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Application inputs

Use the APIs in this category to add questions and their responses. These questions are displayed on the Resiliency Platform console.

Description: Use this interface to add questions to complete the discovery of an application instance.

These questions are displayed on the Resiliency Platform console if the application instance is partially discovered and user inputs are required to complete the discovery.

The following table lists the questions that you can add.

Is mandatory: No

Input parameter: Application instance object, question data

Return value: NA

Example:

my $qid1 = {	
		'QID' => 1,
		'QDescription' => 'Specify the administrator user name to 
				start the above instance.',
				'Mandatory' => 'yes',
		'QText' => 'Administrator user name for this instance',
		'Encrypted' => 'no'
};
$appInstObj->add_question($qid1);

Description: This interface returns the response to the questions which you have defined using the add_question API. You can call this API when you need responses to the questions. The responses assist in completing the application discovery.

Is mandatory: No

Input parameter: String: Question ID

Return value: Response to the question ID if successful, else undefined.

Example:

$appInstObj->get_qresponse($qid);

Where $qid is the question ID.

Description: Use this interface to define an error code and error message in response to any error that occurs for a particular question ID.

Is mandatory: No

Input parameter: String: Error code, error message, question ID

Return value: 0 with question data set with an error code and error message, else any positive number.

Example:

$appInstObj->set_qresponse($error_code, $error_string, $qid);