Creating devices
This page explains how to create devices.
Before you begin
Perform the following tasks before proceeding with the information on this page:
Read the Devices API overview.
Creating a device
The following examples shows you how to create a device.
REST
To create a device, call
devices.create()
with the name of the customer
(organization) and a
Device object.
Python HTTP
The following example shows a helper function to create a device using the Python HTTP library:
"""Example script to use the create method of the Devices API."""
import json
import pprint
from six.moves import urllib
import google.auth.transport.requests
from google.oauth2 import service_account
SCOPES = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-identity.devices']
BASE_URL = 'https://cloudidentity.googleapis.com/v1/'
# Change this to the location of the service account key
SA_FILE = ''
# Enter the administrator to call as here.
ADMIN_EMAIL = ''
if not SA_FILE:
print('Please specify the location of the service account key file')
if not ADMIN_EMAIL:
print('Please specify the email of the administrator to call as')
if not SA_FILE or not ADMIN_EMAIL:
exit(-1)
def create_delegated_credentials(user_email):
credentials = service_account.Credentials.from_service_account_file(
SA_FILE,
scopes=['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-identity.devices'])
delegated_credentials = credentials.with_subject(user_email)
return delegated_credentials
######################################################################
# AUTHENTICATE the service account and retrieve an oauth2 access token
request = google.auth.transport.requests.Request()
dc = create_delegated_credentials(ADMIN_EMAIL)
dc.refresh(request)
print('Access token: ' + dc.token + '\n')
###############################
# Create the Device
header = {
'authorization': 'Bearer ' + dc.token,
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
}
body = {
'serialNumber': 'someSerial', # the serial number of your device.
# see values in
# https://cloud.google.com/identity/docs/reference/rest/v1/devices#DeviceType
'deviceType': 'LINUX'
}
serialized_body = json.dumps(body, separators=(',', ':'))
request_url = BASE_URL + 'devices'
print('Request URL: ' + request_url)
print('Request body: ' + serialized_body)
serialized_body = json.dumps(body, separators=(',', ':'))
request = urllib.request.Request(request_url, serialized_body, headers=header)
request.get_method = lambda: 'POST'
try:
contents = urllib.request.urlopen(request)
except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
if e.code == 409:
print('The request was invalid. Perhaps the device is already present?')
else:
print('Unknown error occurred: {}', e.code)
exit(-1)
create_response = json.loads(contents.read())
inner_response = create_response['response']
pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=4)
pp.pprint(inner_response)
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