users

GET

Retrieves all requested users.

Auth. Required:

Yes

Roles Required:

None[1]

Response Type:

Array

Request Structure

Table 261 Request Query Parameters

Name

Required

Description

id

no

Return only the user identified by this integral, unique identifier

tenant

no

Return only users belonging to the Tenant identified by tenant name

role

no

Return only users belonging to the Role identified by role name

username

no

Return only the user with this username

orderby

no

Choose the ordering of the results - must be the name of one of the fields of the objects in the response array

sortOrder

no

Changes the order of sorting. Either ascending (default or “asc”) or descending (“desc”)

limit

no

Choose the maximum number of results to return

offset

no

The number of results to skip before beginning to return results. Must use in conjunction with limit

page

no

Return the nth page of results, where “n” is the value of this parameter, pages are limit long and the first page is 1. If offset was defined, this query parameter has no effect. limit must be defined to make use of page.

#614 Request Example
GET /api/3.0/users?username=admin HTTP/1.1
Host: trafficops.infra.ciab.test
User-Agent: curl/7.47.0
Accept: */*
Cookie: mojolicious=...

Response Structure

addressLine1:

The user’s address - including street name and number

addressLine2:

An additional address field for e.g. apartment number

city:

The name of the city wherein the user resides

company:

The name of the company for which the user works

country:

The name of the country wherein the user resides

email:

The user’s email address

fullName:

The user’s full name, e.g. “John Quincy Adams”

gid:

A deprecated field only kept for legacy compatibility reasons that used to contain the UNIX group ID of the user - now it is always null

id:

An integral, unique identifier for this user

lastUpdated:

The date and time at which the user was last modified, in Traffic Ops’s Custom Date/Time Format

newUser:

A meta field with no apparent purpose that is usually null unless explicitly set during creation or modification of a user via some API endpoint

phoneNumber:

The user’s phone number

postalCode:

The postal code of the area in which the user resides

publicSshKey:

The user’s public key used for the SSH protocol

registrationSent:

If the user was created using the users/register endpoint, this will be the date and time at which the registration email was sent - otherwise it will be null

role:

The integral, unique identifier of the highest-privilege role assigned to this user

rolename:

The name of the highest-privilege role assigned to this user

stateOrProvince:

The name of the state or province where this user resides

tenant:

The name of the tenant to which this user belongs

tenantId:

The integral, unique identifier of the tenant to which this user belongs

uid:

A deprecated field only kept for legacy compatibility reasons that used to contain the UNIX user ID of the user - now it is always null

username:

The user’s username

#615 Response Example
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept, Set-Cookie, Cookie
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: POST,GET,OPTIONS,PUT,DELETE
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Content-Type: application/json
Set-Cookie: mojolicious=...; Path=/; Expires=Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:40:54 GMT; Max-Age=3600; HttpOnly
Whole-Content-Sha512: YBJLN8NbOxOvECe1RGtcwCzIPDhyhLpW56nTJHQM5WI2WUDe2mAKREpaEE72nzrfBliq1GABwJlsxq2OdhcFkw==
X-Server-Name: traffic_ops_golang/
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 01:03:53 GMT
Content-Length: 391

{ "response": [
    {
        "username": "admin",
        "registrationSent": null,
        "addressLine1": null,
        "addressLine2": null,
        "city": null,
        "company": null,
        "country": null,
        "email": null,
        "fullName": null,
        "gid": null,
        "id": 2,
        "newUser": false,
        "phoneNumber": null,
        "postalCode": null,
        "publicSshKey": null,
        "role": 1,
        "rolename": "admin",
        "stateOrProvince": null,
        "tenant": "root",
        "tenantId": 1,
        "uid": null,
        "lastUpdated": "2018-12-12 16:26:32+00"
    }
]}

POST

Creates a new user.

Auth. Required:

Yes

Roles Required:

“admin” or “operations”[1]

Response Type:

Object

Request Structure

addressLine1:

An optional field which should contain the user’s address - including street name and number

addressLine2:

An optional field which should contain an additional address field for e.g. apartment number

city:

An optional field which should contain the name of the city wherein the user resides

company:

An optional field which should contain the name of the company for which the user works

confirmLocalPasswd:

The ‘confirm’ field in a new user’s password specification - must match localPasswd

country:

An optional field which should contain the name of the country wherein the user resides

email:

The user’s email address The given email is validated (circuitously) by GitHub user asaskevich’s regular expression . Note that it can’t actually distinguish a valid, deliverable, email address but merely ensure the email is in a commonly-found format.

fullName:

The user’s full name, e.g. “John Quincy Adams”

localPasswd:

The user’s password

newUser:

An optional meta field with no apparent purpose - don’t use this

phoneNumber:

An optional field which should contain the user’s phone number

postalCode:

An optional field which should contain the user’s postal code

publicSshKey:

An optional field which should contain the user’s public encryption key used for the SSH protocol

role:

The number that corresponds to the highest permission role which will be permitted to the user

stateOrProvince:

An optional field which should contain the name of the state or province in which the user resides

tenantId:

The integral, unique identifier of the tenant to which the new user shall belong

Note

This field is optional if and only if tenancy is not enabled in Traffic Control

username:

The new user’s username

#616 Request Example
POST /api/3.0/users HTTP/1.1
Host: trafficops.infra.ciab.test
User-Agent: curl/7.47.0
Accept: */*
Cookie: mojolicious=...
Content-Length: 304
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "username": "mike",
    "addressLine1": "22 Mike Wazowski You've Got Your Life Back Lane",
    "city": "Monstropolis",
    "compary": "Monsters Inc.",
    "email": "mwazowski@minc.biz",
    "fullName": "Mike Wazowski",
    "localPasswd": "BFFsully",
    "confirmLocalPasswd": "BFFsully",
    "newUser": true,
    "role": 1,
    "tenantId": 1
}

Response Structure

addressLine1:

The user’s address - including street name and number

addressLine2:

An additional address field for e.g. apartment number

city:

The name of the city wherein the user resides

company:

The name of the company for which the user works

country:

The name of the country wherein the user resides

email:

The user’s email address

fullName:

The user’s full name, e.g. “John Quincy Adams”

gid:

A deprecated field only kept for legacy compatibility reasons that used to contain the UNIX group ID of the user - now it is always null

id:

An integral, unique identifier for this user

lastUpdated:

The date and time at which the user was last modified, in Traffic Ops’s Custom Date/Time Format

newUser:

A meta field with no apparent purpose that is usually null unless explicitly set during creation or modification of a user via some API endpoint

phoneNumber:

The user’s phone number

postalCode:

The postal code of the area in which the user resides

publicSshKey:

The user’s public key used for the SSH protocol

registrationSent:

If the user was created using the users/register endpoint, this will be the date and time at which the registration email was sent - otherwise it will be null

role:

The integral, unique identifier of the highest-privilege role assigned to this user

rolename:

The name of the highest-privilege role assigned to this user

stateOrProvince:

The name of the state or province where this user resides

tenant:

The name of the tenant to which this user belongs

tenantId:

The integral, unique identifier of the tenant to which this user belongs

uid:

A deprecated field only kept for legacy compatibility reasons that used to contain the UNIX user ID of the user - now it is always null

username:

The user’s username

#617 Response Example
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: POST,GET,OPTIONS,PUT,DELETE
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 02:28:27 GMT
X-Server-Name: traffic_ops_golang/
Set-Cookie: mojolicious=...; Path=/; Expires=Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:40:54 GMT; Max-Age=3600; HttpOnly
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Whole-Content-Sha512: vDqbaMvgeeoIds1czqvIWlyDG8WLnCCJdF14Ub05nsE+oJOakkyeZ8odf4d0Zjtqpk01hoVo14H2tjuWPdqwgw==
Content-Length: 520

{ "alerts": [
    {
        "level": "success",
        "text": "User creation was successful."
    }
],
"response": {
    "registrationSent": null,
    "email": "mwazowski@minc.biz",
    "tenantId": 1,
    "city": "Monstropolis",
    "tenant": "root",
    "id": 8,
    "company": null,
    "rolename": "admin",
    "phoneNumber": null,
    "country": null,
    "fullName": "Mike Wazowski",
    "publicSshKey": null,
    "uid": null,
    "stateOrProvince": null,
    "lastUpdated": null,
    "username": "mike",
    "newUser": false,
    "addressLine2": null,
    "role": 1,
    "addressLine1": "22 Mike Wazowski You've Got Your Life Back Lane",
    "postalCode": null,
    "gid": null
}}