The REST-API doesn't export any information about the resource the definition is applied on. This is a showstopper because when importing in the target server it is needed to get the resource somehow (which means by name, IDs being obviously different). So is needed that the call "GET /alert/definition/{id}" to return also - resource name - resource type name / plugin - maybe resource id (this is not needed for import but somebody may use it for some other purpose)
Would you be able to provide a patch?
Actually that information was supposed to be present - not in the payload, but in the links, so you can follow that link to get all the information. Unfortunately the links were missing. I've added them in master 5ecac79512693 $ curl -u rhqadmin:rhqadmin -i http://localhost:7080/rest/alert/definition/10021.json HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1 Pragma: No-cache Cache-Control: no-cache Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 CET ETag: 3b020d Content-Type: application/json Transfer-Encoding: chunked Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 15:29:01 GMT {"id":10021, "name":"test","enabled":true,"priority":"MEDIUM", "recoveryId":0,"conditionMode":"ANY","conditions":[{"category":"AVAILABILITY","id":10041,"threshold":null,"option":null,"triggerId":null,"comparator":null,"measurementDefinition":0,"name":"AVAIL_GOES_DOWN"}], "notifications":[], "dampeningCategory":"NONE","dampeningCount":0,"dampeningPeriod":0, "dampeningUnit":null, "links":[{"coregui":{"href":"http://localhost:7080/coregui/#Resource/10001/Alerts/Definitions/10021"}}, {"resource":{"href":"http://localhost:7080/rest/resource/10001"}}]}
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