Adding New APIs For Access

Overview

Roles define the permissions of a user to perform a group of tasks. The tasks are created as API calls to do certain actions when a request for those calls is sent by the system. Access permission is grated by mapping roles with API. User assigned with the roles to provide access for the API

Pre-requisites

Before proceeding with the configuration, make sure the following pre-requisites are met -

• Knowledge of DIGIT applications is required.

• User should be aware of transactional steps in the DIGIT application.

• Knowledge of json and how to write a json is required.

• Knowledge of MDMS is required.

• Knowledge on how to create a new API.

• APIs developed on digit follow certain conventions and principles. The aim of this document is to provide some do’s and don’ts while following those principles

  • APIs path should be standardised as follows:

    • /{service}/{entity}/{version}/_create: This endpoint should be used to create the entity

    • /{service}/{entity}/{version}/_update: This endpoint should be used to edit an entity which is already existing

    • /{service}/{entity}/{version}/_search: This endpoint should be used to provide search on the entity based on certain criteria

    • /{service}/{entity}/{version}/_count: This endpoint should be provided to give a count of entities that match a given search criteria

  • Always use POST for each of the endpoints

  • Take most search parameters in POST body only

• For further more information about how new API is developed could be referred in this link API Do's and Don'ts

Key Functionalities

• Adding New APIs(actions) and Mapping Roles with that APIs provides permission to perform certain task can be restricted based on the requirement.

Deployment Details

• After mapping Roles with APIs, the MDMS service needs to be restarted to read the newly added data.

Configuration Details

APIs are added in actions-test.json and called as action. In MDMS, file actions-test.json, under ACCESSCONTROL-ACTIONS-TEST folder APIs are added.

API Sample -

{
  "tenantId": "uk",
  "moduleName": "ACCESSCONTROL-ACTIONS-TEST",
  "actions-test": [
    {
      "id": <unique and sequential to previous id>,
      "name": "rainmaker-common-propertytax",
      "url": "card",
      "displayName": "Property Tax",
      "orderNumber": 2,
      "parentModule": "",
      "enabled": true,
      "serviceCode": "",
      "code": "",
      "path": "",
      "navigationURL": "property-tax",
      "leftIcon": "action:store",
      "rightIcon": "",
      "queryParams": ""
    },
   ]
  }

APIs are added as action array element with the request url and other required details for the array "actions-test"

Each action is defined as a key-value pair:

Sr. No.	key	Data Type	Is Mandatory?	Definition/ Description
1	id	Numeric	Yes	A unique id that identifies action.
2	name	Text	No	A short narration provided to the action.
3	url	Text	Yes	It is the endpoint of API or type like url or card.
4	displayName	Text	No	It is the display name.
5	orderNumber	Numeric	Yes	A number to represent order to display in UI
6	parentModule	Text	No	Code of the service referred to as parent
7	enabled	boolean	Yes	To enable or disable display in UI.
8	serviceCode	Text	No	Code of the service to which API belongs.
9	code	Text	No
10	path	Text	No
11	navigationUrl	Text	Yes	Url to navigate in UI
12	leftIcon	Icon	No
13	rightIcon	Icon	No

Roles are added in roles.json In MDMS, file roles.json, under ACCESSCONTROL-ROLES folder roles are added. More about roles can be checked in the below link: Adding roles to System

Mapping of Roles and APIs/action is added in roleactions.json, under the folder ACCESSCONTROL-ROLEACTIONS. Sample mapping:

{
  "tenantId": "uk",
  "moduleName": "ACCESSCONTROL-ROLEACTIONS",
  "roleactions": [
    {
      "rolecode": <specific code defined in roles.json>,
      "actionid": <id of an action>,
      "actioncode": "",
      "tenantId": <state notation of tenantId>(like uk,pb etc)
    }
  ]
}

Role and API/action mapping is added as an array element under array roleactions. Each mapping is defined with key-value pairs. keys are rolecode, actionid, actioncode and tenantId.

Sr. No.

key

Is Mandatory?

Definition/ Description

Sr. No.	key	Is Mandatory?	Definition/ Description
1	rolecode	Yes	The unique code of the role which is defined in roles.json and which required mapping for API.
2	actionid	Yes	The unique id of the API/action which is defined in actions-test.json and which is required to be mapped with the role.
3	actioncode	No	The code of the API/action which is defined in actions-test.json and which is required to be mapped with the role.
4	tenantid	Yes	tenant id of state.

Reference Docs

Doc Links

Title	Link
Sample actions-test.json	https://github.com/egovernments/ukd-mdms-data/blob/SDC/data/uk/ACCESSCONTROL-ACTIONS-TEST/actions-test.json
Sample roles.json	https://github.com/egovernments/ukd-mdms-data/blob/SDC/data/uk/ACCESSCONTROL-ROLES/roles.json
Sample roleactions.json Roles APIs mapping	https://github.com/egovernments/ukd-mdms-data/blob/SDC/data/uk/ACCESSCONTROL-ROLEACTIONS/roleactions.json

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