users

GET

Retrieves all requested users.

Auth. Required

Yes

Roles Required

None1

Permissions Required

USER:READ

Response Type

Array

Request Structure

Table 436 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.

#1071 Request Example
GET /api/4.0/users?username=mike HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: python-requests/2.25.1
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept: */*
Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: mojolicious=...

Response Structure

addressLine1

The user’s address - including street name and number

addressLine2

An additional address field for e.g. apartment number

changeLogCount

The number of change log entries created by the user

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

Deprecated since version 4.0: This field is serves no known purpose, and shouldn’t be used for anything so it can be removed in the future.

id

An integral, unique identifier for this user

lastAuthenticated

The date and time at which the user was last authenticated, in RFC 3339

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 name of the 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

ucdn

The name of the uCDN to which the user belongs

New in version 4.0.

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

Deprecated since version 4.0: This field is serves no known purpose, and shouldn’t be used for anything so it can be removed in the future.

username

The user’s username

#1072 Response Example
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Type: application/json
Permissions-Policy: interest-cohort=()
Set-Cookie: mojolicious=...; Path=/; Expires=Fri, 13 May 2022 23:16:14 GMT; Max-Age=3600; HttpOnly
Vary: Accept-Encoding
X-Server-Name: traffic_ops_golang/
Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 22:16:14 GMT
Content-Length: 350

{ "response": [
    {
        "addressLine1": "22 Mike Wazowski You've Got Your Life Back Lane",
        "addressLine2": null,
        "changeLogCount": 0,
        "city": "Monstropolis",
        "company": null,
        "country": null,
        "email": "mwazowski@minc.biz",
        "fullName": "Mike Wazowski",
        "gid": null,
        "id": 3,
        "lastAuthenticated": null,
        "lastUpdated": "2022-05-13T22:13:54.605052Z",
        "newUser": true,
        "phoneNumber": null,
        "postalCode": null,
        "publicSshKey": null,
        "registrationSent": null,
        "role": "admin",
        "stateOrProvince": null,
        "tenant": "root",
        "tenantId": 1,
        "ucdn": "",
        "uid": null,
        "username": "mike"
    }
]}

POST

Creates a new user.

Auth. Required

Yes

Roles Required

“admin” or “operations”1

Permissions Required

USER:CREATE, USER:READ

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

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”

gid

A deprecated field only kept for legacy compatibility reasons that used to contain the UNIX group ID of the user

Deprecated since version 4.0: This field is serves no known purpose, and shouldn’t be used for anything so it can be removed in the future.

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 name 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

ucdn

The name of the uCDN to which the user belongs

New in version 4.0.

uid

A deprecated field only kept for legacy compatibility reasons that used to contain the UNIX user ID of the user

Deprecated since version 4.0: This field is serves no known purpose, and shouldn’t be used for anything so it can be removed in the future.

username

The new user’s username

#1073 Request Example
POST /api/4.0/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": "admin",
    "tenantId": 1
}

Response Structure

addressLine1

The user’s address - including street name and number

addressLine2

An additional address field for e.g. apartment number

changeLogCount

The number of change log entries created by the user

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

Deprecated since version 4.0: This field is serves no known purpose, and shouldn’t be used for anything so it can be removed in the future.

id

An integral, unique identifier for this user

lastAuthenticated

The date and time at which the user was last authenticated, in RFC 3339

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 name of the 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

ucdn

The name of the uCDN to which the user belongs

New in version 4.0.

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

Deprecated since version 4.0: This field is serves no known purpose, and shouldn’t be used for anything so it can be removed in the future.

username

The user’s username

#1074 Response Example
HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Type: application/json
Location: /api/4.0/users?id=3
Permissions-Policy: interest-cohort=()
Set-Cookie: mojolicious=...; Path=/; Expires=Fri, 13 May 2022 23:13:54 GMT; Max-Age=3600; HttpOnly
Vary: Accept-Encoding
X-Server-Name: traffic_ops_golang/
Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 22:13:54 GMT
Content-Length: 382

{ "alerts": [
    {
        "text": "user was created.",
        "level": "success"
    }
],
"response": {
    "addressLine1": "22 Mike Wazowski You've Got Your Life Back Lane",
    "addressLine2": null,
    "changeLogCount": null,
    "city": "Monstropolis",
    "company": null,
    "country": null,
    "email": "mwazowski@minc.biz",
    "fullName": "Mike Wazowski",
    "gid": null,
    "id": 3,
    "lastAuthenticated": null,
    "lastUpdated": "2022-05-13T22:13:54.605052Z",
    "newUser": true,
    "phoneNumber": null,
    "postalCode": null,
    "publicSshKey": null,
    "registrationSent": null,
    "role": "admin",
    "stateOrProvince": null,
    "tenant": "root",
    "tenantId": 1,
    "ucdn": "",
    "uid": null,
    "username": "mike"
}}
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.