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2 labels:
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3 summary: 'HTTP access to prosody’s storage mechanism'
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4 ...
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6 Introduction
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7 ------------
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9 This module gives HTTP access to prosody’s storage mechanism. It uses
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10 normal HTTP verbs and [Basic HTTP
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11 authentication](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2617), so you could call
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12 it RESTful if you like buzzwords.
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14 Syntax
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15 ------
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17 To Fetch data, issue a normal GET request
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19 GET /data[/<host>/<user>]/<store>[/<format>] HTTP/1.1
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20 Authorization: <base64(authzid:password)>
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22 OR
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24 PUT|POST /data[/<host>/<user>]/<store> HTTP/1.1
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25 Content-Type: text/x-lua | application/json
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27 <data>
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29 These map to `datamanager.method(user, host, store, data)`, where choice
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30 of `method` and its parameters are explained below.
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32 ### Verbs
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34 Verb Meaning datamanager method
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35 -------- ------------------------------- ---------------------------
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36 `GET` Just fetch data `load()` or `list_load()`
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37 `PUT` Replace all data in the store `store()`
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38 `POST` Append item to the store `list_append()`
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40 Note: In a `GET` request, if `load()` returns `nil`, `list_load()` will
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41 be tried instead.
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43 ### Fields
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45 Field Description Default
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46 ---------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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47 `host` Which virtual host to access Required. If not set in the path, the domain-part of the authzid is used.
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48 `user` Which users storage to access Required. If not set in the path, uses the node part of the authzid.
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49 `store` Which storage to access. Required.
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50 `format` Which format to serialize to. `json` and `lua` are supported. When uploading data, the `Content-Type` header is used. `json`
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51 `data` The actual data to upload in a `PUT` or `POST` request. `nil`
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53 Note: Only admins can change data for users other than themselves.
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55 ### Example usage
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57 Here follows some example usage using `curl`.
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59 Get your account details:
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61 curl http://prosody.local:5280/data/accounts -u user@example.com:secr1t
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62 {"password":"secr1t"}
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64 Set someones account details:
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66 curl -X PUT http://prosody.local:5280/data/example.com/user/accounts -u admin@host:r00tp4ssw0rd --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-binary '{"password":"changeme"}'
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68 ### Client library
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70 - https://metacpan.org/module/Prosody::Mod::Data::Access
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72 ### TODO
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74 - Use `Accept` header.