11.12. Start Application

Start an application that is not running.

{
  "event": "start"
}

$ curl -X POST https://openshift.redhat.com/broker/rest/application/534253991015616165707776/events --user user@example.com:password --data-urlencode event=start

The API returns the application resource. Unnecessary information and related resource links returned by the API have been removed for brevity. See Chapter 11, Applications for more information on all application parameters.

{
  "api_version": 1.6,
  "data": {
    "aliases": [

    ],
    "app_url": "http://myapp-mydomain.rhcloud.com/",
    "build_job_url": null,
    "building_app": null,
    "building_with": null,
    "creation_time": "2013-08-21T01:58:41Z",
    "domain_id": "mydomain",
    "embedded": {
      "haproxy-1.4": {
      }
    },
    "framework": "ruby-2.0",
    "gear_count": 1,
    "gear_profile": "small",
    "git_url": "ssh://534253991015616165707776@myapp-mydomain.rhcloud.com/~/git/myapp.git/",
    "health_check_path": "health",
    "id": "534253991015616165707776",
    "initial_git_url": null,
    "members": [
      {
        "explicit_role": null,
        "from": [
          {
            "type": "domain",
            "role": "admin"
          }
        ],
        "id": "5213a826e499b22f15000001",
        "name": "user@example.com",
        "owner": true,
        "role": "admin",
        "type": "user"
      }
    ],
    "name": "myapp",
    "scalable": true,
    "ssh_url": "ssh://534253991015616165707776@myapp-mydomain.rhcloud.com"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "exit_code": 0,
      "field": null,
      "severity": "info",
      "text": "Application myapp has started"
    },
    {
      "exit_code": 0,
      "field": null,
      "severity": "warning",
      "text": "HAProxy instance is started\n"
    }
  ],
  "status": "ok",
  "supported_api_versions": [
    1.0,
    1.1,
    1.2,
    1.3,
    1.4,
    1.5,
    1.6
  ],
  "type": "application",
  "version": "1.6"
}