19.1 What is Etere API

What is Etere API?

First of all, an Etere API is any software that makes itself available over TCP/IP so that other programs can request information from it; the interface is described in an XML-based language (WSDL), and the methods are accessed using XML messages (SOAP).

Etere API

Etere API is, as its name suggests, a web service developed to render some of the most important Etere functions (e.g. assets management, T-workflow control, etc.) available to mainly Non-Etere programs through the use of standardised messages; thus, Etere allows the Stations to communicate its software with Etere.

In essence, through Etere API, a client invokes the web service by sending an XML message and then waits for a corresponding XML response, which can be a data retrieval (e.g. video file listing) or a function execution (e.g. video file copy).

To provide its customers with a reliable and easy-to-use application, Etere employs cutting-edge technology for APIs, improving it into its distributed architecture to bring you quality service. This service is accurately illustrated in the following picture:

Etere API

Topics in this chapter:

. SOAP Interfacing;

. Installation and Configuration;

. Supported Operations;

. Performing Operations.