REST API: How to set vendor for a component release

[Matthias-SE]

Hi sw360 community,

when I manually create a release for a component in sw360, I'm able to set a vendor. However, I failed to do so via api. Is it possible to set the vendor when creating or updating a release? What's the api call to do so?

I asked the same question in the sw360python project. The developer confirmed that the vendor get's not updated even though the API call itself is reported to be successful: sw360/sw360python#46 (comment) Is this a bug of the REST API, or isn't it even supposed to be supported?

[GMishx]

Hey @Matthias-SE , adding a Vendor is ideally a multi step process:

1. A new Vendor should be created with POST /vendors
2. The ID for the vendor can then be used with parameter "vendorId": "string" in the release body while creating POST /releases or updating PATCH /releases/{id}.

[Matthias-SE]

Thank you very much. It worked