Read/Write a core's name?

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How do you get a core’s name from the Cloud API?

Querying variable “name” doesn’t work and the coreInfo entity on other variables doesn’t contain it.
Also how do you set it through the API?

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Api call without variable or function gives the name, but you have to parse it from JSON:
https://api.spark.io/v1/devices/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/?access_token=yyyyyyyyyyyyyy

{
  "id": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
  "name": "luigi",
  "variables": {},
  "functions": []
}
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Even returns all the available variables and functions. Nice!
Thanks for the quick reply.

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hmm. @weakset But how do I set the name through the API?

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Actually I haven’t ever tried that direction before, but this seems to work:

curl -X PUT -F name=mario "https://api.spark.io/v1/devices/xxxxxxxxxx/?access_token=yyyyyyyyyyyyyy"

Adapted from firmware upload -example:
http://docs.spark.io/#/api/verifing-and-flashing-new-firmware-flash-a-core-with-source-code

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Wow, how did I not see this yet?

Flash a Core with source code (aka send a source file to be compiled and flashed)

and just below that

Flash a Core with a pre-compiled binary

This is great for automatic field updates to systems using Spark Cores!