API Versioning and Lifecycle Management for SyteLine
SyteLine API changes during upgrades, patches, and cloud updates can break existing integrations if not managed carefully. Infor periodically modifies IDO schemas, adds new properties, deprecates endpoints, and changes API behavior between CloudSuite Industrial releases. A proactive API versioning strategy ensures your integrations remain functional across upgrades and provides a clear migration path when breaking changes occur.
Understanding SyteLine API Change Patterns
SyteLine API changes fall into three categories: additive changes, behavioral changes, and breaking changes. Additive changes include new IDO properties, new IDO methods, and new REST endpoints that do not affect existing integrations. Behavioral changes alter how existing endpoints process requests, such as stricter validation rules or modified default values. Breaking changes remove or rename IDO properties, change method signatures, or alter response structures. Infor documents API changes in the CloudSuite Industrial release notes and the ION API changelog, which should be reviewed before every upgrade.
- Additive (non-breaking): new properties on SLItems IDO, new REST endpoints for recently added modules
- Behavioral: stricter validation on SLCoItems.QtySold property, changed default warehouse assignment logic
- Breaking: renamed RowPointer property to _rowPointer in API v2, removed deprecated SLLotLoc IDO properties
- Review Infor release notes: CloudSuite Industrial > Release Notes > API Changes section before each upgrade
- Subscribe to Infor Support Portal alerts for API deprecation notices and timeline announcements
Designing Version-Resilient Integrations
Build your integrations to tolerate API changes gracefully. Use defensive parsing that ignores unexpected properties rather than failing on unknown fields. Reference IDO properties by name rather than by position in the response array. Implement a compatibility layer or adapter pattern between your business logic and the SyteLine API client, so API changes require updates only in the adapter layer. Version your integration configuration to track which SyteLine API version each environment is running, and use feature flags to enable version-specific behavior.
- Defensive parsing: configure JSON deserializer to ignore unknown properties (e.g., JsonIgnoreProperties in Jackson)
- Property-by-name access: reference record["Item"] instead of record[0] to survive property reordering
- Adapter pattern: create ISyteLineClient interface with version-specific implementations (V10Client, V11Client)
- Feature flags: check SyteLine version at startup and enable/disable API features accordingly
- Contract testing: maintain API contract tests that validate expected properties, types, and response shapes
Migration Planning for API Version Upgrades
When Infor announces a breaking API change, plan your migration well before the upgrade deadline. Start by running your existing integration test suite against a SyteLine test environment upgraded to the new version. Identify all failing tests and categorize the changes required. Implement a parallel-run period where your integration can switch between old and new API versions based on configuration. After validating the new version in staging, deploy the migration in production with rollback capability. Document all API version changes in your integration runbook for future reference.
- Pre-upgrade testing: deploy your integration against a SyteLine sandbox upgraded to the target version
- Change categorization: list every failing API call with old behavior, new behavior, and required code change
- Parallel versioning: support both API versions simultaneously with a version switch in configuration
- Staged rollout: deploy API version changes to one integration at a time, validating each before proceeding
- Rollback plan: maintain the ability to revert to the previous API version for 30 days after migration
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Related Resources
SyteLine REST API Authentication Guide
Configure SyteLine REST API authentication with OAuth 2.0, bearer tokens, and basic auth. Secure your CloudSuite Industrial API integrations with proven patterns.
Infor SyteLineSyteLine REST API Error Codes Reference
Complete SyteLine REST API error code reference. Diagnose HTTP status codes, IDO error responses, and ION API Gateway errors in CloudSuite Industrial integrations.
Infor SyteLineSyteLine API Testing with Postman Guide
Test SyteLine REST APIs using Postman collections. Set up OAuth authentication, create test suites, and automate API validation for CloudSuite Industrial endpoints.