[Freeipa-users] Documentation on the JSON format for ipa-web?

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On Wed, 02 Dec 2015, Marc Boorshtein wrote:
>Rob & Martin,
>
>Thanks.  This is a great resource.  Is there a way to generate sample
>JSONs for each command?  For instance, when I make a call to
>user_search, I use the following:
>
>String lookupjson =
>"{\"method\":\"batch\",\"params\":[[{\"method\":\"user_show\",\"params\":[[\""
>+ userID + "\"],{\"all\":true,\"rights\":true}]},{\"method\":\"pwpolicy_show\",\"params\":[[],{\"user\":\""
>+ userID + "\",\"all\":true,\"rights\":true}]},{\"method\":\"krbtpolicy_show\",\"params\":[[\""
>+ userID + "\"],{\"all\":true,\"rights\":true}]}],{\"version\":\"2.112\"}]}";
>
>This was figured out by reverse engineering the calls from the browser
>to IPA Web.  Looking at the API browser its clear that using batch
>here is probably overkill.  Based on the api browser I think I can do:
>
>{
>  "method":"user_show",
> "params":[
>    ["myuser"],
>    {
>      "all":true,
>      "rights":true
>    }
> ]
>}
>
>Is that accurate?  For the result object, is there something documented?
just use 'ipa -vv user-show ...' to see formatted JSON.

Did you read my article?
https://vda.li/en/posts/2015/05/28/talking-to-freeipa-api-with-sessions/


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/ Alexander Bokovoy