Deployment shiny application under same url with connect api with curl

tomasj7 · September 18, 2020, 1:47pm

Hi,

right now, I am deploying the shiny apps to the Rstudio Connect with help of curl and connect API. How can I ensure that, when I am redeploying Shiny application, it will be deployed under the same URL? I am using approximately the same code from this repo : https://github.com/rstudio/connect-api-deploy-shiny/blob/master/deploy/create-upload-deploy.sh. Thank you in advance for your help.

Regards,
Tomas

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cole · February 10, 2021, 3:23pm

cole · February 10, 2021, 3:26pm

Hey @tomasj7 ! So sorry for the delay responding to you here!

There are definitely ways to ensure that you deploy the application to the same "endpoint" over and over again (thereby meaning all app configuration, ACLs, vanity URLs, logs, etc. persist between deployments).

The key that I think will get you unblocked is the "NAME" field, which in this example script is randomized (thereby meaning a new deployment each time):

github.com

rstudio/connect-api-deploy-shiny/blob/b15a59584b06ab5a8068bd9622cd1268895f50e8/deploy/create-upload-deploy.sh#L65-L67


letters=(a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z)
num_letters=${#letters[*]}
NAME=$(for((i=1;i<=13;i++)); do printf '%s' "${letters[$((RANDOM%num_letters))]}"; done)

By changing that NAME variable to something deterministic, you should be good to go!!

Documentation on the topic just landed in our latest release here: https://docs.rstudio.com/connect/api/#post-/v1/experimental/content

name*: string A simple, URL-friendly identifier. Allows alpha-numeric characters, hyphens ( "-" ), and underscores ( "_" ).