Managing companies and developers using Edge

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If you want more control over the companies and developers that participate in your monetized API program—for example, if you want to create in-house companies and developers for testing purposes—you can create companies and developers manually with the management UI and API.

A primary consideration that determines whether you need to create companies and developers manually is whether or not the developers will need credentials to sign in to the management UI, send credentials in calls to the Edge management API, or sign in to a developer portal.

• If your monetization developers need login credentials to access the Edge UI or API, they must first have their own Apigee adminstrator account.
• If you need to simply create test developers who don't need credentials (for example, if you want to make API calls with fictitious test developers), no Apigee accounts are required.

Managing app developers using the UI

Create, manage, and activate app developers using the Edge UI, as described in Managing app developers. After app developers are created, you can add them to companies, as described in the following sections.

Managing companies using the UI

Create, manage, and activate companies, as described in the following sections.

Exploring the Companies page

Access the Companies page, as described below.

Adding a company

To add a company:

1. Access the Companies page.
2. Click + Company.
3. Enter company details.

   Required fields include:

   • Company Name
   • Administrator (the user who is the primary company administrator)
   • Billing Type

   Depending on the monetization billing configuration, the Billing Type may default to PREPAID or POSTPAID. For more information, see Configure prepaid and postpaid billing types using the API.

4. Add one or more developers to the company.
   1. In the Developers section, enter a string in the Add Developer field to display the list of developers that match the string.
   2. Select a developer from the drop-down list.
   3. Repeat to add additional developers to the company.
5. Add one or more custom attributes.
   1. In the Custom attributes section, click + New.
   2. Enter the name and value of the custom attribute.
   3. Repeat to add additional custom attributes to the company.
6. Click Create company.

Activating and deactivating a company

To activate and deactivate a company:

1. Access the Company page.
2. Position the cursor over the company you want to activate and enable in the actions menu.
   Disable the toggle to deactivate the company.

Editing a company

To edit a company:

1. Access the Company page.
2. Position the cursor over the company you want to edit and click in the actions menu.
3. Update the company details, as required.
4. Click Update company to save the changes.

Deleting a company

To delete a company:

1. Access the Companies page.
2. Position the cursor over the company that you want to delete and click in the actions menu.
3. Click Delete to confirm the delete operation.

Managing companies and developers using the API

Using the API to manage companies and developers is described in the following sections.

Creating and updating companies and developers using the API

To manage companies and developers with the API Edge management API, refer to the following API sections:

• Create a company
• Create a developer
  Note: Configure monetization information when creating a developer by passing custom attributes.
• Add or update company developers
  Note: Optionally, you can assign a role to the developer, though it is not required. To get a list of developer roles, see Retrieving developer roles.
• List monetization configuration for all developers or for a single developer
  Note: Define the monetization information by passing custom attributes when creating or updating a developer. You can view the monetization custom attributes set using the standard (non-monetization) API to list all developers or single developer.

Managing developer roles using the API

You can create roles using monetization APIs. This enables you to establish roles for your partners. For example, you can establish administrator and application developer roles for a partner. Those roles can then be assigned to specific partner employees.

Creating a developer role

To create a developer role, issue a POST request to organizations/{org_name}/developer-roles. When you make the request, you need to specify in the request body the name and description of the role and the identification of the organization. For example:

$ curl -H "Content-Type:application/json" -X POST -d \
'{
   "name": "appDeveloper",
   "description": "App Developer",
   "organization": {
       "id": "{org_name}" 
   }  
 }' \
"https://api.enterprise.apigee.com/v1/mint/organizations/{org_name}/developer-roles" \
-u email:password

Retrieving developer roles

To retrieve developer roles, issue a GET request to organizations/{org_id}/developer-roles. For example:

$ curl -H "Accept:application/json" -X GET \
"https:// api.enterprise.apigee.com/v1/mint/organizations/{org_name}/developer-roles" \
-u email:password

The response should look something like this (only part of the response is shown):

{
  "description" : "App Developer",
  "id" : "appdeveloper",
  "name" : "appDeveloper",
  "organization" : {
   ...
  }
}

Developer role configuration settings for the API

The following developer role configuration options are exposed to the API:

Retrieving the tax rate for a developer using the API

You can get the current tax rate for a developer by issuing a GET request to organizations/{org_name}/tax-engine. When you make the request, you need to specify the identification of the developer as a query parameter. For example:

$ curl -H "Accept:application/json" -X GET \
"https://api.enterprise.apigee.com/v1/mint/organizations/{org_name}/tax-engine?developerId=dev7@myorg.com" \
-u email:password

The response should look something like this:

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Performing other developer-specific tasks using the API

Many of the monetization-related tasks that you can perform for an organization, such as creating rate plans or creating notification conditions, you can also perform for an individual developer. For example, you can create a bank account for a specific developer or generate a revenue report for a specific developer.

The following table lists developer-specific tasks that that you can perform using monetization APIs. The table also lists where you can find detailed instructions on performing these tasks.