Create a New Publishing Point
The Create a New Publishing Point operation creates a new publishing point on the current Web site. If the specified path doesn’t exist it will be created as part of the publishing point creation.
Restrictions
The publishing point must not exist prior to the operation.
Publishing point state after successful operation
This operation does not change the publishing point state.
Request
The Create a New Publishing Point request may be specified as follows:
Method |
URI |
|---|---|
POST |
http(s)://<hostname>/services/smoothstreaming/publishingpoints.isml/settings |
URI Parameters
The following table lists URL template segments and parameters.
Parameter |
Description |
Example |
|---|---|---|
hostname |
The host name. |
Contoso.com |
Request Headers
The following table describes required and optional request headers.
Request Header |
Description |
Format |
|---|---|---|
Slug |
Required. Specifies the path for the file to be created. For more information about the Slug header, see the Slug header section in the IETF’s The Atom Syndication Format. |
Slug: /<path>/<filename.isml> |
Request Body
The following example shows the format of the request body. For information of element values and attribute values, see SmoothStreaming Schema Reference.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<id>unique-ID</id>
<title>title</title>
<updated>time-stamp</updated>
<content type="application/xml">
<SmoothStreaming xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/iis/media/2011/03/streaming/management">
<Settings>
<Title>title</Title>
<SourceType>Push|Pull</SourceType>
<AutoStart>true|false</AutoStart>
<AutoRestartOnEncoderReconnect>true|false</AutoRestartOnEncoderReconnect>
<LookAheadChunks>look-ahead-chunks</LookAheadChunks>
<Archive enabled="true|false">
<Path useEventIdOnPath="true|false" />
</Archive>
<ClientConnections enabled="true|false">
<ClientManifestVersion>client-manifest-version</ClientManifestVersion>
</ClientConnections>
<ServerConnections enabled="true|false">
<SendEndOfStreamOnStop>true|false</SendEndOfStreamOnStop>
</ServerConnections>
</Settings>
</SmoothStreaming>
</content>
</entry>
The following example shows a request body.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<id>https://contoso.com/media/bunny.isml/settings</id>
<title>Bunny</title>
<updated>2011-05-31T21:32:26Z</updated>
<content type="application/xml">
<SmoothStreaming xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/iis/media/2011/03/streaming/management">
<Settings>
<Title>Bunny</Title>
<SourceType>Push</SourceType>
<AutoStart>false</AutoStart>
<AutoRestartOnEncoderReconnect>false</AutoRestartOnEncoderReconnect>
<LookAheadChunks>2</LookAheadChunks>
<Archive enabled="true">
<Path useEventIdOnPath="false" />
</Archive>
<ClientConnections enabled="true">
<ClientManifestVersion>2.0</ClientManifestVersion>
</ClientConnections>
<ServerConnections enabled="true">
<SendEndOfStreamOnStop>true</SendEndOfStreamOnStop>
</ServerConnections>
</Settings>
</SmoothStreaming>
</content>
</entry>
Response
The response includes an HTTP status code and a response body.
Status Code
A successful operation returns status code 201 (Created). For information about error status codes, see Service Management Status and Error Codes.
Response Body
The response body is the same as the request body unless an invalid input element value or attribute value is changed by the service. The format of the response body is the publishing point settings after the operation is completed. The following example shows the format of a response body.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<id>unique-ID</id>
<title>title</title>
<updated>time-stamp</updated>
<link href="http(s)://host-name/.isml-file-path/settings" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" title="Settings" />
<link href="http(s)://host-name/.isml-file-path/state" rel="related" type="application/atom+xml" title="State" />
<content type="application/xml">
<SmoothStreaming xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/iis/media/2011/03/streaming/management">
<Settings>
<Title>title</Title>
<SourceType>Push|Pull</SourceType>
<AutoStart>true|false</AutoStart>
<AutoRestartOnEncoderReconnect>true|false</AutoRestartOnEncoderReconnect>
<LookAheadChunks>look-ahead-chunks</LookAheadChunks>
<Archive enabled="true|false">
<Path useEventIdOnPath="true|false" />
</Archive>
<ClientConnections enabled="true|false">
<ClientManifestVersion>client-manifest-version</ClientManifestVersion>
</ClientConnections>
<ServerConnections enabled="true|false">
<SendEndOfStreamOnStop>true|false</SendEndOfStreamOnStop>
</ServerConnections>
</Settings>
</SmoothStreaming>
</content>
</entry>
The following example shows a response body.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<id>https://contoso.com/media/bunny.isml/settings</id>
<title>Bunny</title>
<updated>2011-05-31T21:32:26Z</updated>
<link href="https://contoso.com/media/bunny.isml/settings" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" title="Settings" />
<link href="https://contoso.com/media/bunny.isml/state" rel="related" type="application/atom+xml" title="State" />
<content type="application/xml">
<SmoothStreaming xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/iis/media/2011/03/streaming/management">
<Settings>
<Title>Bunny</Title>
<SourceType>Push</SourceType>
<AutoStart>false</AutoStart>
<AutoRestartOnEncoderReconnect>false</AutoRestartOnEncoderReconnect>
<LookAheadChunks>2</LookAheadChunks>
<Archive enabled="true">
<Path useEventIdOnPath="false" />
</Archive>
<ClientConnections enabled="true">
<ClientManifestVersion>2.0</ClientManifestVersion>
</ClientConnections>
<ServerConnections enabled="true">
<SendEndOfStreamOnStop>true</SendEndOfStreamOnStop>
</ServerConnections>
</Settings>
</SmoothStreaming>
</content>
</entry>
Authorization
The user must have write access to the specified folder.
Remarks
None.