Export report and view status of report export with two new APIs

From this release, two new APIs have been added to the existing suite of Report Executor APIs to allow you to export saved reports and view the status of reports ready for exporting. The development of both APIs follow a request to retrieve report data in an asynchronous fashion and prevent possible time out issues due to idle sessions. Now when downloading report data, the status of the export is tracked and presented to the user.

Report Export API

/fnms/v1/orgs/{orgId}/reports/{id}/export: Creates a file containing dynamic report data for the saved report. This API is capable of asynchronously generating report data which can be downloaded as a zip file by using the Report Export Status API.

Report Export Status API

/fnms/v1/orgs/{orgId}/reports/export-status/{exportId}: Accepts the Export ID and returns the status of the report being generated for the export. Once a report export starts, the Report Export Status API uses Export ID for tracking the status of the report being generated for exporting.

In addition to the new APIs, general stability improvements have been made to other existing APIs to enhance user experience.

For API documentation, see IT Asset Management Data API.