API Firewall set to enabled or disabled

[RobLatour]

Following the documentation here:
https://docs.opnsense.org/development/api/plugins/firewall.html

via the api I can retrieve the enabled status of a firewall rule, and I can toggle it from enabled to disabled (or the other way), and I can apply the change.

However, I would rather simply either a) enable it, or in other cases b) disabled it, without needing to first retrieve the current status.  Afterwards I can apply the change.

The documentation above, does reference a setRule feature of the API, but I  can't find it otherwise documented, and the parms for it don't seem to include an way to indicate if the rule should be enabled or disabled.

Is there a way to enable or disable a rule with a direct api post (i.e. not toggle it, rather just either enable or disable it directly)?

[franco]

toggleRule has a second argument, which defaults to "null", but you can also use "true" or "false" to set it to the respective state directlyl.


Cheers,
Franco

[RobLatour]

Thank you Franco, that is great news.

I had actually tried a combination of things before posting this but nothing seemed to work.

I am using an encoded url for the post, and while

   https://n.n.n.n/api/firewall/filter/toggleRule/uuid

works great,

I couldn't get any of the following to work:

   https://n.n.n.n/api/firewall/filter/toggleRule/uuid,enabled="true"
   https://n.n.n.n/api/firewall/filter/toggleRule/uuid,enabled="True"
   https://n.n.n.n/api/firewall/filter/toggleRule/uuid,enabled=true
   https://n.n.n.n/api/firewall/filter/toggleRule/uuid,$enabled="true"
   https://n.n.n.n/api/firewall/filter/toggleRule/uuid,$enabled=true
   https://n.n.n.n/api/firewall/filter/toggleRule/uuid,"True"
   https://n.n.n.n/api/firewall/filter/toggleRule/uuid,"true"
   https://n.n.n.n/api/firewall/filter/toggleRule/uuid,true
   https://n.n.n.n/api/firewall/filter/toggleRule/uuid,enabled=1
   https://n.n.n.n/api/firewall/filter/toggleRule/uuid,1

Could you please let me know what is the required syntax looks like?

Thanks,

Rob

[Fright]

try
https://n.n.n.n/api/firewall/filter/toggleRule/uuid/1

[RobLatour]

Perfect.

Thank you very much for your help!

[franco]

Does /false or /true not work? Maybe it's casting to string. In JSON body it's probably type-safe.


Cheers,
Franco

[Fright]

@franco

Does /false or /true not work?

not for me ({"result":"failed","changed":false})
toggleBase() expects string "1" and "0" only. and i dont see any casting in body parsing?
I really thought its by design

[franco]

It's a design choice it seems in the URL parsing, but it's not perfect


Cheers,
Franco