[arin-tech-discuss] PHP class to reassign subnets via rest

[Andy Newton]

Thomas,

Thanks for the PHP class. We are discussing internally if there is some place we can accumulate these individual contributions. I'll let you know what we find.

I can see how a RESTful Whois system in the beta site would be useful, and we'll see what we can do. However, in the longterm I think we should look at creating the necessary REST methods in registration system to accommodate the needs for understanding which networks can be reassigned.

Andy Newton,
Chief Engineer
ARIN

On Nov 18, 2011, at 2:26 PM, Thomas St.Pierre wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I've written a PHP class that sends a simple reassign to Arin. I'm releasing it in the hopes others find it useful and that it saves them time :) It first checks to see if there's an existing reassign for the subnet, and if there is it updates the customer object. Otherwise it creates a new Customer, then reassigns the subnet to them. Note there are some variables you need to set to get it working (your API-key, etc)
> 
> I included an example script that uses the reassign class. This is the script I used. It's not documented but it's not that complicated either. We had an existing script that pulled customer information out of our database and created a separate file for each reassign using the email template format. The example script parses the information from these files, scrubs any weird characters from the data (Arin really don't like accents etc! ) and then does the reassign.
> 
> Disclaimer: I'm not a programmer/developer by trade. I did my best to document the code I wrote, but the code is probably not the cleanest/most portable out there. I got it to the point that it was working for what I needed, and stopped there. Also, appologies if I got the licensing/copyright stuff wrong, I've never really released code before, so this is all new to me. :)
> 
> A note to Arin: It would be nice if there was a restful whois interface for the beta site. I looked but couldn't see one. :)
> 
> Here's the file: http://samoht.ca/reassign.class.tar.gz
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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> 
> Thomas St.Pierre
> Network Administrator
> iWeb Technologies
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