Provisioning: group API

Managing Groups

Introduction

This document details the end points related to the group management of the OBM provisioning system.

The default exchange format is JSON.

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Namings

In this document we take /provisioning/{apiVersion}/{domainUUID} as the base URI of REST end points. It will be called {baseURI} in the document. The notation {serverBaseURL} represents the root URL of the REST server, eg http://1.2.3.4:8080/ The notation {batchId} represents a unique batch number. The notation {batchStatus} represents a batch status, issued from the batch status list. The notation {apiVersion} represents a string linking to the version of the API that the client want to use (eg. "v1") The notation {groupId} represents a unique group id. The notation {userId} represents a unique user id.

Resources used

 

Group Resource

Example:

{
  "id": "84109ac4-9979-4692-aee9-0a9ab66621ca",
  "name": "admin",
  "email": "group@domain",
  "description": "System Administrators",
  "members": { group member resource }
}

Required Properties:

Property Name Value Type Description
id string The unique id representing the group resource
name string The short (common) name of the group

Optional Properties:

Property Name Value Type Description
email string The mail of the group. It is used as alias
description string The long description of the group
members object A Group member resource with the group members

Group member resource

Example:

{
  "users": [
    group user resource
  ],
  "subgroups": [
    group user resource
  ],
}

Optional Properties:

Property Name Value Type Description
users[] list A list of users in a group
subgroups[] list A list of subgroups in a group

 

 

Creating a group

Definition

This end point creates a new group with a server-generated group id. If you want to create a group with an existing id, use the endpoint for updating a group instead.

REST information

  • method: POST
  • uri: {baseURI}/batches/{batchId}/groups
  • query string arguments: none
  • request body: json data structure describing group properties

  • return code:

    • 201 Created if the group has been created
    • 5XX errors on errors
  • return content:

    • On success: nothing
    • On error: see "standard errors"

Modifying a group with full information

Definition

The objective of this end point is to overwrite an already existing group with a defined {groupId}.

REST information

  • method: PUT
  • uri: {baseURI}/batches/{batchId}/groups/{groupId}
  • query string arguments: none
  • request body: json data structure describing group properties

  • return code:

    • 200 Success if the group is already in existence and properties were successfully updated
    • 5XX errors on errors
  • return content:

    • On success: modified group properties object
    • On error: see "standard errors"

Modifying a group with partial information

Definition

The objective of this end point is to modify an already existing group.

REST information

  • method: PATCH
  • uri: {baseURI}/batches/{batchId}/groups/{groupId}
  • query string arguments: none
  • request body: json data structure describing changed group properties

  • return code:

    • 200 Success if patching the object was successful
    • 5XX errors on errors
  • return content:

    • On success: modified (full) group properties object
    • On error: see "standard errors"

 

 

Deleting a group

Definition

This endpoint deletes a specific group specified by the {groupId}.

REST information

  • method: DELETE
  • uri: {baseURI}/batches/{batchId}/groups/{groupId}
  • query string arguments: none
  • request body: none

  • return code:

    • 200 Success if the group was deleted
    • 404 Not Found if the groupId or batchId was not found
    • 5XX errors on errors
  • return content:

    • On success: no content
    • On error: see "standard errors"

Adding a user to a group

Definition

The objective of this end point is to add a user to the list of the users belonging to the group.

REST Information

  • method: PUT
  • uri: {baseURI}/batches/{batchId}/groups/{groupId}/users/{userId}
  • query string arguments: none
  • request body: none

  • return code:

    • 200 Success if the user was already part of the group
    • 201 Created if the user was added to the group
    • 404 Not Found if the userId, groupId or batchId was not found
    • 5XX errors on errors
  • return content:

    • On success: no content
    • On error: see "standard errors"

Assigning a user list to a group

Definition

The objective of this end point is to set the list of the users belonging to the group.

REST information

  • method: PUT
  • uri: {baseURI}/batches/{batchId}/groups/{groupId}/members
  • query string arguments: none
  • request body:

    { "users": [] "subgroups": [] }

  • return code:

    • 200 Success if assigning the user list succeeded
    • 404 Not Found if the groupId or batchId was not found
    • 5XX errors on errors
  • return content:

    • On success: no content
    • On error: see "standard errors"

Removing a user from a group

Definition

The objective of this end point is to remove a user from the list of the users belonging to the group.

REST information

  • method: DELETE
  • uri: {baseURI}/batches/{batchId}/groups/{groupId}/users/{userId}
  • query string arguments: none
  • request body: none

  • return code:

    • 200 Success if the user was removed from the group
    • 404 Not Found if the userId, groupId or batchId was not found
    • 5XX errors on errors
  • return content:

    • On success: no content
    • On error: see "standard errors"

Adding a subgroup to a group

Definition

The objective of this end point is to add a subgroup to a group.

REST information

  • method: PUT
  • uri: {baseURI}/batches/{batchId}/groups/{groupId}/subgroups/{groupId}
  • query string arguments: none
  • request body: none

  • return code:

    • 200 Success if the subgroup was already part of the group
    • 201 Created if the subgroup was added to the group
    • 404 Not Found if either groupId or the batchId was not found
    • 5XX errors on errors
  • return content:

    • On success: no content
    • On error: see "standard errors"

Removing a subgroup from a group

Definition

The objective of this end point is to remove a subgroup from a group.

REST information

  • method: DELETE
  • uri: {baseURI}/batches/{batchId}/groups/{groupId}/subgroup/{groupId}
  • query string arguments: none
  • request body: none

  • return code:

    • 200 Success if the subgroup was removed from the group
    • 404 Not Found if either groupId or the batchId was not found
    • 5XX errors on errors
  • return content:

    • On success: no content
    • On error: see "standard errors"

 

 

Getting a group

Definition

This endpoint allows retrieving information about a group, specifically group properties.

REST information

  • method: GET
  • uri: {baseURI}/groups/{groupId}
  • query string arguments:
    • expandDepth - A number value specifying how deep users and groups are expanded. -1 means infinite recursion, 0 means do not specify users or groups, any other other number is the level of recursion while expanding.
  • request body: none

  • return code:

    • 200 Success if the group was found
    • 404 Not found if the groupId was not found
    • 5XX errors on errors
  • return HTTP header: none

  • return content:

    • On success: group resource
    • On error: see "standard errors"

 

Getting the user members of a group

Definition

This endpoint retrieves all users contained in a group

REST information

  • method: GET
  • uri: {baseURI}/groups/{groupId}/users
  • query string arguments: none
  • request body: none

  • return code:

    • 200 Success if the group was found
    • 404 Not found if the groupId was not found
    • 5XX errors on errors
  • return HTTP header: none
  • return content:
    • On success: group members resource with users list filled in
    • On error: see "standard errors"

Getting the subgroup members of a group

Definition

This endpoint retrieves all subgroups contained in a group

REST information

  • method: GET
  • uri: {baseURI}/groups/{groupId}/subgroups
  • query string arguments: none
  • request body: none

  • return code:

    • 200 Success if the group was found
    • 404 Not found if the groupId was not found
    • 5XX errors on errors
  • return HTTP header: none
  • return content:
    • On success: group members resource with subgroups list filled in
    • On error: see "standard errors"

 

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