REST API User

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User Register

URL	Requires Auth	HTTP Method
/users/register	no	POST

Payload

Argument	Example	Required	Description
username	myusername	Required	Your username
password	my$up3erP@ssw0rd	Required	Your password
email	my@email.com	Required	Your email

• Notes:
• You will need to provide the token for any of the authenticated methods.

Example Call - As Form Data

curl http://localhost:3000/users/register \
     -d "username=myusername&password=mypassword&email=my@email.com"

Example Call - As JSON

curl -H "Content-type:application/json" \
      http://localhost:3000/users/register \
      -d '{ "username": "myusername", "password": "mypassword", "email": "my@email.com" }'

Result

{
  "id": "user id",
  "token": "string",
  "tokenExpires": "ISO encoded date string"
}

Result example

{
  "id": "XQMZgynx9M79qTtQc",
  "token": "ExMp2s9ML1JNp_l11sIfINPT3wykZ1SsVwg-cnxKdc8",
  "tokenExpires": "2017-12-15T00:47:26.303Z"
}

User Create

URL	Requires Admin Auth	HTTP Method
/api/users	yes	POST

Payload

Argument	Example	Required	Description
username	myusername	Required	Your username
password	my$up3erP@ssw0rd	Required	Your password
email	my@email.com	Required	Your email

• Notes:
• You will need to provide the token for any of the authenticated methods.

Example Call - As Form Data

curl  -H "Authorization: Bearer a6DM_gOPRwBdynfXaGBaiiEwTiAuigR_Fj_81QmNpnf" \
      -X POST \
      http://localhost:3000/api/users \
      -d "username=myusername&password=mypassword&email=my@email.com"

Example Call - As JSON

curl  -H "Authorization: Bearer a6DM_gOPRwBdynfXaGBaiiEwTiAuigR_Fj_81QmNpnf" \
      -H "Content-type:application/json" \
      -X POST \
      http://localhost:3000/api/users \
      -d '{ "username": "myusername", "password": "mypassword", "email": "my@email.com" }'

Example of all steps of create user

1. Login

curl http://example.com/users/login \
     -d "username=YOUR-USERNAME-HERE&password=YOUR-PASSWORD-HERE"

As response you get your id and token:

"id":"YOUR-ID-HERE","token":"YOUR-TOKEN-HERE","tokenExpires":"2017-12-23T21:07:10.395Z"}

2. Create user. Works both when serf-register enabled and disabled.

curl  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR-TOKEN-HERE" \
      -H "Content-type:application/json" \
      -X POST \
      http://example.com/api/users \
      -d '{ "username": "tester", "password": "tester", "email": "tester@example.com", "fromAdmin": "true" }'

As reply you get new user's id.

{"id":"NEW-USER-ID-HERE"}

3. You can get user details with your new user's id:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR-TOKEN-HERE" \
      http://example.com/api/users/NEW-USER-ID-HERE

Result

Returns the id of the created user.

{
  "_id": "user id"
}

Result example

{
  "_id": "EnhMbvxh65Hr7YvtG"
}

User Delete

IMPORTANT : Should not be used as long as this bug exists.

URL	Requires Admin Auth	HTTP Method
/api/users/:id	yes	DELETE

Parameters

Argument	Example	Required	Description
id	BsNr28znDkG8aeo7W	Required	The id of the user to delete.

Example Call

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer a6DM_gOPRwBdynfXaGBaiiEwTiAuigR_Fj_81QmNpnf" \
      -X DELETE \
      http://localhost:3000/api/users/EnhMbvxh65Hr7YvtG    

Example Result

Returns the id of the deleted user.

{
  "_id": "EnhMbvxh65Hr7YvtG"
}

User Information

Retrieves information about a user.

URL	Requires Admin Auth	HTTP Method
/api/users/:id	yes	GET

• Notes:
• You will need to provide the token for any of the authenticated methods.
• Only the admin user (the first user) can call the REST API.

Example Call

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer a6DM_gOPRwBdynfXaGBaiiEwTiAuigR_Fj_81QmNpnf" \
      http://localhost:3000/api/users/XQMZgynx9M79qTtQc

Result example

{
  "_id": "XQMZgynx9M79qTtQc",
  "createdAt": "2017-09-13T06:45:53.127Z",
  "services": {
    "password": {
      "bcrypt": "$2a$10$CRZrpT4x.VpG2FdJxR3rN.9m0NbQb0OPsSPBDAZukggxrskMtWA8."
    },
    "email": {
      "verificationTokens": [
        {
          "token": "8rzwpq_So2PVYHVSfrcc5f5QZnuV2wEtu7QRQGwOJx8",
          "address": "my@email.com",
          "when": "2017-09-13T06:45:53.157Z"
        }
      ]
    },
    "resume": {
      "loginTokens": [
        {
          "when": "2017-09-13T06:45:53.265Z",
          "hashedToken": "CY/PWeDa3fAkl+k94+GWzCtpB5nPcVxLzzzjXs4kI3A="
        },
        {
          "when": "2017-09-16T06:06:19.741Z",
          "hashedToken": "74MQNXfsgjkItx/gpgPb29Y0MSNAvBrsnSGQmr4YGvQ="
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "username": "john",
  "emails": [
    {
      "address": "my@email.com",
      "verified": false
    }
  ],
  "isAdmin": true,
  "profile": {}
}

User List

Retrieves the user list.

URL	Requires Admin Auth	HTTP Method
/api/users	yes	GET

• Notes:
• You will need to provide the token for any of the authenticated methods.
• Only the admin user (the first user) can call the REST API.

Example Call

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer cwUZ3ZsTaE6ni2R3ppSkYd-KrDvxsLcBIkSVfOCfIkA" \
      http://localhost:3000/api/users

Result

[
  {
    "_id": "user id",
    "username": "string"
  }
]

Result example

[
  {
    "_id": "XQMZgynx9M79qTtQc",
    "username": "admin"
  },
  {
    "_id": "vy4WYj7k7NBhf3AFc",
    "username": "john"
  }
]

User Logged-in

Retrieves information about a logged-in user with his auth token.

URL	Requires Auth	HTTP Method
/api/user	yes	GET

• Notes:
• You will need to provide the token for any of the authenticated methods.

Example Call

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer a6DM_gOPRwBdynfXaGBaiiEwTiAuigR_Fj_81QmNpnf" \
      http://localhost:3000/api/user

Result example

{
  "_id": "vy4WYj7k7NBhf3AFc",
  "createdAt": "2017-09-16T05:51:30.339Z",
  "username": "john",
  "emails": [
    {
      "address": "me@mail.com",
      "verified": false
    }
  ],
  "profile": {}
}

Disable a user (the user is not allowed to login and his login tokens are purged)

URL	Requires Admin Auth	HTTP Method
/api/users/:id	yes	PUT

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer t7iYB86mXoLfP_XsMegxF41oKT7iiA9lDYiKVtXcctl" \
     -H "Content-type:application/json" \
     -X PUT \
     http://localhost:3000/api/users/ztKvBTzCqmyJ77on8 \
     -d '{ "action": "disableLogin" }'

Enable a user

URL	Requires Admin Auth	HTTP Method
/api/users/:id	yes	PUT

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer t7iYB86mXoLfP_XsMegxF41oKT7iiA9lDYiKVtXcctl" \
     -H "Content-type:application/json" \
     -X PUT \
     http://localhost:3000/api/users/ztKvBTzCqmyJ77on8 \
     -d '{ "action": "enableLogin" }'

In Wekan code

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