Synology DSM DNS Server API

Adding/removing TXT records to Synology DSM DNS Server script

dnsapi/dns_synology_dsm.sh

@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 
 # Here is a script to add/remove TXT records to DNS Server on Synology DSM
 #
-# Author: Arabezar (on github) aka Arkadii Zhuchenko ©13.07.2020
+# Author: Arabezar aka Arkadii Zhuchenko © 13.07.2020
+# Great thanks to loderunner84 for the invaluable help in synowebapi research
 #
 #returns 0 means success, otherwise error.
 
@@ -22,7 +23,7 @@ dns_synology_dsm_add() {
   maindomain="${fulldomain//_acme-challenge\./}"
   _debug3 maindomain "$maindomain"
 
-  # WebAPI-call can be replaced by adding line to the "/var/packages/DNSServer/target/named/etc/zone/master/$maindomain" file
+  # SynoWebAPI call can be replaced by adding the line to the "/var/packages/DNSServer/target/named/etc/zone/master/$maindomain" file
   response=$(synowebapi --exec api=SYNO.DNSServer.Zone.Record method=create version=1 runner=admin \
     zone_name='"'"${maindomain}"'"' \
     domain_name='"'"${maindomain}"'"' \
@@ -52,9 +53,18 @@ dns_synology_dsm_rm() {
   maindomain="${fulldomain//_acme-challenge\./}"
   _debug3 maindomain "$maindomain"
 
-  # Just removing TXT record from file (calling synowebapi failed due to some bug in specifying "items" param)
-  _dns_zone_url="/var/packages/DNSServer/target/named/etc/zone/master/$maindomain"
-  sed -i "/^${fulldomain}.[[:blank:]]${_DNS_TTL}[[:blank:]]TXT[[:blank:]]\"${txtvalue}\"/d" "$_dns_zone_url"
+  response=$(synowebapi --exec api=SYNO.DNSServer.Zone.Record method=delete version=1 runner=admin \
+    items=["{\"zone_name\":\"$maindomain\",\"domain_name\":\"$maindomain\",\"rr_owner\":\"$fulldomain.\",\"rr_type\":\"TXT\",\"rr_ttl\":\"$_DNS_TTL\",\"rr_info\":\"\\\"$txtvalue\\\"\",\"full_record\":\"$fulldomain.\t$_DNS_TTL\tTXT\t\\\"$txtvalue\\\"\"}"] 2> /dev/null)
 
+  # WebAPI-call can be replaced by removing the line from the "/var/packages/DNSServer/target/named/etc/zone/master/$maindomain" file
+  #_dns_zone_url="/var/packages/DNSServer/target/named/etc/zone/master/$maindomain"
+  #sed -i "/^${fulldomain}.[[:blank:]]${_DNS_TTL}[[:blank:]]TXT[[:blank:]]\"${txtvalue}\"/d" "$_dns_zone_url"
+  
+  _debug3 response "$response"
+
+  if [ "$(echo "$response" | jq '.success')" == true ]; then
       return 0
+  fi
+
+  return 1
 }