Adding a Screen Lock on Android Devices via the REST API

Description Add a screen lock on Android devices.

Resource Path /lock

URL /mdm-android-agent/operation/lock

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/lock

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, as the <JSON_PAYLOAD> value.
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 f409r4c55924rt4af9a44tts15y9d6cd56h1047d" -d @'test.json' -k -v https://localhost:9443/mdm-android-agent/operation/lock

Sample output

> POST /mdm-android-agent/operation/lock HTTP/1.1
> Host: localhost:9443
> User-Agent: curl/7.43.0
> Accept: */*
> Content-Type: application/json
> Authorization: Bearer f409r4c55924rt4af9a44tts15y9d6cd56h1047d
> Content-Length: 21
< HTTP/1.1 201 Created
< Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 08:18:20 GMT
< Content-Length: 0
< Server: WSO2 Carbon Server

Sample JSON Output
Definition

[
  "d8:50:e6:2f:6a:8b",
  "a5:60:e6:2g:6a:5b"
]

Property Value	Description	Type
device id	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