API
Overview
Use the IBS-API in order to shadow files and other types of entites and to manage storages.
General Parameters
If a UUID is required as parameter, you can submit the uuid via
url: /api/v1/entity/<uuid>
parameter: /api/v1/entity?action=update&uuid=<uuid>
The action parameter:
can be submitted as parameter: /api/entity?action=update
can be submitted as HTTP-Verb:
Request-Method (HTTP-Verb) | action |
|---|---|
DELETE | delete |
PUT | update |
PATCH | update |
POST | if the action-parameter is missing:
|
GET | info |
else | must be submitted as parameter |
method-override
If it is not possible to sent a DELETE-request, you can add "x-http-method-override" or "x-method-override" with the request-method to the header of the request. See also http://fandry.blogspot.com/2012/03/x-http-header-method-override-and-rest.html
authentication
If in "context.xml" of the webapplication the "appuser" and "apppw" are missing, these have to be transferred either
via http-header "api-username" and "api-password"
or via parameter "api-username" and "api-password" at each request.
Server-Options
In table "server" the following options can be set: