Orgs

Overview

The API exposes a representation of OCL orgs. users are members of orgs. orgs may “own” collections and sources in the same way that users may. However, orgs do not actually perform any edits since they cannot authenticate; instead, users which are members with appropriate permissions may create new sources and collections on behalf of an organization.

Versioning of organizations

  • Version history is not stored for orgs - edits are in-place and only standard audit information is maintained (”created_on”, “created_by”, “updated_on”, “updated_by”)

Get a single organization

  • Get a single organization - private organizations can only be retrieved with appropriate privileges

GET /orgs/:org/

Response

  • Status: 200 OK

{
    "type": "Organization",
    "uuid": "8d94f280-c2cc-11de-8d13-0010c6dffd0f",
    "id": "My-Organization",

    "name": "My Organization",
    "company": "Company Name",
    "website": "http://myorganization.com/",
    "location": "Boston, MA, USA",
    "public_access": "View",

    "extras": { "extra-meta-data": "my-value" },

    "url": "/orgs/My-Organization/",
    "members_url": "/orgs/My-Organization/members/",
    "sources_url": "/orgs/My-Organization/sources/",
    "collections_url": "/orgs/My-Organization/collections/",

    "members": 2,
    "public_collections": 1,
    "public_sources": 1,

    "created_on": "2008-01-14T04:33:35Z",
    "created_by": "johndoe",
    "updated_on": "2008-02-18T09:10:16Z",
    "updated_by": "johndoe"
}

List organizations

  • List all public organizations

GET /orgs/

  • List all organizations for a user

GET /users/:user/orgs/

  • List all public and private organizations for the authenticated user

GET /user/orgs/

  • Parameters

    • q (optional) - search criteria (across these fields: “name” and “company”)

    • verbose (optional) - returns detailed results (same as getting a single organization)

    • sortAsc/sortDesc (optional) - sort the results (ascending or descending) on one of the following attributes: “bestMatch” (default), “lastUpdated”, “name”

Response

  • Status: 200 OK

[
    {
        "id": "My-Organization",
        "name": "My Organization",
        "url": "/orgs/My-Organization/"
    }
]

Create new organization

  • Creates a new organization with the currently authenticated user as the owner and as a member

POST /orgs/

  • Input

    • id (required) string

    • name (required) string

    • company (optional) string

    • website (optional) string

    • location (optional) string

    • extras (optional) json dictionary

    • public_access (optional) string “View” (default), “Edit”, or “None”

{
    "id": "My-New-Org",
    "name": "My New Org",
    "company": "My Company Name",
    "website": "http://mycompany.com/",
    "location": "Paris, France",
    "extras": { "extra-meta-data": "my-value" },
    "public_access": "View"
}

Response

  • Status: 201 Created

  • Returns the full, non-public JSON representation of the new organization object

Update organization

  • Update metadata for an organization. Authenticated user must be a member of the organization.

POST /orgs/:org/

  • Note that modifying “name” does not change the value of “id”

  • Input

    • name (optional) string

    • company (optional) string

    • website (optional) string

    • location (optional) string

    • extras (optional) json dictionary

    • public_access (optional) string “View” (default), “Edit”, or “None”

{
    "name": "My New Organization Name",
    "company": "My Company Name",
    "website": "http://mycompany.com/",
    "location": "Mumbai, India",
    "extras": { "extra-meta-data": "my-value" }
}

Response

  • Status: 200 OK

  • Returns the updated version of the organization - same as GET /orgs/:org/

Deactivate an organization

  • To be implemented (https://github.com/OpenConceptLab/ocl_issues/issues/67)

Delete an organization

  • Authenticated user must be a superuser in order to delete an organization

DELETE /orgs/:org/

Response

  • Status: 204 No Content

List members of an organization

  • Get the list of members for an organization - Organization must be public or the authenticated user is also a member

GET /orgs/:org/members/

Response

  • Status: 200 OK

[
    {
        "username": "johndoe",
        "name": "John Doe",
        "url": "/users/johndoe/"
    }
]

Get organization member status

  • Get whether a specific user is a member of an organization - authenticated user must be a member of the organization to do this

GET /orgs/:org/members/:user/

Response if user is a member

  • Status: 204 No Content

Response if user is not a member

  • Status: 404 Not Found

Add new member to organization

  • Add a new member to an organization - in order to add a new member, the authenticated user must be an administrative member of the organization

PUT /orgs/:org/members/:user/

Response

  • Status: 204 No Content

Remove member from organization

  • Authenticated user must be an administrative member of the organization in order to remove an organization member

DELETE /orgs/:org/members/:user/

  • Note that this does not delete the user account, it only removes them from the organization

Response

  • Status: 204 No Content - Member successfully removed

  • Status: 404 Not found OR 409 Conflict - User is not a member of the organization

  • Status: 404 Not Found - User does not exist

  • Status: 401 Unauthorized - No authentication credentials provided

  • Status: 403 Forbidden - Authentication credentials provided, but user does not have permission to remove a member

Search and Filter Behavior

  • Text Search (e.g. q=criteria) - NOTE: Plus-sign (+) indicates relative relevancy weight of the term

    • org.name (++++), org.company (+)

  • Facets

    • ??

  • Filters

    • company - user.company

    • location - user.location

  • Sort

    • bestMatch (default) - see search fields above

    • name (Asc/Desc) - org.name

    • lastUpdated (Asc/Desc) - org.last_updated