Google Search Appliance Administrative API Developers Guide: Java - Manual (Page 5)

Google Search Appliance: Administrative API Developer’s Guide: Java 5
Administrative API
Developer’s Guide: Java
Introduction
This guide provides Java programming information about how to use the Google Data API to create,
retrieve, update, and delete information for one or more Google Search Appliance devices.
Use the information in this guide to create or learn about coding Java applications that
programmatically set the administrative functions for the Admin Console of a search appliance.
The audience for this guide is Java programmers who want to programmatically configure a Google
Search Appliance. Before using the Google Search Appliance Administrative API, read “Getting Started”
on page 5 to download and configure required software.
Note: This guide uses data source feed to indicate the search appliance’s Feeds API (described in the
Feeds Protocol Developer’s Guide).
The organization of this guide corresponds to the navigation features of the Google Search Appliance:
• “Content Sources” on page 7
• “Index” on page 21
• “Search” on page 30
• “Reports” on page 42
• “GSA Unification” on page 47
• “Administration” on page 50
Getting Started
The google-enterprise-gdata-api open source site ( https://code.google.com/p/google-enterprise-gdata-
api ) provides ZIP files that contain the Java client library, source code and some sample applications for
your reference. The information in this section helps you understand how to write your own
applications based on the client library and how to run the provided open source sample applications.
You can also use the sample applications as models for your own development.
Before starting, you need the following software:
• JDK version 6, available from Java.com downloads ( http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp ).