600 Get User Information

Introduction

The endpoint of this service allows to get the user information. since 11.13 A new endpoint allows to handle user preferences.

EndPoints

There are two endpoints:

One to get user information

since 11.16

GET http://host:port/app/api/rest/whoami

since 11.12

GET http://host:port/app/api/json/whoami

Legacy endpoint:

http//host:port/app/_plugins/WXM_RESTAPI/page/whoami.jspz

Available method: GET

One to handle preferences

RESTful URIs since 11.14

GET http://host:port/app/api/json/userpref{/name}/{namespace}/{key}

PUT http://host:port/app/api/json/userpref{/name}/{namespace}/{key}

PATCH http://host:port/app/api/json/userpref{/name}/{namespace}/{key}

DELETE http://host:port/app/api/json/userpref{/name}/{namespace}/{key}

URI with parameters

GET http://host:port/app/api/json/userpref

Legacy endpoint:

http//host:port/app/_plugins/WXM_RESTAPI/page/userpref.jspz

Available methods:

GET
POST, PUT, PATCH
DELETE

Getting user information

Parameters

none

Response format

{
  "response": {
    "data": {
      "id": "user id",
      "login": "identifier login",
      "name": "user name",
      "roleId": "user role id",
      "role": "user role name",
      "locale": "user local",
      "login_hints": {
         "id": "oauth2 authentication server id",
         "login_hint": "login hint"
      },
      "queryLocale": "the request current local"
    }
  },
  "links": {
    "href": "http://host:port/app/_plugins/WXM_RESTAPI/page/whoami.jspz"
  },
  "status": 200,
  "time": 439
}

Security

The whoami action of RESTAPI domain allows the management of the endpoint call authorization. The uniq parameter is:

surfer: surfer

Errors codes

HTTP code

API code

Definition

403

403/1000

Forbidden action

Handle user preferences

Parameters

Common to all methods

namespace: (mandatory) the namespace of preference store to get
key: (mandatory) key identifier of the preference value
name: (optional) identifier of an object that stores the preference if it is not the default storage object. The object must have the tag REST_API_PREF (except default storage object)

Only for POST, PUT and PATCH methods

value: value to set to preference
type: type of the value in the preference store (if it is not mentionned, the value can be evaluated automatically).

Response format

{
  "request": {
        "version": "1.2",
        "parameters": {
            "namespace": "bov3",
            "key": "color"
        }
    },
  "response": {
    "data": {
      "type": "string",
      "value": "#FF0000"
    }
  },
  "links": {
    "href": "host:port/app/api/json/userpref?namespace=bov3&key=color"
  },
  "status": 200,
  "time": 121
}

Security

The userpref action of RESTAPI domain allows the management of the endpoint call authorization. There are the following parameters:

surfer: surfer
method: type of access (READ, WRITE or DELETE)
namespace: namespace
key: preference key
name: preference storage object name (could be null)