SoftLayer's Application Programming Interface (API) is the development interface that gives developers and system administrators direct interaction with SoftLayer's backend system. The functionality exposed by our API allows users to perform...
SoftLayer provides an XML-RPC interface in addition to SOAP and REST. The XML-RPC API is built to mimic the SOAP interface. We recommend using the XML-RPC API when your chosen language doesn...
Most of the data types modeled in the SoftLayer API contain relational properties that tie one data type to another. For instance, a SoftLayer_Account has links to its domains, support tickets, hardware, users, and much more. By default, calling...
SoftLayer provides a Perl-based API client that takes the heavy lifting out of making manual SOAP API calls. To use this API client, the following system requirements must be met:
SoftLayer provides a RESTful API in addition to RPC-style API services. Use the REST API in cases where your programming language may not have good SOAP or XML-RPC support but can perform simple HTTP protocol actions and can interpret XML or JSON...
SoftLayer provides a SOAP interface in addition to XML-RPC and REST. We recommend using the SOAP API, as it is the most comprehensive API that we currently offer.
Most of the data presented in the SoftLayer API is date-sensitive. Servers have provision dates, tickets have modify dates, and nearly everything has a creation date. To maintain compliancy and consistency standards for all of our users worldwide...
Prior to calling methods on some objects represented in the SoftLayer API, a unique identifier must be used during instantiation of the service. SoftLayer provides a way to instantiate your service objects by...
