a code example for a simple workflow  #26

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1. dirkpetersen commented on Aug 18, 2020

   

   dirkpetersen

   on Aug 18, 2020

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   So it seems I can do all the api gets and I can also create a folder

   username = 'bobo'
   api = smartfile.BasicClient(apikey,password)
   ret=api.post('/path/oper/mkdir/', username)
   

   but when I want to create a user it does not work, these seem to be the required fields

   myuser={'username': username, 'name': username, 'email': 'test@test.org', 'password': 'badman123', 'role': 'User'}
   api.post('/user', myuser)
   
   
   ~/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/smartfile/__init__.py in _do_request(self, request, url, **kwargs)
        56         else:
        57             if response.status_code >= 400:
   ---> 58                 raise ResponseError(response)
        59         # Try to return the response in the most useful fashion given it's
        60         # type.
   
   ResponseError: Response 404: Error: b'{"detail":"Not found."}'
   
   

   when I try the post example at https://app.smartfile.com/api/2/user/ I get

   {
       "detail": "CSRF Failed: CSRF token missing or incorrect."
   }
   
2. jalohse commented on Aug 18, 2020

   

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   You need to use the ** operator to unpack your myuser dictionary into kwargs. So:
   api.post('/user', **myuser)
3. dirkpetersen commented on Aug 19, 2020

   

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   Awesome, that worked. Thank you so much Jessica !!
4. dirkpetersen commented on Aug 19, 2020

   

   dirkpetersen

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   Actually one more question about assigning a home directory to a user at creation time

   username='newuser23'
   myuser={'username': username, 'name': username, 'email': 'test@test.org', 'password': 'badman123', 'role': 'User', 'home': username}
   api.post('/user', **myuser)
   

   so the only thing I added is 'home', but I get this:

   ~/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/smartfile/__init__.py in _request(self, method, endpoint, id, **kwargs)
       108             trys += 1
       109             try:
   --> 110                 return self._do_request(request, url, **kwargs)
       111             except ResponseError as e:
       112                 if self.throttle_wait and e.status_code == 503:
   
   ~/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/smartfile/__init__.py in _do_request(self, *args, **kwargs)
       205         # Add the token authentication
       206         kwargs['auth'] = (self.key, self.password)
   --> 207         return super(BasicClient, self)._do_request(*args, **kwargs)
       208 
       209 
   
   ~/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/smartfile/__init__.py in _do_request(self, request, url, **kwargs)
        56         else:
        57             if response.status_code >= 400:
   ---> 58                 raise ResponseError(response)
        59         # Try to return the response in the most useful fashion given it's
        60         # type.
   
   ResponseError: Response 500: Error: b'{"detail":"An error has occurred and our team has been notified. If you need assistance, contact your administrator."}'
   
   
5. dirkpetersen commented on Aug 19, 2020

   

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   OK, when I set 'home': '/'+username instead of 'home': username the error went away. However, the home directory was not changed after that and was still set to '/' . Not sure what I am doing wrong
6. dirkpetersen commented on Aug 19, 2020

   

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   my last step was trying to give permissions to the new folder for the new user :

   I tried

   access = {'user': username, 'path': '/'+folder, 'read': True, 'list': True, 'remove': True, 'write': True}
   ret = api.post('/access/user', **access)
   

   or

   access = {'acl': {'read': True,'write': True, 'remove': True, 'list': True},
                     'recursive': True,
                     'path': '/'+folder,
                      'user': username}
   ret = api.post('/access/user', **access)
   

   but in both cases I got this error:

     File "app/bin/share-sftp", line 45, in <module>
       ret = api.post('/access/user', **access)
     File "/app/lib/python3.6.9/lib/python3.6/site-packages/smartfile/__init__.py", line 131, in post
       return self._request('post', endpoint, id=id, data=kwargs)
     File "/app/lib/python3.6.9/lib/python3.6/site-packages/smartfile/__init__.py", line 110, in _request
       return self._do_request(request, url, **kwargs)
     File "/app/lib/python3.6.9/lib/python3.6/site-packages/smartfile/__init__.py", line 207, in _do_request
       return super(BasicClient, self)._do_request(*args, **kwargs)
     File "/app/lib/python3.6.9/lib/python3.6/site-packages/smartfile/__init__.py", line 58, in _do_request
       raise ResponseError(response)
      smartfile.errors.ResponseError: Response 500: Error: b'{"detail":"An error has occurred and our team has been notified. If you 
      need assistance, contact your administrator."}'
   

   then finally I tried :

   access = 'user=dirk11&path=%2Fdirk11&read=true&list=true&remove=true&write=true'
   ret = api.post('/access/user?'+access)
   

   and I did not get any error message but the permission change was not saved / applied

   part of my challenge is perhaps that when try to use the api.post option here https://app.smartfile.com/api/2/access/user/ I get

   

   and if I try to access https://app.smartfile.com/api/2/access/path/

   I am getting

   

   I tried googling for "api.post(" examples and found 173 hits but I was not able to find one example that does a permission change
7. jalohse commented on Aug 19, 2020

   

   jalohse

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   For the home folder itself, it cannot be set when first creating a user. The user's filesystem has not been created yet, so we cannot set a home folder. That call will need to be made after the user has been created to /user/username after the folder is created in their account. If your account has admin view, you can set the home folder through the start_folder_path parameter.

   I am assuming your account is what we call a NextGen account. In NextGen, /access isn't used, as each user has their own filesystem, and thus would have all permissions. NextGen utilizes shares, where one user can share one of their folders with another user and set permissions there.
8. jalohse commented on Aug 19, 2020

   

   jalohse

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   An easier way to view how these actions should be made is to inspect the network calls the SmartFile UI uses and model your calls after that.