Application Packages

Application packages specify state machines running both on the end device and the Application Server, as well as signalling messages exchanged between the end device’s application layer and the Application Server.

Listing the Available Packages

The application packages available for a given device dev1 of application app1 can be obtained as follows:

$ ttn-lw-cli applications packages list app1 dev1

This gives the result in the JSON format:

{
  "packages": [
    {
      "name": "test-package",
      "default_f_port": 20
    }
  ]
}

Associations and Default Associations

The link between an application or a device and an application package is achieved through associations.

Associations link a device and a FPort to a specific application package. Since you may want to link all of the devices of an application without manually creating an association for each one of them, you may consider a default association, which links the application and a FPort to a specific application package.

All of the commands for managing associations and default associations are symmetric, and may be switched one with another. For the rest of this reference we will consider default associations.

Creating and Updating an Association

In order to associate a given application package to a FPort of an application, you can use the default-associations set command:

$ ttn-lw-cli applications packages default-associations set app1 25 --package-name test-package

This will associate FPort 25 of application app1 with the application package test-package, as shown by the command output:

{
  "ids": {
    "application_ids": {
      "application_id": "app1"
    },
    "f_port": 25
  },
  "created_at": "2019-12-18T21:28:12.775879582Z",
  "updated_at": "2019-12-18T21:29:08.445380588Z",
  "package_name": "test-package"
}

Some application packages are stateful, and as such their state can be updated using the data-* parameters:

# Create a JSON formatted file containing package data
$ echo '{ "api_key": "AQEA8+q0v..." }' > package-data.json
# Update the association with the new package data
$ ttn-lw-cli applications packages default-associations set app1 25 --data-local-file package-data.json

This will update the association to use the given api_key:

{
  "ids": {
    "application_ids": {
      "application_id": "app1"
    },
    "f_port": 25
  },
  "created_at": "2019-12-18T21:28:12.775879582Z",
  "updated_at": "2019-12-18T21:37:16.470742803Z",
  "package_name": "test-package",
  "data": {
      "api_key": "AQEA8+q0v..."
    }
}

Listing the Associations

The package associations of a given device can be listed using the default-associations list command:

$ ttn-lw-cli applications packages default-associations list app1

{
  "associations": [
    {
      "ids": {
        "application_ids": {
          "application_id": "app1"
        },
        "f_port": 25
      },
      "created_at": "2019-12-18T21:28:12.775879582Z",
      "updated_at": "2019-12-18T21:29:08.445380588Z",
      "package_name": "test-package"
    }
  ]
}

Retrieving an Association

The associations can be retrieved using the default-associations get command:

$ ttn-lw-cli applications packages default-associations get app1 25 --data

{
  "ids": {
    "application_ids": {
      "application_id": "app1"
    },
    "f_port": 25
  },
  "created_at": "2019-12-18T21:28:12.775879582Z",
  "updated_at": "2019-12-18T21:37:16.470742803Z",
  "package_name": "test-package",
  "data": {
    "api_key": "AQEA8+q0v..."
  }
}

Deleting an Association

The associations can be deleted using the default-associations delete command:

$ ttn-lw-cli applications packages associations delete app1 25