How to create an openhab rule via rest api?

[akibnafis (Akib Jawad Nafis)]

How can I create rules via openhab rest api?
Is there any documentation or guideline?

I have bunch of rules in a .rules file. I want this file while creating rules via rest api. Is there any tool for that?

[stefan.hoehn (Stefan Höhn)]

What do mean with " I want this file"?

What do you want to achieve and what do you need the API for?

[Wolfgang_S]

@akibnafis

I have bunch of rules in a .rules file. I want this file while creating rules via rest api. Is there any tool for that?

As far as I understand the api-explorer online documentation you would have to use “POST /rules”.
I didn’t find any example but these two threads:

Can i create rules via the REST-API?

Hi i just recently started playing with openhab2 and one thing that i’m missing is an easy way to do scenes. So i was looking into creating a little web-app to help with that. So what i want to do is this: get a list of all Items filtered by group and/or type let the user select multiple items let the user enter a name for the scene create a Switch Item for the scene create a rule that sets the state of all selected items to their current states Now i have been playing with the REST-API and …

Python or other language REST API

Hi all, I have been experimenting with the python REST API https://pypi.org/project/python-openhab/ and it seems to be working well for basic commands and what I want it to do. I was just wondering if there was any useful info/tips anyone has gained from using the REST API through python that they would like to share? Possibly even if anyone has had a better experience using the REST API with a different language other than python? Thanks

Based on the first one I would suggest to create a rule manually via the UI and compare the parameter that you havein the code explorer via the code in your rule.

[akibnafis (Akib Jawad Nafis)]

I have a x.rule file, I want use this rule file to generate post request to openhab. Using the post request I want create automation rules.
Can I do that? Is there any guidance for that?

[akibnafis (Akib Jawad Nafis)]

Thanks everyone for their input. Much appreciated.

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

@akibnafis

I have a x.rule file, I want use this rule file to generate post request to openhab. Using the post request I want create automation rules.
Can I do that? Is there any guidance for that?

Given this is your goal I strongly recommend dropping Rules DSL and use any of the other rules languages which provide access to the OH API to create, modify, and enable/disable rules from other rules. There are helper libraries that make it easier than building up a JSON string in a programming language that doesn’t natively support JSON (i.e. Rules DSL), dealing with authentication to the REST API, and posting that JSON using REST.