/api/bootstrap not available

[choongjoey]

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Home Assistant release (hass --version):
0.57.2

Python release (python3 --version):
3.6.3

Component/platform:
frontend

Description of problem:
I noticed /api/bootstrap is removed in #9915

Refer to 6f764c0#diff-f49ba198ea571d90a85013efb63f8f44L297

Is this an intended removal or a side effect due to the consolidation?

Expected:
/api/bootstrap available to invoked - as per API docs.

[danielperna84]

This change also broke some of the functionality of the HASS-Configurator (fetching entities etc.).

[PaulAnnekov]

API was broken, tests didn't fail -> bad tests.

[danielperna84]

Meanwhile it has been removed from the documentation as well: home-assistant/home-assistant.io@7cd00fb
So apparently this was intended. I'm unsure if this should have been mentioned as a breaking change, since internally it might not be used. But for 3rd party tools it's a problem.

[choongjoey]

So any alternatives to using /api/bootstrap? especially since now its 'officially' removed.

[danielperna84]

For the configurator the relevant parts were the entities, services and events. They all are available via separate API-endpoints. See the docs for what is still available. I don't know what else was part of the bootstrap. But the three I use availalbe in the exactly same format, just not within the containing object anymore.

[tadly]

I f.e. require a list of all entities with both their friendly and entity name.
None of the endpoints documented will provide these kind of information (/api/bootstrap did) afaik.

Edit:
Actually, never mind. /api/states seems to be good enough for my purposes

[danielperna84]

Closing issue since the change seems to be intentional and workarounds are possible.