POST /manage/v2/protected-collections

Summary

This resource address creates a new protected collection in the security database.

URL Parameters
format The format of the posted data. Can be either html, json, or xml (default). This value overrides the Accept header if both are present.
Request Headers
Accept The expected MIME type of the request body. 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. Depending upon the value of the format parameter or Accept header, one of application/xml, application/json, or text/html.
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, one of application/xml, application/json, or text/html.
Location If the request causes a restart, a Location header is included in the reponse. The header contains a path with which to construct a URL to usable to test when the restart has completed.

Response

Upon success, MarkLogic Server returns status code 201 (Created). If the protected collection already exists or if the payload is malformed, 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 the security and manage-admin roles.

Usage Notes

The structure of the data in the request body is shown here. The collection and permissions properties are required.

Note: The properties described here are for XML payloads. In general they are the same for JSON, with the exception that, in JSON, permissions is expressed in singular form. For example, in JSON, permissions is instead permission and the format is: "permission":[{"role-name":"name", "capability":"cap"}].

collection

The collection uri.

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

The Role name (unique)

capability

The action/task permitted by a permission

Example


  cat collection.json
  ==>
   {
     "collection": "http://example.org",
     "permission": [
       {
         "role-name": "view-admin",
         "capability": "read"
       }
     ]
   }
  
  curl -X POST  --anyauth -u admin:admin --header "Content-Type:application/json" \
  -d @collection.json http://localhost:8002/manage/v2/protected-collections

  ==>  Creates a collection with the URI "http://example.org" in the Security database. 
    
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