
  description: '# Introduction

    Equinix Metal provides a RESTful HTTP API which can be reached at .'
  license:
    name: Equinix Metal
    url: https://metal.equinix.com/legal/
  termsOfService: https://metal.equinix.com/legal/
  title: Metal Licenses API
  version: 1.0.0
servers:
- url: https://api.equinix.com/metal/v1
security:
- x_auth_token: []
tags:
- description: Manage licenses. See project endpoints to list and create licenses for a particular project.
  externalDocs:
    url: https://metal.equinix.com/developers/docs/operating-systems/licensed/
  name: Licenses
paths:
  /licenses/{id}:
    delete:
      description: Deletes a license.
      operationId: deleteLicense
      parameters:
      - description: License UUID
        in: path
        name: id
        required: true
        schema:
          format: uuid
          type: string
      responses:
        '204':
          description: no content
        '401':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
          description: unauthorized
        '403':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
          description: forbidden
        '404':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
          description: not found
      summary: Delete the license
      tags:
      - Licenses
    get:
      description: Returns a license
      operationId: findLicenseById
      parameters:
      - description: License UUID
        in: path
        name: id
        required: true
        schema:
          format: uuid
          type: string
      - description: 'Nested attributes to include. Included objects will return their full

          attributes. Attribute names can be dotted (up to 3 levels) to included deeply

          nested objects.'
        explode: false
        in: query
        name: include
        schema:
          items:
            type: string
          type: array
        style: form
      - description: 'Nested attributes to exclude. Excluded objects will return only the href

          attribute. Attribute names can be dotted (up to 3 levels) to exclude deeply

          nested objects.'
        explode: false
        in: query
        name: exclude
        schema:
          items:
            type: string
          type: array
        style: form
      responses:
        '200':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/License'
          description: ok
        '401':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
          description: unauthorized
        '403':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
          description: forbidden
        '404':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
          description: not found
      summary: Retrieve a license
      tags:
      - Licenses
    put:
      description: Updates the license.
      operationId: updateLicense
      parameters:
      - description: License UUID
        in: path
        name: id
        required: true
        schema:
          format: uuid
          type: string
      - description: 'Nested attributes to include. Included objects will return their full

          attributes. Attribute names can be dotted (up to 3 levels) to included deeply

          nested objects.'
        explode: false
        in: query
        name: include
        schema:
          items:
            type: string
          type: array
        style: form
      - description: 'Nested attributes to exclude. Excluded objects will return only the href

          attribute. Attribute names can be dotted (up to 3 levels) to exclude deeply

          nested objects.'
        explode: false
        in: query
        name: exclude
        schema:
          items:
            type: string
          type: array
        style: form
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/LicenseUpdateInput'
        description: License to update
        required: true
      responses:
        '200':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/License'
          description: ok
        '401':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
          description: unauthorized
        '403':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
          description: forbidden
        '404':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
          description: not found
        '422':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
          description: unprocessable entity
      summary: Update the license
      tags:
      - Licenses
  /projects/{id}/licenses:
    get:
      description: Provides a collection of licenses for a given project.
      operationId: findProjectLicenses
      parameters:
      - description: Project UUID
        in: path
        name: id
        required: true
        schema:
          format: uuid
          type: string
      - description: 'Nested attributes to include. Included objects will return their full

          attributes. Attribute names can be dotted (up to 3 levels) to included deeply

          nested objects.'
        explode: false
        in: query
        name: include
        schema:
          items:
            type: string
          type: array
        style: form
      - description: 'Nested attributes to exclude. Excluded objects will return only the href

          attribute. Attribute names can be dotted (up to 3 levels) to exclude deeply

          nested objects.'
        explode: false
        in: query
        name: exclude
        schema:
          items:
            type: string
          type: array
        style: form
      - description: Page to return
        in: query
        name: page
        schema:
          default: 1
          format: int32
          maximum: 100000
          minimum: 1
          type: integer
      - description: Items returned per page
        in: query
        name: per_page
        schema:
          default: 10
          format: int32
          maximum: 1000
          minimum: 1
          type: integer
      responses:
        '200':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/LicenseList'
          description: ok
        '401':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
          description: unauthorized
        '403':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
          description: forbidden
        '404':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
          description: not found
      summary: Retrieve all licenses
      tags:
      - Licenses
    post:
      description: Creates a new license for the given project
      operationId: createLicense
      parameters:
      - description: Project UUID
        in: path
        name: id
        required: true
        schema:
          format: uuid
          type: string
      - description: 'Nested attributes to include. Included objects will return their full

          attributes. Attribute names can be dotted (up to 3 levels) to included deeply

          nested objects.'
        explode: false
        in: query
        name: include
        schema:
          items:
            type: string
          type: array
        style: form
      - description: 'Nested attributes to exclude. Excluded objects will return only the href

          attribute. Attribute names can be dotted (up to 3 levels) to exclude deeply

          nested objects.'
        explode: false
        in: query
        name: exclude
        schema:
          items:
            type: string
          type: array
        style: form
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/LicenseCreateInput'
        description: License to create
        required: true
      responses:
        '201':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/License'
          description: created
        '401':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
          description: unauthorized
        '403':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
          description: forbidden
        '404':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
          description: not found
        '422':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
          description: unprocessable entity
      summary: Create a License
      tags:
      - Licenses
components:
  schemas:
    LicenseUpdateInput:
      example:
        size: 0.8008281904610115
        description: description
      properties:
        description:
          type: string
        size:
          type: number
      type: object
    LicenseList:
      example:
        licenses:
        - licensee_product:
            href: href
          size: 0.8008281904610115
          description: description
          project:
            href: href
          id: 046b6c7f-0b8a-43b9-b35d-6489e6daee91
          license_key: license_key
        - licensee_product:
            href: href
          size: 0.8008281904610115
          description: description
          project:
            href: href
          id: 046b6c7f-0b8a-43b9-b35d-6489e6daee91
          license_key: license_key
      properties:
        licenses:
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/License'
          type: array
      type: object
    Href:
      example:
        href: href
      properties:
        href:
          type: string
      required:
      - href
      type: object
    Error:
      description: Error responses are included with 4xx and 5xx HTTP responses from the API service. Either "error" or "errors" will be set.
      properties:
        error:
          description: A description of the error that caused the request to fail.
          type: string
        errors:
          description: A list of errors that contributed to the request failing.
          items:
            description: An error message that contributed to the request failing.
            type: string
          type: array
      type: object
    LicenseCreateInput:
      example:
        size: 0.8008281904610115
        licensee_product_id: licensee_product_id
        description: description
      properties:
        description:
          type: string
        licensee_product_id:
          type: string
        size:
          type: number
      type: object
    License:
      example:
        licensee_product:
          href: href
        size: 0.8008281904610115
        description: description
        project:
          href: href
        id: 046b6c7f-0b8a-43b9-b35d-6489e6daee91
        license_key: license_key
      properties:
        description:
          type: string
        id:
          format: uuid
          type: string
        license_key:
          type: string
        licensee_product:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Href'
        project:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Href'
        size:
          type: number
      type: object
  securitySchemes:
    x_auth_token:
      description: 'HTTP header containing the User or Project API key that will be used to authenticate the request.

        '
      in: header
      name: X-Auth-Token
      type: apiKey
      x-displayName: X-Auth-Token
x-tagGroups:
- name: Accounts and Organization
  tags:
  - Authentication
  - Emails
  - Invitations
  - Memberships
  - Organizations
  - OTPs
  - PasswordResetTokens
  - PaymentMethods
  - Projects
  - SSHKeys
  - SupportRequest
  - TransferRequests
  - TwoFactorAuth
  - Users
  - UserVerificationTokens
- name: Services and Billing
  tags:
  - Events
  - Facilities
  - Incidents
  - Invoices
  - Licenses
  - Metros
  - Plans
  - Usages
- name: Servers
  tags:
  - Devices
  - Batches
  - Capacity
  - HardwareReservations
  - OperatingSystems
  - Ports
  - SelfServiceReservations
  - SpotMarket
  - Userdata
  - Volumes
- name: Networking
  tags:
  - BGP
  - Interconnections
  - IPAddresses
  - MetalGateways
  - VLANs
  - VRFs