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MarkLogic Server 11.0 Product Documentation
PUT /manage/v2/users/{id|name}/properties

Summary

This resource address can be used to update the properties for the specified user.

URL Parameters
format The format of the posted data. Can be either json (default) or xml. This value overrides the Accept header if both are present.
Request Headers
Accept The expected MIME type of the response. If the format parameter is present, it takes precedence over the Accept header.
Content-type The MIME type of the data in the request body, either application/xml or application/json.
Response Headers
Content-type The MIME type of the data in the response body. Depending upon the value of the format parameter or Accept header, either application/xml or application/json.

Response

Upon success, MarkLogic Server returns status code 204 (No Content). If the payload is malformed or the database does not exist, a status code of 400 (Bad Request) is returned. A status code of 401 (Unauthorized) is returned if the user does not have the necessary privileges.

Required Privileges

This operation requires one of the following:

Usage Notes

The properties that can be modified are listed here. If user-name is specified, password must also be specified. In 10.0-7, the property queries was added.

Note: The properties described here are for XML payloads. In general they are the same for JSON, with the exception that, in JSON, roles, external-names, permissions, collections and queries are expressed in singular form. For example, in JSON, permissions is instead permission and the format is: "permission":[{"role-name":"name", "capability":"cap"}]. Please pay special attention that the singular form of queries is capability-query.

user-name

User/login name (unique)

description

An object's description.

password

Password.

external-names

The external names specifications.

This is a complex structure with the following children:

external-name

The name used to match external group name.

roles

The roles assigned. The roles assigned to the user.

This is a complex structure with the following children:

role

A role identifier (unique key).

permissions

The default set of permissions used in document creation.

This is a complex structure with the following children:

permission

Permission representation.

This is a complex structure with the following children:

role-name

A role name.

capability

The action/task permitted by a permission

collections

The default set of collections used in document creation.

This is a complex structure with the following children:

collection

The collection uri.

queries

This is a complex structure with the following children:

capability-query

This is a complex structure with the following children:

capability

The action/task permitted by a permission

query

This is a complex structure with the following children:

cts:query

Example


curl -X PUT  --anyauth -u admin:admin -H "Content-Type:application/json" \
-d '{"description":"joe cool"}' http://localhost:8002/manage/v2/users/Joe/properties
 
==>  Changes the description for the user, "joe," to "joe cool."

Example


// JSON payload example for creating a role with queries.

$ cat payload.json

{
  "user-name": "Vanessa",
  "password": "strongpassword",
  "description": "Software development engineer",
  "capability-query": [{
    "capability": "node-update", 
    "query": {
      "elementQuery": {
        "element": ["metadata"], 
        "query": {
          "elementWordQuery": {
            "element": ["region"], 
            "text": ["NA"], 
            "options": ["lang=en"]
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }]
}

curl -X PUT -i --digest -u admin:admin -H "Content-Type:application/json" \
-d @payload.json http://localhost:8002/manage/v2/users/Vanessa/properties

==> Changes the user queries of a user, named "Vanessa, from capability "read" to
capability "node-update".

Example


(: XML payload for creating a user with queries :)

$ cat payload.xml

<user-properties xmlns="http://marklogic.com/manage/user/properties">
  <user-name>Vanessa</user-name>
  <password>strongpassword</password>
  <description>Software development engineer</description>
  <queries>
    <capability-query>
      <capability>node-update</capability>
      <query>
        <cts:element-query xmlns:cts="http://marklogic.com/cts">
          <cts:element>metadata</cts:element>
          <cts:element-word-query>
            <cts:element>region</cts:element>
            <cts:text xml:lang="en">NA</cts:text>
          </cts:element-word-query>
        </cts:element-query>
      </query>
    </capability-query>
  </queries>
</user-properties>

curl -X PUT -i --digest -u admin:admin -H "Content-Type:application/xml" \
-d @payload.xml http://localhost:8002/manage/v2/users

==> Changes the user queries of a user, named "Vanessa, from capability "read" to
capability "node-update".

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