Pica8 Template API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Pica8 AmpCon Network Controller Template API
  version: 1.12.1
  summary: JSON REST API of the customer-deployed Pica8 AmpCon network controller.
  description: 'Machine-readable transcription of the REST API that Pica8 publishes for its AmpCon Network Controller.


    PROVENANCE — read before using. Pica8 does **not** publish an OpenAPI description. This document was transcribed by API Evangelist, operation by operation, from Pica8''s own published API reference: the `AmpCon 1.12.0 API document 20230625.docx` attachment on the public AmpCon documentation wiki page listed in `externalDocs` (page 753668, space `ampcon`, AmpCon version 1.12.1, update time 2023/06/25). Every path, method, header, request field, example value and error message below is copied from that document. Nothing has been invented, extrapolated or inferred: where the source document is incomplete or self-inconsistent that is recorded in `x-documentation-gaps` and in the affected operation''s description rather than being filled in. This is a derived artifact, not a first-party Pica8 contract.


    DEPLOYMENT — AmpCon is customer-installed software. There is no Pica8-hosted API endpoint; the server variable in `servers[]` is the operator''s own AmpCon appliance address, exactly as the source document writes it (`https://<ampcon-server-ip>/`).


    AUTHENTICATION — `POST /token` exchanges AmpCon web login credentials for a JWT, which is then sent as `Authorization: Bearer <token>`. Only `superadmin` users may mint a token or call the API.


    ERROR SIGNALLING — AmpCon reports outcome in the response BODY, in a `status` or `status_code` field (200 / 400 / 500), together with a human-readable `msg`, `message` or `info` string. The document does not guarantee that the HTTP status line mirrors the body, so clients must read the body.'
  contact:
    name: Pica8 Support
    url: https://www.pica8.com/support/
  x-provenance:
    method: derived
    derived-by: API Evangelist enrichment pipeline
    derived-on: '2026-08-26'
    derived-from: 'https://pica8-fs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ampcon/pages/753668/AmpCon+API+document (attachment: AmpCon 1.12.0 API document 20230625.docx, AmpCon version 1.12.1, update time 2023/06/25)'
    first-party: false
    verbatim: false
    note: Transcribed from the provider's published prose/Word API reference. Not published by Pica8 as OpenAPI.
  x-documentation-gaps:
  - operation: Upgrade switch (section 4.11)
    gap: The URL in the published document is truncated to `https://<ampcon-server-ip>/api/` and the HTTP method field is blank. Content-Type is multipart/form-data and the input is `[sn, files]`. The path was NOT guessed and the operation is therefore absent from paths[].
  - operation: Group schedule upgrade (section 4.18)
    gap: The URL in the published document is truncated to `https://<ampcon-server-ip>/api/`. Method POST, Content-Type multipart/form-data, input `[name, start_date, end_date, files]`. Path not guessed; operation absent from paths[].
  - operation: Run playbook (section 6.4)
    gap: The URL in the published document is truncated to `https://<ampcon-server-ip>/api/`. Method POST, Content-Type application/json, input includes playbook_name, playbook_dir, switches[], switch_checkall, group_list[], vars and a scheduled object with type DIRECT|ONCE|SCHEDULED. Path not guessed; operation absent from paths[].
  - operation: Get configuration file by name (section 3.4.2)
    gap: The published document gives the same URL (`/api/config_files`) for both the list and the filter-by-name variant, with no name parameter. Only the list form is described here.
  - operation: Delete group (section 4.17)
    gap: The published document assigns `POST /api/switch/groups/update` to BOTH group update and group delete. Modelled as a single overloaded operation.
  - operation: Update AmpCon login user (section 5.3)
    gap: The published document records the method as GET while also specifying a JSON request body. Transcribed as documented.
servers:
- url: https://{ampcon-server-ip}
  description: Customer-deployed AmpCon Network Controller. Written `https://<ampcon-server-ip>/` in the source document.
  variables:
    ampcon-server-ip:
      default: ampcon.example.internal
      description: Address of the operator's own AmpCon server.
security:
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Template
  description: Jinja2 configuration templates and their declared variables.
paths:
  /api/templates:
    get:
      operationId: getTemplates
      summary: Get templates list
      description: Returns every configuration template on the AmpCon server, including its Jinja2 body, declared parameters, target platform and tag.
      tags:
      - Template
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Template list.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  type: object
                  properties:
                    name:
                      type: string
                    description:
                      type: string
                    content:
                      type: string
                    j2_template:
                      type: string
                    tag:
                      type: string
                    params:
                      type: string
                    platform:
                      type: string
  /api/templates/{template_name}:
    get:
      operationId: getTemplateByName
      summary: Get template information by name
      description: Returns a single configuration template filtered by name.
      tags:
      - Template
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Template.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  type: object
                  properties:
                    name:
                      type: string
                    description:
                      type: string
                    content:
                      type: string
                    j2_template:
                      type: string
                    tag:
                      type: string
                    params:
                      type: string
                    platform:
                      type: string
      parameters:
      - name: template_name
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Template name.
  /api/templates/add:
    post:
      operationId: addTemplate
      summary: Add new template
      description: Creates a new configuration template. Fails when the hardware model named in `platform` has not been configured on the controller, or when a template of the same name already exists.
      tags:
      - Template
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success. AmpCon returns a message plus a status/status_code field in the body; the HTTP status line is not the primary error signal.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  msg:
                    type: string
                  status_code:
                    type: integer
                  status:
                    type: integer
                  info:
                    type: string
                  message:
                    type: string
              example:
                msg: success
                status_code: 200
        '500':
          description: Documented error response. AmpCon reports the failure in the body (`status` / `status_code` of 400 or 500) alongside a human-readable message.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  msg:
                    type: string
                  status_code:
                    type: integer
                  status:
                    type: integer
                  info:
                    type: string
                  message:
                    type: string
              example:
                msg: Template <name> exists
                status_code: 500
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                name:
                  type: string
                platform:
                  type: string
                content:
                  type: string
                description:
                  type: string
                action:
                  type: string
                  enum:
                  - Config
                  - Delete
              required:
              - name
              - platform
              - content
            example:
              name: <template-name>
              platform: <platform-name>
              content: <jinja2-template-string>
              description: <template-desc>
              action: Config
  /api/templates/update:
    post:
      operationId: updateTemplate
      summary: Update template
      description: 'Updates an existing template. `type` selects what is being replaced: `template_var` rewrites the variable definitions (default, type, description, param_check), `j2_template` rewrites the Jinja2 body.'
      tags:
      - Template
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success. AmpCon returns a message plus a status/status_code field in the body; the HTTP status line is not the primary error signal.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  msg:
                    type: string
                  status_code:
                    type: integer
                  status:
                    type: integer
                  info:
                    type: string
                  message:
                    type: string
              example:
                msg: success
                status_code: 200
        '500':
          description: Documented error response. AmpCon reports the failure in the body (`status` / `status_code` of 400 or 500) alongside a human-readable message.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  msg:
                    type: string
                  status_code:
                    type: integer
                  status:
                    type: integer
                  info:
                    type: string
                  message:
                    type: string
              example:
                msg: template_name <name> does not exist
                status_code: 500
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                file_name:
                  type: string
                content: {}
                type:
                  type: string
                  enum:
                  - template_var
                  - j2_template
              required:
              - file_name
              - content
              - type
            example:
              file_name: <template-name>
              content: <jinja2-template-string>
              type: j2_template
  /api/templates/delete:
    post:
      operationId: deleteTemplate
      summary: Delete template
      description: Deletes an existing template by name.
      tags:
      - Template
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success. AmpCon returns a message plus a status/status_code field in the body; the HTTP status line is not the primary error signal.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  msg:
                    type: string
                  status_code:
                    type: integer
                  status:
                    type: integer
                  info:
                    type: string
                  message:
                    type: string
              example:
                msg: success
                status_code: 200
        '500':
          description: Documented error response. AmpCon reports the failure in the body (`status` / `status_code` of 400 or 500) alongside a human-readable message.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  msg:
                    type: string
                  status_code:
                    type: integer
                  status:
                    type: integer
                  info:
                    type: string
                  message:
                    type: string
              example:
                msg: template_name <name> does not exist
                status_code: 500
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                name:
                  type: string
              required:
              - name
            example:
              name: <template-name>
components:
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT
      description: 'JWT minted by POST /token from AmpCon web login credentials. Only `superadmin` level users may mint a token. Sent as `Authorization: Bearer <token>`. An expired or invalid token returns the message `Invalid Token`.'
externalDocs:
  description: Pica8 AmpCon API document (source of this transcription)
  url: https://pica8-fs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ampcon/pages/753668/AmpCon+API+document