Roles REST API

The Roles endpoint allows creating and managing roles that can be mapped to a permission set.

Note: The API version supported by ActivID Appliance 8.5 is 3.0.

To use the version-specific parameters/attributes, you must add api-version=N to the query parameter.

Previous versions of the API are also supported with the corresponding functionality.

Method Details

HTTPS Method	Entity Action	Request URI	Description
GET	Read	/scim/{tenant}/v2/Roles	Get the list of all roles
GET	Read	/scim/{tenant}/v2/Roles/{uid}	Get a role
POST	Create	/scim/{tenant}/v2/Roles	Create a role
DELETE	Delete	/scim/{tenant}/v2/Roles/{uid}	Delete a role

Required Permissions

Function	Required Permissions
GET	Read role
GET ALL	Read reference data
CREATE	Create role Modify user roles
DELETE	Delete role

Get a List of Roles

[GET] /Roles

This endpoint will return all existing roles within the tenant.

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Sample Request URI

[GET] /scim/{tenant}/v2/Roles/RL_AUDITV

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Sample Response

{
    "schemas": ["urn:ietf:params:scim:api:messages:2.0:ListResponse"],
    "totalResults": 13,
    "resources": [
        {
            "schemas": ["urn:hid:scim:api:idp:2.0:Role"],
            "id": "RL_AUDITV",
            "meta": {
                "resourceType": "Role",
                "location": "https://[base-server-url]/scim/tenant/v2/Policy/Roles/RL_AUDITV",
                "version": "1"
            },
            "name": "Audit Viewer"
        },
        {
            "schemas": ["urn:hid:scim:api:idp:2.0:Role"],
            "id": "RL_CFGMGR",
            "meta": {
                "resourceType": "Role",
                "location": "https://[base-server-url]/scim/tenant/v2/Policy/Roles/RL_CFGMGR",
                "version": "1"
            },
            "name": "Configuration Manager"
        },
    <--truncated output-->
}

Create a Role

[POST] /Roles

Accept: application/scim+json

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Sample Request URI

[POST] /scim/{tenant}/v2/Roles

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Sample Request

{
    "id": "NEWROLE",
    "name": "New Role",
    "description": "my new role"
}

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Sample Response

{
    "schemas": ["urn:hid:scim:api:idp:2.0:Role"],
    "id": "NEWROLE",
    "meta": {
        "resourceType": "Role",
        "location": "https://[base-server-url]/scim/tenant/v2/Roles/NEWROLE",
        "version": "1"
    },
    "name": "New Role",
    "description": "my new role"
}

Get a Role

[GET] /Roles/{uid}

Where {uid} is the Role Code.

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Sample Request URI

[GET] /scim/{tenant}/v2/Roles/RL_CONFIG

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Sample Response

{
    "schemas": ["urn:hid:scim:api:idp:2.0:Role"],
    "id": "RL_CONFIG",
    "meta": {
        "resourceType": "Role",
        "location": "https://[base-server-url]/scim/tenant/v2/Roles/RL_CONFIG",
        "version": "1"
    },
    "name": "Configuration",
    "description": "Allows configuring User Repositories, OOB Delivery Gateways, Channels, and Authorization Profiles."
}

Delete a Role

All the delete endpoints follow the same standard pattern and can be reached through the following URL pattern:

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Delete entity

DELETE https://[base-server-url]/scim/{tenant}/v2/ENTITY_TYPE/{id}

Accept: application/scim+json

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Sample Response

HTTP/1.1 204 No content