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Identity API

The Identity Rest API allows to manage the Bonita’s organization.

Professional and Personal contact data

Description

Additional information about a user (personal and professional). Both resources have the same attributes.

Identifier

The user ID (a long value).

Representation

{
  "id":"user ID",
  "fax_number":"fax number",
  "building":"building",
  "phone_number":"phone number",
  "website":"website",
  "zipcode":"zipcode",
  "state":"state",
  "city":"city",
  "country":"country",
  "mobile_number":"mobile phone number",
  "address":"address",
  "room":"room",
  "email":"email"
}

Methods

The methods used for this resource are:

  • POST - Create a user’s contact information

  • GET - Read a user’s contact information

  • PUT - Update a user’s contact information

Create contact information

  • URL
    /API/identity/professionalcontactdata
    or
    /API/identity/personalcontactdata

  • Method
    POST

  • Request Payload
    A partial representation of a user’s contact information in JSON including the user ID (mandatory)

    {
      "id":"4",
      "fax_number":"484-302-0766",
      "building":"70",
      "phone_number":"484-302-5766",
      "zipcode":"19108",
      "state":"PA",
      "city":"Philadelphia",
      "country":"United States",
      "address":"Renwick Drive",
      "email":"walter.bates@acme.com"
    }
  • Success Response
    The full JSON representation of the user’s contact information that was created

    • Code: 200

    • Payload:

      {
        "id":"4",
        "fax_number":"484-302-0766",
        "building":"70",
        "phone_number":"484-302-5766",
        "website":"",
        "zipcode":"19108",
        "state":"PA",
        "city":"Philadelphia",
        "country":"United States",
        "mobile_number":"",
        "address":"Renwick Drive",
        "email":"walter.bates@acme.com",
        "room":""
      }
  • Error Response

    • Code: 403 if contact information for this user already exists

Read a user’s contact information

  • URL
    /API/identity/professionalcontactdata/:userId
    or
    /API/identity/personalcontactdata/:userId

  • Method
    GET

  • Success Response
    A user’s contact information in JSON

    • Code: 200

    • Payload:

      {
        "id":"4",
        "fax_number":"484-302-0766",
        "building":"70",
        "phone_number":"484-302-5766",
        "website":"",
        "zipcode":"19108",
        "state":"PA",
        "city":"Philadelphia",
        "country":"United States",
        "mobile_number":"",
        "address":"Renwick Drive",
        "email":"walter.bates@acme.com",
        "room":""
      }
  • Error Response

    • Code: 404 if no user with this ID is found

Update a user’s contact information

  • URL
    /API/identity/professionalcontactdata/:userId
    or
    /API/identity/personalcontactdata/:userId

  • Method
    PUT

  • Request Payload
    A partial representation of a user’s contact information in JSON with at least the mandatory "name" attribute

    {
      "fax_number":"484-302-0766",
      "building":"70",
      "phone_number":"484-302-5766",
      "zipcode":"19108",
      "state":"PA",
      "city":"Philadelphia",
      "country":"United States",
      "address":"Renwick Drive",
      "email":"walter.bates@acme.com"
    }
  • Error Response

    • Code: 404 if no user with this ID is found

Group

Description

The group a user belongs to. Groups have a hierarchy (subgroups can be created inside a group).

Identifier

The ID of the group (a long value).

Representation

{
  "id":"group ID",
  "name":"display name",
  "displayName":"name",
  "parent_path":"the path of the parent group of this group (empty if the group has no parent)",
  "path":"the full path of the group (including its parent path)",
  "description":"description",
  "creation_date":"creation date (format: "2014-12-31 15:17:24.736")",
  "created_by_user_id":"id of the user who created the group (-1 if the group was created by the tenant admin or by an organisation import)",
  "last_update_date":"last update date (format: "2014-12-31 15:17:24.736")",
  "icon":"icon path"
}

Methods

The methods used for this resource are:

  • POST - Create a group

  • GET - Read a group or search for a group

  • PUT - Update a group

  • DELETE - Remove a group

Create a group

  • URL
    /API/identity/group

  • Method
    POST

  • Data Params

  • Request Payload
    A partial representation of a group in JSON with at least the mandatory "name" attribute

    {
      "icon":"","name":"HR",
      "displayName":"Human Resources",
      "parent_group_id":"1",
      "description":"Human resources department"
    }
  • Success Response
    The full JSON representation of the group that was created

    • Code: 200

    • Payload:

      {
        "id":"14",
        "creation_date":"2014-12-02 16:19:28.925",
        "created_by_user_id":"4",
        "icon":"","parent_path":"/acme"
        ,"description":"Human resources department",
        "name":"HR",
        "path":"/acme/HR",
        "displayName":"Human Resources",
        "last_update_date":"2014-12-02 16:19:28.925"
      }
  • Error Response

    • Code: 403 if a group with the same name and parent already exists

Read a group

  • URL
    /API/identity/group/:groupId

  • Method
    GET

  • Success Response
    A group in JSON

    • Code: 200

    • Payload:

      {
        "id":"14",
        "creation_date":"2014-12-02 16:19:28.925",
        "created_by_user_id":"4",
        "icon":"","parent_path":"/acme",
        "description":"Human resources department",
        "name":"HR",
        "path":"/acme/HR",
        "displayName":"Human Resources",
        "last_update_date":"2014-12-02 16:19:28.925"
      }
  • Error Response

    • Code: 404 if no group with this ID is found

Search for a group

  • URL
    /API/identity/group
    Example: /API/identity/group?p=0&c=100&f=parent_path%3d/acme&d=parent_group_id&o=name%20ASC

  • Method
    GET

  • Data Params
    Standard search parameters are available to search form mappings.
    It is possible to filter on the following attributes:

    • name=<group_name>

    • displayName=<group_displayName>

    • parent\_path=<path_of_parent_group>

      It is possible to order by the value of the following attributes:

    • o=id ASC ou o=id DESC)

    • o=name ASC ou o=name DESC

    • o=displayName ASC ou o=displayName DESC

    It is also possible to retrieve the parent group ID.

    • d=<parent_group_id>

  • Success Response
    A list of groups in JSON

    • Code: 200

    • Payload:

      [
        {
          "id":"3",
          "creation_date":"2014-12-02 11:33:48.501",
          "created_by_user_id":"-1",
          "icon":"",
          "parent_path":"/acme",
          "description":"This group represents the finance department of the ACME organization",
          "name":"finance",
          "path":"/acme/finance",
          "parent_group_id":"1",
          "displayName":"Finance",
          "last_update_date":"2014-12-02 11:33:48.501"
        }, {
          "id":"14",
          "creation_date":"2014-12-02 16:19:28.925",
          "created_by_user_id":"4",
          "icon":"",
          "parent_path":"/acme",
          "description":"Human resources department",
          "name":"HR",
          "path":"/acme/HR",
          "parent_group_id":"1",
          "displayName":"Human Resources",
          "last_update_date":"2014-12-02 16:19:28.925"
        }
      ]

Update a group

  • URL
    /API/identity/group/:groupId

  • Method
    PUT

  • Request Payload
    A partial representation of a group in JSON with at least the mandatory "name" attribute

    {
      "name":"HR",
      "displayName":"Humman resources"
    }
  • Success Response
    The full JSON representation of the group that was updated

    • Code: 200

    • Payload:

      {
        "id":"14",
        "creation_date":"2014-12-02 16:19:28.925",
        "created_by_user_id":"4",
        "icon":"",
        "parent_path":"/acme",
        "description":"Human resources department",
        "name":"HR",
        "path":"/acme/HR",
        "displayName":"Human resources",
        "last_update_date":"2014-12-03 17:18:27.542"
      }
  • Error Response

    • Code: 403 if another group with the same name and parent already exists
      404 if no group with this ID is found

Delete a group

  • URL
    /API/identity/group/:groupId

  • Method
    DELETE

  • Success Response

    • Code: 200

  • Error Response

    • Code: 404 if no group with this ID is found

Membership

Description

Manage membership of users. There is a membership when a user belongs to a group and a role. Use this resource to add, search, and delete memberships.

Identifier

A compound identifier constructed from user_id/group_id/role_id where each id is a long value.

Representation

{
  "assigned_date":"creation date (format: "2014-12-31 15:17:24.736")",
  "role_id":"id of the role of this membership",
  "assigned_by_user_id":"id of the user who created the membership (-1 if the role was created by the tenant admin or by an organisation import)",
  "group_id":"id of the group of this membership",
  "user_id":"id of the user in this membership"
}

Methods

The methods used for this resource are:

  • POST - Create a membership

  • GET - Search for memberships of a user

  • DELETE - Remove a membership

  • DELETE - Remove a membership

Create a membership

This action creates (assigns) a membership to a user.

  • URL
    /API/identity/membership

  • Method
    POST

  • Request Payload
    A partial representation of a membership object with the mandatory "user_id", "group_id" and "role_id" attributes

    {
      "user_id":"4",
      "group_id":"5",
      "role_id":"1"
    }
  • Success Response
    The full JSON representation of the membership that was created

    • Code: 200

    • Payload:

      {
        "assigned_date":"2014-12-02 17:57:09.315",
        "role_id":"1",
        "assigned_by_user_id":"-1",
        "group_id":"5",
        "user_id":"4"
      }
  • Error Response

    • Code: 403 if a membership already exists

Search memberships of a user

This action search memberships of a user.

  • URL
    /API/identity/membership

  • Method
    GET

  • Data Params
    Standard search parameters are available.
    Required

    • filter is mandatory: user_id=<id of the user>

      It is possible to use the deploy option to retrieve the value of elements specified by an attribute value. For example, if you specify d=group_id, the result will contain the group details in place of the group id.

    • group d=group_id

    • role d=role_id

    • user d=user_id

    • user that created the membership d=assigned_by_user_id

      It is possible to order by the value of the following attributes:

    • o=ROLE_NAME_ASC or o=ROLE_NAME_DESC

    • o=GROUP_NAME_ASC or o=GROUP_NAME_DESC

    • o=ASSIGNED_DATE_ASC or o=ASSIGNED_DATE_DESC

    Example: Get the memberships for the user with id 125, and return the role details associated with each membership: /API/identity/membership?p=0&c=10&f=user\_id%3d125&d=role\_id

  • Success Response

    • Code: 200

    • Payload:

      [
        {
          "assigned_date":"2014-12-02 17:57:09.315",
          "role_id": {
            "creation_date":"2014-12-01 18:51:54.791",
            "created_by_user_id":"4",
            "id":"4",
            "icon":"",
            "description":"manager of the department",
            "name":"manager",
            "displayName":"department manager",
            "last_update_date":"2014-12-01 18:51:54.791"
          },
          "assigned_by_user_id":"12",
          "group_id":"5",
          "user_id":"125"
        }
      ]

Delete a membership

Delete a membership of a user using the group id and role id.

  • URL
    /API/identity/membership/:userId/:groupId/:roleId

  • Method
    DELETE

  • Success Response

    • Code: 200

Role

Description

The role of a user in a group

Identifier

The ID of the role (a long value).

Representation

{
  "id":"role ID",
  "name":"display name",
  "displayName":"name",
  "description":"description",
  "creation_date":"creation date (format: "2014-12-31 15:17:24.736")",
  "created_by_user_id":"Id of the user who created the role (-1 if the role was created by the tenant admin or by an organisation import)",
  "last_update_date":"last update date (format: "2014-12-31 15:17:24.736")",
  "icon":"icon path"
}

Methods

The methods used for this resource are:

  • POST - Create a role

  • GET - Read a role or search for a role

  • PUT - Update a role

  • DELETE - Remove a role

Create a role

  • URL
    /API/identity/role

  • Method
    POST

  • Request Payload
    A partial representation of a role in JSON with at least the mandatory "name" attribute

    {
      "icon":"",
      "name":"manager",
      "displayName":"department manager",
      "description":"manager of the department"
    }
  • Success Response
    The full JSON representation of the role that was created

    • Code: 200

    • Payload:

      {
        "creation_date":"2014-12-01 18:51:54.791",
        "created_by_user_id":"4",
        "id":"4",
        "icon":"",
        "description":"manager of the department",
        "name":"manager",
        "displayName":"department manager",
        "last_update_date":"2014-12-01 18:51:54.791"
      }
  • Error Response

    • Code: 403 if a role with the same name already exists

Read a role

  • URL
    /API/identity/role/:roleId

  • Method
    GET

  • Success Response
    A role in JSON

    • Code: 200

    • Payload:

      {
        "creation_date":"2014-12-01 15:17:24.736",
        "created_by_user_id":"-1",
        "id":"1",
        "icon":"",
        "description":"",
        "name":"member",
        "displayName":"Member",
        "last_update_date":"2014-12-01 15:17:24.736"
      }
  • Error Response

    • Code: 404 if no role with this ID is found

Search for a role

  • URL
    /API/identity/role
    Example: /API/identity/role?p=0&c=100&o=displayName ASC

  • Method
    GET

  • Data Params
    It is possible to filter on the following attributes

    • name=<role_name>

    • displayName=<role_displayName>

    It is possible to order by the value of the following attributes

    • id: o=id ASC or o=id DESC

    • name: o=name ASC or o=name DESC

    • displayName: o=displayName ASC or o=displayName DESC

  • Success Response
    A list of roles in JSON

    • Code: 200

    • Payload:

      [
        {
          "creation_date":"2014-12-01 18:51:54.791",
          "created_by_user_id":"4",
          "id":"4",
          "icon":"",
          "description":"manager of the department",
          "name":"manager",
          "displayName":"department manager",
          "last_update_date":"2014-12-01 18:51:54.791"
        },
        {
          "creation_date":"2014-12-01 15:17:24.736",
          "created_by_user_id":"-1",
          "id":"1",
          "icon":"",
          "description":"",
          "name":"member",
          "displayName":"Member",
          "last_update_date":"2014-12-01 15:17:24.736"
        }
      ]

Update a role

  • URL
    /API/identity/role/:roleId

  • Method
    PUT

  • Request Payload
    A partial representation of a role in JSON with at least the mandatory "name" attribute

    {
      "name":"Manager",
      "displayName":"Department manager"
    }
  • Success Response
    The full JSON representation of the role that was updated

    • Code: 200

    • Payload:

      {
        "creation_date":"2014-12-01 18:51:54.791",
        "created_by_user_id":"4",
        "id":"4",
        "icon":"",
        "description":"manager of the department",
        "name":"Manager",
        "displayName":"Department manager",
        "last_update_date":"2014-12-01 18:59:59.361"
      }
  • Error Response

    • Code: 403 : if a role with the same name already exists
      404 : if no role with this ID is found

Delete a role

  • URL
    /API/identity/role/:roleId

  • Method
    DELETE

  • Success Response

    • Code: 200

  • Error Response

    • Code: 404 if no role with this ID is found

User

Description

Used to manage information about users.

Representation

Returns a JSON representation of user details. The "manager_id" and "professional_data" are omitted unless they are requested in the payload.

{
  "last_connection":"date",
  "created_by_user_id":"number",
  "creation_date":"date",
  "id":"number",
  "icon":"string",
  "enabled":"true | false",
  "title":"string",
  "professional_data": {
    "fax_number":"string",
    "building":"string",
    "phone_number":"string",
    "website":"string",
    "zipcode":"string",
    "state":"string",
    "city":"string",
    "country":"string",
    "id":"number",
    "mobile_number":"string",
    "address":"string",
    "email":"string",
    "room":"string"
  },
  "manager_id":{
    "last_connection":"date",
    "created_by_user_id":"number",
    "creation_date":"date",
    "id":"number",
    "icon":"string",
    "enabled":"true | false",
    "title":"string",
    "manager_id":"number",
    "job_title":"string",
    "userName":"string",
    "lastname":"string",
    "firstname":"string",
    "password":"",
    "last_update_date":"date"
  },
  "job_title":"string",
  "userName":"string",
  "lastname":"string",
  "firstname":"string",
  "password":"",
  "last_update_date":"date"
}

Methods

The methods used for this resource are:

  • POST - Create a user

  • GET - Read a user details or search for a group of users

  • PUT - Update a user

  • DELETE - Remove a user

Create a user

  • URL
    /API/identity/user

  • Method
    POST

  • Request Payload
    A partial representation of a user in JSON

    {
      "userName":"New.User",
      "password":"bpm",
      "password_confirm":"bpm",
      "icon":"",
      "firstname":"New",
      "lastname":"User",
      "title":"Mr",
      "job_title":"Human resources benefits",
      "manager_id":"3"
    }
  • Success Response
    The full JSON representation of the user that was created
    After creation, the user is in inactive state.

    • Code: 200

    • Payload:

      {
        "last_connection":"",
        "created_by_user_id":"4",
        "creation_date":"2014-12-09 17:43:28.291",
        "id":"101",
        "icon":"/default/icon_user.png",
        "enabled":"false",
        "title":"Mr",
        "manager_id":"3",
        "job_title":"Human resources benefits",
        "userName":"New.User",
        "lastname":"New",
        "firstname":"User",
        "password":"",
        "last_update_date":"2014-12-09 17:43:28.291"
      }

Read a user details

  • URL
    /API/identity/user/:userId
    Example: Get details of a specified user including professional and manager information : /API/identity/user/21?d=professional\_data&d=manager\_id

  • Method
    GET

  • Data Params
    Standard search parameters are available.

    • d=professional_data - include professionnal data in response

    • d=manager_id - include details of user’s manager in response

  • Success Response
    The full JSON representation of the user

    • Code: 200

    • Payload:

      {
        "last_connection":"",
        "created_by_user_id":"-1",
        "creation_date":"2014-12-01 10:39:55.177",
        "id":"21",
        "icon":"/default/icon_user.png",
        "enabled":"true",
        "title":"Mrs",
        "professional_data":{
          "fax_number":"484-302-0430",
          "building":"70",
          "phone_number":"484-302-5430",
          "website":"",
          "zipcode":"19108",
          "state":"PA",
          "city":"Philadelphia",
          "country":"United States",
          "id":"21",
          "mobile_number":"",
          "address":"Renwick Drive",
          "email":"giovanna.almeida@acme.com",
          "room":""
        },
        "manager_id":{
          "last_connection":"",
          "created_by_user_id":"-1",
          "creation_date":"2014-12-01 10:39:55.136",
          "id":"17",
          "icon":"/default/icon_user.png",
          "enabled":"true",
          "title":"Mrs",
          "manager_id":"1",
          "job_title":"Vice President of Sales",
          "userName":"daniela.angelo",
          "lastname":"Angelo",
          "firstname":"Daniela",
          "password":"",
          "last_update_date":"2014-12-01 10:39:55.136"
        },
        "job_title":"Account manager",
        "userName":"giovanna.almeida",
        "lastname":"Almeida",
        "firstname":"Giovanna",
        "password":"",
        "last_update_date":"2014-12-01 10:39:55.177"
      }

Search for a group of users

  • URL
    /API/identity/user
    Example: Search for users with names that contain "will", filter to keep only enabled users, and order the result by last name.: /API/identity/user?p=0&c=10&o=lastname%20ASC&s=will&f=enabled%3dtrue

  • Method
    GET

  • Data Params
    Standard search parameters are available.

    • `d=professional_data - include professionnal data in response

    • `d=manager_id - include details of user’s manager in response

  • Success Response
    A JSON array of users

    • Code: 200

    • Payload:

      [
        {
          "last_connection":"2014-12-09 14:52:06.092",
          "created_by_user_id":"-1",
          "creation_date":"2014-12-08 17:16:40.984",
          "id":"1","icon":"/default/icon_user.png",
          "enabled":"true",
          "title":"Mr",
          "manager_id":"0",
          "job_title":"Chief Executive Officer",
          "userName":"william.jobs",
          "lastname":"Jobs",
          "firstname":"William",
          "password":"",
          "last_update_date":"2014-12-08 17:16:40.984"
        },
        {
          "last_connection":"",
          "created_by_user_id":"-1",
          "creation_date":"2014-12-08 17:16:41.030",
          "id":"5",
          "icon":"/default/icon_user.png",
          "enabled":"true",
          "title":"Mr",
          "manager_id":"1",
          "job_title":"Chief Financial Officer",
          "userName":"zachary.williamson",
          "lastname":"Williamson",
          "firstname":"Zachary",
          "password":"",
          "last_update_date":"2014-12-08 17:16:41.030"
        }
      ]

Update a user

  • URL
    API/identity/user/:userId

  • Method
    PUT

  • Request Payload
    A JSON representation of the user, with the new information.
    Example: Update user details including professional and manager information: /API/identity/user/4

    {
      "id"="4",
      "userName":"walter.bates",
      "password":"bpm",
      "password_confirm":"bpm",
      "icon":"",
      "firstname":"Walter",
      "lastname":"Bates",
      "title":"Mr",
      "job_title":"Human resources benefits",
      "manager_id":"3"
    }

    Deactivate the user identified by id 9 : /API/identity/user/9

    {
      "enabled":"false"
    }
  • Success Response

    • Code: 200

Remove a user

Use this method with caution: some artifacts like applications, cases or users may present display problems in the Bonita Portal if the referenced user was deleted.
Note that you can disable a user instead of deleting it. To do so, use the UPDATE method and set the attribute 'enabled' to false

  • URL
    /API/identity/user/:userId

  • Method
    DELETE

  • Success Response

    • Code: 200