5.18. Examining Builds Using the Toaster API

Toaster is an Application Programming Interface (API) to the OpenEmbedded build system, which uses BitBake. The interface is a Representational State Transfer (REST) API that queries for and returns build information using GET and JSON.

Through the API you can do the following:

In summary, the search operation retrieves a set of objects from a data store used to collect build information. The result contains all the data for the objects being returned. You can order the results of the search by key and the search parameters are consistent for all object types.

For more information on installing and running Toaster, see the "Installation and Running" section of the "Toaster" wiki page. For complete information on the API and its search operation URI, parameters, and responses, see the REST API Contracts Wiki page.