Enabling or Disabling the Camera on Android Devices

Description Enable or disable the camera on Android devices.

Resource Path /camera

URL /mdm-android-agent/operation/camera

HTTP Method POST

Request/Response Format application/json

cURL command

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer <EMM_API_TOKEN>" -d @'<JSON_PAYLOAD>' -k -v https://<EMM_HOST>:<EMM_HTTPS_PORT>/mdm-android-agent/operation/camera

For more information on how to generate the EMM API token, see Generating the OAuth 2.0 Access Token.
Define the path to the JSON file, which lists the devices that this operation is applied on and the actual operation that needs to be carried out, as the <JSON_PAYLOAD> value. For more information, see the Sample JSON Definition.
By default, <EMM_HOST> is localhost. However, if you are using a public IP, the respective IP address or domain needs to be specified.
By default, <EMM_HTTPS_PORT> has been set to 9443. However, if the port offset has been incremented by n, the default port value needs to be incremented by n.

Example:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer e56974e8bf5df15748f89c6c5da9835d" -d @'operation.json' -k -v https://localhost:9443/mdm-android-agent/operation/camera

Sample output

> POST /mdm-android-agent/operation/camera HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.24.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin12.0) libcurl/7.24.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8| zlib/1.2.5
> Host: localhost:9443
> Accept: */*
> Content-Type: application/json
> Authorization: Bearer e56974e8bf5df15748f89c6c5da9835d
> Content-Length: 84
< HTTP/1.1 201 Created
< Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 10:08:48 GMT
< Content-Length: 0
< Server: WSO2 Carbon Server

Sample JSON Definition

{
  "operation": {
    "enabled": false
  },
  "deviceIDs": [
    "d8:50:e6:2f:6a:8b",
    "a5:60:e6:2g:6a:5b"
  ]
}

Property Value	Description	Data Type
operation	This specifies the operation that is to be applied on the Android device.	-
`enabled`	Disable the camera on the device by assigning `true` as the value or enable the camera on the device to function by defining `false` as the value.	Boolean
`deviceIDS`	ID of the Android device. Multiple device IDs can be added by using comma separated values. For more information on retrieving the device ID, see Retrieving the ID of an Android device.	String