Web API for User Management

This page describes all Web API operations for user management.

Entities

The user management API is based on the following entities:

User/group

The User/group entity contains both users and groups.

Properties:

• Id (integer): user/group id.
• IsGroup (boolean): false for users, true for groups.
• LoginName (string): user login name (empty/ignored for groups).
• FullName (string): user/group full name.
• Email (string): user/group email address.
• Password (string): user password. Used only when creating or updating users.
• IsActive (boolean): flag whether user/group is active.
• Description (string): user/group description.

Role assignment

The Role assignment describes that a role is given to a certain user/group.

Properties: - Id (integer): user/group id - ProjectId (integer): project id for project-specific role assignments. Missing for gloobal permissions. - RoleId (integer): role id

Membership

The Membership describes that a user belongs to a group.

Properties: - GroupId (integer): parent (container) group id. - MemberId (integer): child (member) user/group id. - RoleName (string): membership role. Supported membership types are Member, HiddenMember, Administrator.

Role

The Roles describles available roles in the system.

Properties:

• Id (integer): role id.
• Name (string): role name.
• IsGlobal (boolean): true if role is global, false if project specific.
• IsProject (boolean): true if role is project-specific, false otherwise

Methods

GET api/users

Gets a list of users/groups. Supported query parameters:

• isGroup (boolean): if false, only users are returned; if true, only groups are returned. Optional.
• isActive (boolean): if false or omitted, all users/groups are returned; if true, only active users/groups are returned. Optional.

Returns array of user/group objects. Can be empty if criteria specified by parameters is not matched.

GET api/users/{id}

Gets information of the user/group with given id. Returns the user/group object. Can return null if not found.

POST api/users POST

Creates a new user/group. Takes a user/group object in the body. Note that the id property is ignored if specified. Returns id of the created user/group.

PUT api/users

Updates an existing user/group. Takes a user/group object in the body. Note that the isGroup property is ignored.

GET api/users/roleassignments/{id}

Gets a list of role assignments of the user/group with given id. Returns an array of role assignment objects.

PUT api/users/roleassignments

Adds a role assignment. Takes a role assignment object in the body.

DELETE api/users/roleassignments

Removes a role assignment. Takes a role assignment object in the body.

GET api/users/memberships/{id}

Gets a list of memberships of the user/group with given id. Returns an array of membership objects, which can be empty if user/group is not member of any group.

PUT api/users/memberships

Adds a membership. Takes a membership object in the body.

DELETE api/users/memberships

Removes a membership. Takes a membership object in the body.

GET api/users/roles

Gets a list of all roles in the system. Returns an array of role objects.