`users`

`GET`

Retrieves all requested users.

Auth. Required: Yes
Roles Required: None1
Response Type: Array

Request Structure

Table 257 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 n^th 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`.

#606 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

#607 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"
    }
]}

1(1,2): While no roles are required, this endpoint does respect tenancy. A user will only be able to see, create, delete or modify other users belonging to the same tenant, or its descendants.

`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

#608 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

#609 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
}}

users

GET

Request Structure

Response Structure

POST

Request Structure

Response Structure

`users`

`GET`

`POST`