9.2.7. Create User From JSON¶

Get a user object, add ‘ API TEST’ to the name of the user object, delete any pre-existing user with the new name, then create a new user object with the new name

9.2.7.1. Step 1 - Authenticate to the SOAP API via /auth¶

URL: https://10.0.1.240:443/auth
HTTP Method: GET
Elapsed Time: 0:00:00.028765
Step 1 Request Body
Step 1 Response Body
Request Headers:

{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "password": "VGFuaXVtMjAxNSE=",
  "username": "QWRtaW5pc3RyYXRvcg=="
}

Response Headers:

{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-length": "134",
  "content-type": "text/plain; charset=us-ascii"
}

9.2.7.2. Step 2 - Get the server version via /info.json¶

URL: https://10.0.1.240:443/info.json
HTTP Method: GET
Elapsed Time: 0:00:00.049281
Step 2 Request Body
Step 2 Response Body
Request Headers:

{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "1-613-6752ac971c0b9286acdb297f4f8ba7e537cc970d5042fddcc5e1eaa32134d7e95588980d0dc72fbecb1784c462c55f45f60dd1a3ef1fd1c88112e88c7552e8be"
}

Response Headers:

{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-length": "19291",
  "content-type": "application/json"
}

9.2.7.3. Step 3 - Issue a GetObject to find an object¶

URL: https://10.0.1.240:443/soap
HTTP Method: POST
Elapsed Time: 0:00:00.005239
Step 3 Request Body
Step 3 Response Body
Request Headers:

{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "482",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "1-613-6752ac971c0b9286acdb297f4f8ba7e537cc970d5042fddcc5e1eaa32134d7e95588980d0dc72fbecb1784c462c55f45f60dd1a3ef1fd1c88112e88c7552e8be"
}

Response Headers:

{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "transfer-encoding": "chunked"
}

9.2.7.4. Step 4 - Issue a GetObject to find the object to be deleted¶

URL: https://10.0.1.240:443/soap
HTTP Method: POST
Elapsed Time: 0:00:00.003519
Step 4 Request Body
Step 4 Response Body
Request Headers:

{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "468",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "1-613-6752ac971c0b9286acdb297f4f8ba7e537cc970d5042fddcc5e1eaa32134d7e95588980d0dc72fbecb1784c462c55f45f60dd1a3ef1fd1c88112e88c7552e8be"
}

Response Headers:

{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "transfer-encoding": "chunked"
}

9.2.7.5. Step 5 - Issue a DeleteObject to delete an object¶

URL: https://10.0.1.240:443/soap
HTTP Method: POST
Elapsed Time: 0:00:00.090627
Step 5 Request Body
Step 5 Response Body
Request Headers:

{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "2728",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "1-613-6752ac971c0b9286acdb297f4f8ba7e537cc970d5042fddcc5e1eaa32134d7e95588980d0dc72fbecb1784c462c55f45f60dd1a3ef1fd1c88112e88c7552e8be"
}

Response Headers:

{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "transfer-encoding": "chunked"
}

9.2.7.6. Step 6 - Issue an AddObject to add an object¶

URL: https://10.0.1.240:443/soap
HTTP Method: POST
Elapsed Time: 0:00:00.011987
Step 6 Request Body
Step 6 Response Body
Request Headers:

{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "2768",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "1-613-6752ac971c0b9286acdb297f4f8ba7e537cc970d5042fddcc5e1eaa32134d7e95588980d0dc72fbecb1784c462c55f45f60dd1a3ef1fd1c88112e88c7552e8be"
}

Response Headers:

{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "transfer-encoding": "chunked"
}

9.2.7.7. Step 7 - Issue a GetObject on the recently added object in order to get the full object¶

URL: https://10.0.1.240:443/soap
HTTP Method: POST
Elapsed Time: 0:00:00.004758
Step 7 Request Body
Step 7 Response Body
Request Headers:

{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "2779",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "1-613-6752ac971c0b9286acdb297f4f8ba7e537cc970d5042fddcc5e1eaa32134d7e95588980d0dc72fbecb1784c462c55f45f60dd1a3ef1fd1c88112e88c7552e8be"
}

Response Headers:

{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "transfer-encoding": "chunked"
}

Footnotes

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