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Web API for Device Databases

By Rideout on Thu, 08/30/2018 - 20:34

Hello,

I was wondering if there might be a way to externally generate and manage device databases via a web API without having to directly use the target manager. Ultimately we would like to create a custom manager for our CMS that would allow for users to create and update device databases along with various customization options for target augmentations. However I wasn't finding any solutions for creating a device dataset outside of the Vuforia web based target manager UI.

If there is no API available or one that is likely to be added, is there capability of exporting user targets that you can generate at runtime within the app as a device database? An older forum post I came across suggested this was not possible as user targets are stored in memory and not accessible in such a way.

Cheers

I'll second this - we'd love

I'll second this - we'd love to be able to do this type of thing with the API for an upcoming project.

Hello,

API access to the Target Manager for this use case is a known request within our product team. I'll resurface the request to them based on this thread.

Thanks,

Vuforia Engine Support

Hello.

is there any update to this topic?

Thanks

Hey there,

Depending on your use-case you could check out the Cloud Targets Web API or Instant Image Targets. The latter would allow you to generate a target during runtime which you could pull from your CMS.