CA Identity portal Service Account APIs

Products

• CA Identity Manager
• CA Identity Governance
• CA Identity Portal
• CA Identity Suite

Issue/Introduction

Do we have a list of API methods for Identity Portal?

 

Environment

Release : 14.3

Component : CA IDENTITY SUITE (VIRTUAL APPLIANCE)

Resolution

REST Call Name	updateRequestInfo
Description	Update an existing request with more information, the update can be performed to various elements in the request.
URL	<Identity_Portal_url>/sigma/rest/protected/request/updateRequestInfo
HTTP Method	POST
Request body content type	Application/json
Request body content Sample	{   [{   "backendRequestId": "144233-54657f4a3-abc4566-4552a",   "requestId": 41,   "requestTargetPermissionId": 33,   "requestPermissionId": 27,   "infoToAppend": "add this text to all of the above elements",   "protectedValue": false   },   {   "backendRequestId": "144233-54657add-f4a3-abc4566",   "requestId": 43,   "requestTargetPermissionId": 35,   "requestPermissionId": 27,   "infoToAppend": "add another text to all of the above elements",   "protectedValue": false   }]   }
Request body content     Sample explanation   ( Important: At least one of the first 4 parameter is necessary )	backendRequestId	Specifies the backend task session id. If this parameter is sent, the information is linked to the element linked to the task session.
	requestId	When used, information is linked to the top level of the request.
	requestTargetPermissionId	Specifies the target permission instance in the request. The id of it can be viewed in the basket. When using this parameter, the information is linked to all the associated permissions.
	requestPermissionId	Specifies the permission instance in the request, the id of it can be viewed in the basket. When using this parameter, the information is linked to permissions.
	infoToAppend	Specifies the information to add to the request.
	protectedValue	Boolean to encrypt data in the database.
Success return status	Http OK(200)

 

The API is only exposed to a service account which is configured in the 

General Configuration

 Tab. 

To log in, you must perform form authentication to 

Identity Portal

. The following code is an example to use java to perform login to 

Identity Portal

 using org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.

private void login

(

String username

,

 String password

)

 

throws

 HttpException

,

 IOException

,

 LoginException 

{

 

log

.

debug

(

"Logging into Sigma"

);

 

String loginUrl 

=

 

this

.

sigmaUrl 

+

 

this

.

loginSuffix

;

 

log

.

debug

(

"Login URL is: " 

+

 loginUrl

);

 

PostMethod postMethod 

=

 

new

 PostMethod

(

loginUrl

);

 

NameValuePair

[]

 postData 

=

 

new

 NameValuePair

[

2

];

 

postData

[

0

]

 

=

 

new

 NameValuePair

(

"j_username"

,

 username

);

 

postData

[

1

]

 

=

 

new

 NameValuePair

(

"j_password"

,

 password

);

 

postMethod

.

addParameters

(

postData

);

 

int loginResult 

=

 

this

.

httpclient

.

executeMethod

(

postMethod

);

 

log

.

debug

(

"Login post returned Http Status: [" 

+

 loginResult 

+

 "]"

);

 

if

 

(

loginResult 

!=

 302

)

 

{

 

log

.

error

(

"Error logging into Sigma with username: [" 

+

 username 

+

 "]"

);

 

throw

 

new

 LoginException

(

"Error Logging into Sigma: " 

+

 postMethod

.

getResponseBodyAsString

());

 

  }

 

Header locationHeader 

=

 postMethod

.

getResponseHeader

(

"Location"

);

 

if

 

(!

locationHeader

.

getValue

().

substring

(

locationHeader

.

getValue

().

lastIndexOf

(

"/"

)).

startsWith

(

"/app"

))

 

{

 

log

.

error

(

"Error logging into Sigma with username: [" 

+

 username 

+

 "]"

);

 

throw

 

new

 LoginException

(

"Error Logging into Sigma"

);

 

 }

 

postMethod

.

releaseConnection

();

 

log

.

debug

(

"Login successful"

);

 

}

After the HTTP client is logged in, you can use it to POST method to the APIs exposed.