Attaching build configuration to template via API [TeamCity]

Question

I'm trying to attach a build configuration to a template. We're running TeamCity 10.0.2, using PowerShell 4.0 to interact with it.

According to the TeamCity 10 API documentation, the attachment of builds to templates operation is possible:

Read, detach and attach a build configuration from/to a template: GET/DELETE/PUT http://teamcity:8111/app/rest/buildTypes//template (PUT accepts template locator with the "text/plain" Content-Type)

So I'm trying to attach the build12 build configuration to the template12 template, the code I'm doing this with is as follows

$webclient             = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$creds                 = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential("user1","pass1")
$webclient.Credentials = $creds
$webclient.headers.Add("Content-Type", "text/plain") 
$webclient.UploadString("http://teamcity:8111/httpAuth/app/rest/buildTypes/build12/template", "PUT", "TemplateId")

But I keep getting the following error back:

Exception calling "UploadString" with "3" argument(s): "The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request."

Has anyone been able to attach build configurations to templates through the API?

Answer 1

I see you using PowerShell, but you're dropping down the the C# WebClient class to do it. Don't do that :)

Invoke-RestMethod http://teamcity/httpAuth/app/rest/buildTypes/YourBuildId/template -Credential $credential -Method Put -Headers @{"Content-Type"="text/plain"} -Body Your_Template

This will attach the template Your_Template to your build called YourBuildId

If you need help with the -Credentials param or anything else, let me know.

I've actually got it to work using the above...