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Overview
User and Group APIs enable you as an Org admin to perform operations on users and groups in a SnapLogic Org.
The following user-based operations are supported:
- Creating a user
- Updating a user
- Deleting a user
- Retrieving a user's information
The following group-based operations are supported:
- Creating a group
- Fetching a group's information
- Fetching information of all groups in an Org
- Updating members' list
- Adding members in a group
- Removing members from a group
- Deleting a group
Any user can retrieve their own user data, but only Org admins can see other users and are able to make any modifications.
Authentication
The API authenticates requests using basic authentication over HTTPS. Support for more authentication methods is under consideration for future updates.
If you are using the REST Snaps to access the SnapLogic API, you will need to create a REST account with your SnapLogic credentials.
User API
- Creating a User (POST)
- Fetching Information
- Get Users by Email (GET)
- Get Users by Org (GET)
- Updating a User (PUT)
- Deleting a User (DELETE)
Create User
This is a POST-type request to create a new user. Only Org admins can use this API. The response from such a call is a document displaying details of the user.
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Syntax
Parameters
Key | Description |
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String. Specifies the user's email. | |
first_name | String. Specifies the user's first name. |
last_name | String. Specifies the user's last name. |
organization | String. Specifies the name of the organization in which to place the user. |
administrator | Boolean. Specifies whether the user is an administrator. |
allow_password_login | Boolean. Specifies whether the user can login with password. |
create_home_directory | Boolean. Specifies whether a default project is to be created for the user. The path is |
ui_access | Boolean. Specifies whether the user has access to the UI. This value is set to false of service accounts. |
email_notification | Boolean. Specifies whether the user receives a welcome email notification when an account is created. |
utility | Boolean. Creates the user as a service account. |
Example
Basic Access
The basic_access
field in the returned user document records the last time (in UTC ISO-8601 format) that a user accessed the REST API using basic authentication. When the REST API is accessed for the first time, the value might be null.
Retrieve Users by Email
Fetches user data for the specified Email.
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Parameters
Not applicable.
Examples
Retrieve Members List for an Organization
Retrieves a list of members within an Org segregated by group.
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Parameters
Not applicable.
Examples
Update a User
Updates data of the specified user.
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Syntax
Parameters
Key | Description |
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first_name | String. Specifies the user's first name. |
last_name | String. Specifies the user's last name. |
allow_password_login | Boolean. Specifies whether the user can login with a password. |
ui_access | Boolean. Specifies whether the user has access to the UI. This value is set to false of service accounts. |
created_by | String. Specifies the user who originally created the service account. This parameter enables an Org admin to change the user who originally created the service account in cases where the password recovery email for that user needs to be reset. You cannot specify the current Service Account user with this parameter.
For details, see Creating a User. |
Examples
Delete a User
Deletes a user from the database. To successfully perform this action, you need to be an admin on all of the user's orgs.
This delete action permanently removes the user from the system (unlike the SnapLogic user interface that only deletes a user from the org, but not from the system). To check if a user exists in other orgs (before deleting), use the PATCH /api/1/rest/public/groups/{organization}/{name} option on the user group of your org.
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Parameters
Not applicable.
Examples
Group API
- Creating a group
- Fetching a group's information
- Fetching information of all groups in an Org
- Updating members' list
- Adding members in a group
- Removing members from a group
- Deleting a group
Create a Group
To create a group and add members to it, you must do two API calls. Use this API to create the group. To add members to the group, make this API call again using the Members parameter.
Org and Groups
This API does not check if the Org within which you plan to add the target group and users exists. Therefore, verify first that the Org is created, then create the group first, then add the members.
Group Names
We recommend you do not insert spaces in your Group name; instead, use an underscore.
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Syntax
Parameters
Key | Description |
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organization | String. Specifies the name of the organization within which the group is to be created. |
name | String. Specifies the name of the group. This value has to be unique within the Org. |
members | List. Specifies a list of the user's email belonging to the group. |
Examples
Retrieve Groups by Organization
Retrieve an Org’s groups.
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Parameters
Not applicable.
Examples
Retrieve Group by Name
Fetches all information for the specified group.
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Parameters
Not applicable.
Examples
Update Members List
Updates the members list of the specified group in the specified Org. Each time this call is executed, the members list is overwritten.
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Parameters
Key | Description |
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members | List. Members in the group, the existing members list is overwritten. |
Examples
Add/Remove a Group
Add/remove group, and add or remove users from that group.
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Parameters
Key | Description |
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add_user | String. Specifies the email of the user to be added to the group. |
remove_user | String. Specifies the email of the user to be removed from the group. |
Only one of the above parameters can be used at a time.
Examples
Use Members to add a user
You can add an existing user to an Org by adding the user to the Members group.
Delete Group
Deletes the specified group from the specified Org.
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Parameters
Not applicable.
Examples
Using REST Snaps to Execute APIs
You can execute the following APIs using pipelines:
- User API
- Create User
- Retrieve Members list for an Organization
- Retrieve Users by email
- Update a User
- Delete a User
- Create User
- Group API
- Create a Group
- Retrieve Groups by Organization
- Retrieve Group by Name
- Update Members List
- Add/Remove a User
- Delete Group
- Create a Group