How to use Cumulocity Custom SmartREST 2.0 Templates
Custom SmartRest Templates can be used to extend the functionality of a device to support more operations than what the static SmartREST templates offer.
thin-edge.io supports subscription to custom templates as documented here.
For every template that the device uses, it must publish all data to s/uc/<template-name> topic and subscribe to s/dc/<template-name> to receive data from the cloud, based on that template.
When these templates are configured with thin-edge.io, subscriptions to all these relevant topics on Cumulocity cloud will be done by thin-edge.io internally.
Local processes on the device can access these templates on the local MQTT broker by simply publishing to c8y/s/uc/<template-name> and subscribing to c8y/s/dc/<template-name> topics (note the c8y/ prefix in topics).
A template named $TEMPLATE_NAME requires the following subscriptions to be added when connecting to Cumulocity:
s/dc/$TEMPLATE_NAME
s/uc/$TEMPLATE_NAME
This is not done automatically and the custom templates have to be declared using the tedge command.
Checking existing templates​
tedge config get c8y.smartrest.templates
Add new template to thin-edge configuration​
To add new template to thin-edge.io the tedge config cli tool can be used as following:
sudo tedge config set c8y.smartrest.templates template-1,template-2
To add/append a new template to a device that's already configured with some, all the existing templates should also be declared along with the new one in the tedge config set command.
For example, if template-1 is already configured on the device, as following:
tedge config get c8y.smartrest.templates
["template-1"]
To add new template to the set it is required to include current template, so the command would look like this:
tedge config set c8y.smartrest.templates template-1,template-2
Now when we get the configuration the both templates will be there:
tedge config get c8y.smartrest.templates
["template-1", "template-2"]
Removing templates from configuration​
To remove all the templates, the unset subcommand can used as follows:
sudo tedge config unset c8y.smartrest.templates
To remove one of existing templates you can overwrite the existing c8y.smartrest.templates with the new set which doesn't contain the unwanted template.
tedge config get c8y.smartrest.templates
["template-1", "template-2"]
sudo tedge config set c8y.smartrest.templates template-1
You can verify that the template has changed by reading the value again.
tedge config get c8y.smartrest.templates
["template-1"]