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Virtual_Guest has a built in for item prices using getUpgradeItemPrices. This is a shortcut for iterating through the packages by hand and will only return valid upgrade items for the VSI. See https://gist.github.com/sl-will/6868575de6dc7263968f for more information on working with orders and products and https://gist.github.com/sl-will/e3274c68e0e9f5eafcd1 for general REST usage.

curl -s -H 'Accept: application/json' https://$APIUSER:$APIKEY@api.softlayer.com/rest/v3/SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest/11111/getUpgradeItemPrices?objectMask=categories.categoryCode;currentPriceFlag;hourlyRecurringFee;id;recurringFee

For RAM, these have the categoryCode of "ram" and item.keyName and item.description describe the amount. 2GB, for example, would be item 1645:

    {
        "categories": [
            {
                "categoryCode": "ram"

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#!/usr/bin/perl

# Pulling credentials from ENV, or set as hard values
$apiUser = $ENV{APIUSER};
$apiKey = $ENV{APIKEY};
$soapUrl= $ENV{APISOAPURL};

# Use the path to the SoftLayer API and include it
use lib $ENV{APIPERLINCLUDE};
use SoftLayer::API::SOAP;

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# Create an NS record using an existing ID for Dns_Domain
# http://sldn.softlayer.com/reference/services/SoftLayer_Dns_Domain/createNsRecord

require 'softlayer_api'

username = 'your-username'
api_key = 'yourlongapikey'

dns_domain = SoftLayer::Service.new('SoftLayer_Dns_Domain', :username => username, :api_key => api_key)

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# Note: tab = 2 spaces

import SoftLayer
from pprint import pprint as pp

# Set apikey and apiuser per your API credentials
apiuser='Your API User'
apikey='Your API Key'

# Initiate the client and authenticate

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# This code will append a firewall to the end of the rules chain for a standard (per server) firewall.

username = 'your username'
apikey = 'your apikey'


# The firewall of the ID, can be found with an object mask of firewallServiceComponent.id on SoftLayer_Hardware or SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest data type
# For example, SoftLayer_Account::getVirtualGuests with a mask of id and firewallServiceComponent for a full list

firewall_id = 123456

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# The below commands will get the basic information used in ordering products
# All calls are assumed with an env variable of $APIUSER and $APIKEY for the API username and key
# The following examples can be piped to Python for better formatting, for example:
# curl api.softlayer.com/args | python -m json.tool | less
# Related gist for integrating with scripting https://gist.github.com/sl-will/e3274c68e0e9f5eafcd1


# Get a list of all datacenter locations, optionally with the region adding "groups.name" to the object mask
# Returns array [ {"id":int, "longName":string} ]

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#!/bin/bash

# This script provides a basic command line shortcut for testing API calls using the SoftLayer RESTful API
# Note that using object masks uses semicolons which either must be escaped or the whole call wrapped in quotes
# Can pipe out to Python for better JSON formatting using: | python -m json.tool
# Requires curl. Usage (with "api" as script name):
# ./api SoftLayer_Class_Name/123456/editObject.json -X POST -d '{json object}'
# ./api "SoftLayer_Class_Name/getObjects.json?objectMask=myMask.description;myMask.id;id"

# Fill these two variables in

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username = 'your username'
api_key = 'your api key'

virtual_guest_id = 000000

# Get the monitoring agents for virtual_guest_id

virtual_guest = SoftLayer::Service.new('SoftLayer_Virtual_Guest', :username => username, :api_key => api_key)

# For the sake of simplicity, we are just using the first entry, otherwise we would iterate through it