Is there any posibility to register a flow via http?

[rizkyekoputra]

If yes, any docs about this?

thanks

[joshmeek]

Hi @rizkyekoputra what exactly do you mean by register it over http? Currently registration happens over the GraphQL API by hitting the mutations create_flow_from_compressed_string or create_flow and those can be sent directly through a POST request.

[rizkyekoputra]

yes, thats what I mean @joshmeek. Any docs about how to use it? whats parameter should I fill? cause I am not to familiar using graphql, and there is lack of tutorial for registering flow directly via call the API

[joshmeek]

I see, yeah we can definitely expand the documentation around this. There hasn't really been any requests for registering a flow directly over http as most users use the Client's .register function. For some current information on using the GraphQL API check out the docs here. Here's a part on registration although it might not be enough information even though I believe only the serialized flow and project ID are required. The serialized_flow it accepts is formed by passing in the output from flow.serialize()

[rizkyekoputra]

oh no, still need calling flow.serialize()... I need to run this all on Golang code, currently my backend runs in Golang. You have any suggestion what should I build if I register flow from Golang? Should I create one more service that runs on python than Golang call that python service for all the prefect stuff?

[joshmeek]

Yeah you're going to need to get a serialized flow in order to register it with the backend API. Both the create_flow_from_compressed_string and create_flow require a serialized flow in some form. The serialized flow is simply a JSON representation of the flow metadata so you would probably need some Python service that is able to call .serialize on the Python flow objects.

[rizkyekoputra]

ok, thanks for the explanations @joshmeek