What would be Openshift REST API equivalent of a process template command

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I am automating some continuous delivery processess that use openshift 3.5. They work fine from a command line, but I can hardly find any documentation of how the oc commands map to the OCP REST API. I've figured out how talk to the API and use what it directly offers. For example, I have a line:

oc process build-template -p APPLICATION_NAME=worldcontrol -n openshift | oc create -f - -n conspiracyspace

That takes a template named "build-template" from "openshift" namespace and processes it, piping the resulting definition to build a few objects like application image, into another namespace. I would appreciate an example of how this could be expressed in http request terms.

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Following @Graham's hint, here is what I got. First request is getting the contents of the template:

curl -k -v -XGET  -H "User-Agent: oc/v3.5.5.15 (linux/amd64) openshift/4b5f317" -H "Authorization: Bearer ...." -H "Accept: application/json, */*" https://example.com/oapi/v1/namespaces/openshift/templates/build-template

Then apparently the oc client expands the parameters internally, and feeds the result into the POST:

curl -k -v -XPOST  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "User-Agent: oc/v3.5.5.15 (linux/amd64) openshift/4b5f317" -H "Accept: application/json, */*" -H "Authorization: Bearer ...." https://example.com/oapi/v1/namespaces/openshift/processedtemplates
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I did this, and at the very end of the output from the CLI, I saw this:

service "trade4-65869977-9d56-49a5-afa2-4a547df82d5c" created
deploymentconfig "trade4-65869977-9d56-49a5-afa2-4a547df82d5c" created

When piping to oc create -f -, then, the CLI must be inspecting the resulting template and creating each object in the objects array. No evidence of those calls were outputted to my command window, other than the two "created" statements.

So to fully automate this through the REST API, we would still need to parse that objects array returned by processtemplates and POST to the appropriate endpoints, correct?

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