Hi @Lucian Hontau ,
Yes, there is a way to programmatically create developer accounts in the developer portal.
The Apigee Edge developer portal is built on Drupal, which is an open-source CMS framework. There are many many add-ons for drupal, packaged as "modules", which are contributed by the community. a pair of these modules allows you to expose Drupal capabilities via REST services; they are: Services, and REST Server. This means you could do the basic Create, read, Update, Delete operations on any entity managed by Drupal, including users, blog posts, forum topics, taxonomy terms, and so on.
The standard release of the Apigee Edge developer portal includes the modules necessary to do this, but by default these modules are not configured . (And sometimes they are not even enabled ). They're in the box, just not properly "turned on" if you know what I mean.
Here's how to turn them on. It takes about 3 minutes.
- Login to the dev portal as administrator
- click the modules menu item on the top horizontal navbar
- When the modules list page appears, type "services" in the filter box
- You should see a list of modules, at least one of which is called "Services".
Insure that module is turned on. If it is on (green/grey), no problem. If it is not on, click the button to turn it on.
- back to the filter box, type "rest"
- in the list you should see a service called "REST Server". Again, make sure it is on.
- If you have changed anything you need to click "Save configuration" from this page. This button will appear in the lower left hand side of the page. You may have to scroll down to see it.
- After saving, again in the top navbar, click Structure, then Services.
- On the services page, click the "+Add" button
- Specify "rest" for the "machine readable name"
Select REST as the Server
Specify "rest" for the "Path to endpoint"
tick the box for "Session Authentication"
Click "Save"
- At that point the page will refresh and you will see an entry labeled "rest" in the list of services.
On the right-hand-side, click the link that says "edit resources".
- on the resulting page, tick the boxes for node, system, taxonomy_term, taxonomy_vocabulary, and user. Actually you just asked for a programmatic way to create users, and the "user" resource is the only one you would need. But these other resources are also good to expose via REST.
- click "Save"
- Done
You can now invoke REST APIs on Drupal that will create users, create / update posts, etc.
The next thing you will ask is, "OK, now that there is a REST endpoint enabled for Drupal, what's the REST API call to make, to create a user?" This means we can now return to your original question!
The answer to that is a bit longer. The reason is that there are some pre-requisites for authentication. But the good news is that I have explained all of this in a set of blog posts elsewhere - start HERE.
The short summary is: Your app must login, then use the Cookie and CSRF token in the login response in subsequent API calls.
Login:
curl -i -X POST -H content-type:application/json \
-H Accept:application/json \
http://example.com/rest/user/login \
-d '{
"username" : "YOURUSERNAME",
"password" : "YOURPASSWORD"
}'
The response is like this:
{
"sessid": "ShBy6ue5TTabcdefg",
"session_name": "SESS02caabc123",
"token": "w98sdb9udjiskdjs",
"user": { .... }
} Subsequent calls must pass wither the Cookie header, or the Cookie header as well as the X-CSRF-Token header. The former if it is a query, the latter if it is an write (create, update, or delete).
The X-CSRF-Token header must take the value that is provided for the "token" property. The cookie must take a value like "{session_name}={sessid}". In this case you would need:
Cookie:SESS02caabc123=ShBy6ue5TTabcdefg
X-CSRF-Token:w98sdb9udjiskdjs
Finally, to create a user:
curl -i -X POST \
-H Cookie:SESS02caabc123=ShBy6ue5TTabcdefg \
-H X-CSRF-Token:w98sdb9udjiskdjs \
-H accept:application/json \
-H content-type:application/json \
http://example.com/rest/user -d '{
"name" : "TestUser1",
"mail" : "Dchiesa+Testuser1@apigee.com",
"pass": "secret123",
"timezone": "America/Los_Angeles",
"field_first_name": {
"und": [{ "value": "Dino"}]
},
"field_last_name": {
"und": [{ "value": "Chiesa"}]
}
}'Get more details at the linked blog posts.
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