API Lifecycle

The Cisco DNA Center platform deploys and supports APIs 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. API design is not final:

    • A future versions of the API may implement (incompatible) changes to request/response payload, request path or parameters.
    • A future version of the API may not provide this functionality at all.

  • Beta - Released in Beta for feedback from early adopters and supported in future releases. API design is not final:

    • A future versions of the API may implement changes to request/response payload, request path or parameters.
    • A future version of the API may not provide this functionality at all.

  • Supported - Fully supported in GA releases of the product. Interface is final. Incompatible changes must be released under a new API version number.

  • Deprecated - Still supported, but a future version of the API or product will not support this request. A Sunset header in the response communicates the date on which support for a deprecated API ends. Typically, the Sunset header first appears at least one year before support for the API ends. At some point after the Sunset date, the API will cease to function.

    Sunset header example: Sunset: Sat, 31 Dec 2018 23:59:59 GMT

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

  • Retired - No longer available or supported