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# Galene's administrative API
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Galene provides an HTTP-based API that can be used to create groups and
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users. For example, in order to create a group, a client may do
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PUT /galene-api/0/.groups/groupname/
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Content-Type: application/json
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If-None-Match: *
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The `If-None-Match` header avoids overwriting an existing group.
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In order to edit a group definition, a client first does
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GET /galene-api/0/.groups/groupname/
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This yields the group definition and an entity tag (in the ETag header).
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The client then modifies the group defintion, and does
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PUT /galene-api/0/.groups/groupname/
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If-Match: "abcd"
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where "abcd" is the entity tag returned by the GET request. If the group
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definition has changed in the meantime, the entity tag will no longer be
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valid, and the server will fail the update, which avoids losing an update
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in the case of a concurrent modification.
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## Endpoints
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The API is located under `/galene-api/0/`. The `/0/` is a version number,
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and will be incremented if we ever find out that the current API cannot be
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extended in a backwards compatible manner.
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### Statistics
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/galene-api/0/.stats
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Provides a number of statistics about the running server, in JSON. The
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exact format is undocumented, and may change between versions. The only
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allowed methods are HEAD and GET.
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### List of groups
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/galene-api/0/.groups/
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Returns a list of groups, as plain text, one per line. The only allowed
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methods are HEAD and GET.
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### Group definition
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/galene-api/0/.groups/groupname
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Contains a "sanitised" group definition in JSON format, analogous to the
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on-disk format but without any user definitions or cryptographic keys.
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Allowed methods are HEAD, GET, PUT and DELETE. The only accepted
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content-type is `application/json`.
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### List of users
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/galene-api/0/.groups/groupname/.users/
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Returns a list of users, as plain text, one per line. The only allowed
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methods are HEAD and GET.
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### User definition
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/galene-api/0/.groups/groupname/.users/username
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Contains a "sanitised" user definition (without any passwords), a JSON
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object with a single field `permissions`. Allowed methods are HEAD, GET,
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PUT and DELETE. The only accepted content-type is `application/json`.
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### Passwords
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/galene-api/0/.groups/groupname/.users/username/.password
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Contains the password of a given user. The PUT method takes a full
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password definition, identical to what can appear in the `"password"`
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field of the on-disk format, while the POST method takes a string which
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will be hashed on the server. Allowed methods are PUT, POST and DELETE.
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Accepted content-types are `application/json` for PUT and `text/plain` for
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POST.
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