Setting up CloudSignal webhooks

Why signals

Getting status signals back to your app is an important step, it allow you to:

• keep track of the order production state
• provide your end user with tracking information
• get notified if there is an issue with the order causing a delay
• get notified if the order can not be produced and gets cancelled

Subscribing to signals via CloudApps API

Overview

1. Create an endpoint that support CloudSignal Webhooks 2.0
2. Authendicate with OAuth2 - App Authentication with OAuth2
3. Call the CloudApps API to sebscribe/unsubscribe

Create subscription

To create a new CloudSignal subscription call this endpoint with the url and CloudApps will create a new CloudSignal Webhooks configuration. This can also be found in the Cloudprinter admin dashboard.

Endpoint: https://api.cloudprinter.com/cloudapps/1.0/cloudsignal/webhooks Method: POST

Post JSON parameters:

Key	Value
url	The Cloudsignal Webhook 2.0 compatible endpoint to call

Return JSON valus:

Key	Value
id	Reference id to the CloudSignal Webhook configuration created in Cloudprinter.com, you need this reference id when you want to unsubscribe.

Delete subscription

The CloudSignal subscription can at anytime be unsibscribed. Call this endpoint with the CloudSignal webhook configuration id you got when creating it. Use a HTTP DELETE method and add the id to the query string. This can also be found in the Cloudprinter admin dashboard.

Endpoint: https://api.cloudprinter.com/cloudapps/1.0/cloudsignal/webhooks/<id> Method: DELETE

Query string parameters:

Key	Value
id	Reference id to the CloudSignal Webhook interface created in Cloudprinter.com. This was given when the subscription was created.