The rest api already allows to find resources in inventory queue (see below)

It should be possible to take them into inventory via PUT call on their URI with a status changed to COMMITTED


$ curl -i -u rhqadmin:rhqadmin http://localhost:7080/rest/resource.json\?category=server\&status=new
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
Link: http://localhost:7080/rest/resource.json?category=server&status=new&page=0; rel='last'
Link: http://localhost:7080/rest/resource.json?category=server&status=new; rel='current'
X-collection-size: 2
Content-Type: application/json
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 08:19:17 GMT

[{"resourceName":"snert","resourceId":10033,"typeName":"Samba Server","typeId":10630,"pluginName":"Samba","parentId":10031,"status":"NEW","links":[{"operationDefinitions":{"href":"http://localhost:7080/rest/