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From here, you can carry out all the main administrative tasks:
 
From here, you can carry out all the main administrative tasks:

Revision as of 09:53, 23 June 2011

Web Services Configuration

All Web Services configuration hangs off the plugin administration page http://your.mahara.local.net/artefact/webservice/pluginconfig.php

The main page:

Web Services main configuration page


From here, you can carry out all the main administrative tasks:

  • Globally activate/deactivate web services
  • activate/deactivate individual protocols (REST, SOAP, XML-RPC)
  • Create Services Groups of Functions that can be accessed
  • Generate access tokens, and allocate users, and services groups
  • Grant access to users for simple authentication access, and allocate service groups
  • look up API descriptions for functions

Global activation

Globally activate or deactivate all web service access for when you need to shut off access completely

Global activation/deactivation of all web services

Activating Protocols

Individual protocols can be activated or deactivated. Once activated, the protocol is available to all configured functions/users/tokens.

Available protocols are:

  • SOAP
  • REST (a basic HTTP and forms POST based interface)
  • XML-RPC
activate and deactivate inidividual protocols


Service Groups

Service groups are the unit of allocation of access to a user (simple auth) or user token. They are a collection of functions.

Web Services service groups


Give a service group a name, and then specify what functions are to be included. You must also decide what form of authentication can access this service group - web service token, or user simple auth (user and password).

edit service group


Function API Descriptions

From the Service Group editing view, there is a link to each API function that will take you to a description of the functions API - input/output parameters, and error handling.

Web Services Group Delete API description

Token Based Access Control

Simple User Authentication Access Control