def promote_alert_to_case(self, alert_id):
req = self.url + "<STR_LIT>".format(alert_id)<EOL>try:<EOL><INDENT>return requests.post(req, headers={'<STR_LIT:Content-Type>': '<STR_LIT:application/json>'},<EOL>proxies=self.proxies, auth=self.auth,<EOL>verify=self.cert, data=json.dumps({}))<EOL><DEDENT>except requests.exceptions.RequestException as the_exception:<EOL><INDENT>raise AlertException("<STR_LIT>".format(the_exception))<EOL><DEDENT>return None<EOL>
This uses the TheHiveAPI to promote an alert to a case

:param alert_id: Alert identifier
:return: TheHive Case
:rtype: json