API Operations Lifecycle

The Cisco Catalyst Center platform deploys and supports API operations according to Cisco Secure Development Lifecycle (CSDL) best practices.

  • Early Field Trial (EFT): Unsupported; experimental. Released for feedback from early adopters. Functionality is not guaranteed. The API operation design is not final:

    • A future version of the API operation may implement (incompatible) changes to request/response payload, request path, or parameters.
    • A future version of the API operation may not provide this functionality at all.
  • Beta: Released in Beta for feedback from early adopters and supported in future releases. The API operation design is not final:

    • A future version of the API operation may implement changes to request/response payload, request path, or parameters.
    • A future version of the API operation may not provide this functionality at all.
  • Supported: Fully supported in general availability (GA) releases of the product. Interface is final. Incompatible changes must be released under a new API operation version number.

  • Deprecated: Still supported, but a future version of the API or product will not support this API operation request.

  • Sunset header: Hints the caller that a particular API operation URI will be deprecated in the future. For more information, see Sunset header.

  • Retired: No longer available or supported.