arazzo: 1.0.1
info:
  title: ThingSpeak Provision Channel and Seed First Reading
  summary: Create a new channel, write an initial entry to it, then read that entry back.
  description: >-
    The canonical bootstrap flow for a new IoT device on ThingSpeak. It creates a
    fresh channel with named fields, captures the generated channel id and its
    write API key, writes a first reading into the channel using that write key,
    and finally reads the most recent entry back to confirm the data landed. Every
    step spells out its request inline so the flow can be read and executed without
    opening the underlying OpenAPI description.
  version: 1.0.0
sourceDescriptions:
- name: channelsApi
  url: ../openapi/thingspeak-channels-api-openapi.yml
  type: openapi
- name: updateApi
  url: ../openapi/thingspeak-update-api-openapi.yml
  type: openapi
- name: feedsApi
  url: ../openapi/thingspeak-feeds-api-openapi.yml
  type: openapi
workflows:
- workflowId: provision-channel-and-seed-reading
  summary: Create a channel, write its first reading, and read the entry back.
  description: >-
    Creates a channel, extracts the write API key from the channel response,
    writes a single entry with that key, and reads the last entry to verify.
  inputs:
    type: object
    required:
    - userApiKey
    - name
    - field1Value
    properties:
      userApiKey:
        type: string
        description: User API Key sent on the THINGSPEAKAPIKEY header to manage channels.
      name:
        type: string
        description: Display name for the new channel.
      description:
        type: string
        description: Human-readable description of what the channel measures.
      field1Label:
        type: string
        description: Label for field1 (e.g. "Temperature").
      field1Value:
        type: string
        description: First reading to write into field1.
  steps:
  - stepId: createChannel
    description: >-
      Create the channel with a name, description, and a labeled first field.
    operationId: createChannel
    parameters:
    - name: THINGSPEAKAPIKEY
      in: header
      value: $inputs.userApiKey
    requestBody:
      contentType: application/json
      payload:
        name: $inputs.name
        description: $inputs.description
        field1: $inputs.field1Label
    successCriteria:
    - condition: $statusCode == 200
    outputs:
      channelId: $response.body#/id
      writeApiKey: $response.body#/api_keys/0/api_key
  - stepId: writeReading
    description: >-
      Write the first reading into field1 using the channel write API key
      returned by the create step.
    operationId: updateChannelFeedGet
    parameters:
    - name: api_key
      in: query
      value: $steps.createChannel.outputs.writeApiKey
    - name: field1
      in: query
      value: $inputs.field1Value
    successCriteria:
    - condition: $statusCode == 200
    outputs:
      response: $response.body
  - stepId: readLastEntry
    description: >-
      Read the most recent entry on the channel to confirm the reading was stored.
    operationId: readLastEntry
    parameters:
    - name: channel_id
      in: path
      value: $steps.createChannel.outputs.channelId
    successCriteria:
    - condition: $statusCode == 200
    outputs:
      entryId: $response.body#/entry_id
      field1: $response.body#/field1
      createdAt: $response.body#/created_at
  outputs:
    channelId: $steps.createChannel.outputs.channelId
    writeApiKey: $steps.createChannel.outputs.writeApiKey
    lastEntryId: $steps.readLastEntry.outputs.entryId