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API

1. RESTful API

Access Control offers increased control and flexibility through the support of a RESTful (Representational State Transfer) API for accessing a set of resources through a fixed set of operations.

1.1 Prerequisites

Provided examples use Curl on the command line, but many other delivery mechanisms can achieve the same thing against a Restful API will.

1.2 Authentication

Provided examples show the use of admin:password credentials for clarity. Clearly you shouldn't use this approach for production. It can be beneficial to create a suitably permissioned user exclusively for API duties.

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Type Action
POST to create a resource on the server
GET to retrieve a resource from the server
PUT to modify the state of a resource
DELETE to remove a resource

1.3 Online documentation

You can review a copy of the bundled API documenation. This documentation is taken straight from a live installation. Given that the documentation is automatically generated, it frequently links to local files and resources that will not be available here.