API Lifecycle

The Cisco Catalyst 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 version 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 version 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 general availability (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.

• 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.