POST /api/businesses/{BusinessID}/resources

Adds a scope on the platform.

Authorization Roles/Permissions: Must be logged in. Must have Add permission for the resource. Site Admin or Business Admin.

This topic includes the following sections:

HTTP Method

POST

URL

https://{hostname}/api/businesses/{BusinessID}/resources

Sample Request

The example below shows a request to add a scope.

Sample Request URL

https://{hostname}/api/businesses/tenantbusiness.acmepaymentscorp/resources

Sample request headers

POST /api/businesses/tenantbusiness.acmepaymentscorp/resources HTTP/1.1
Host: {hostname}
Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
Content-Type: application/json
X-Csrf-Token_acmepaymentscorp: TokenID%3D8ed70a13-8469-11e8-b37a-b155e4eabeb8%2CexpirationTime%3D153...

Sample request body

{
  "ResourceID":"",
  "Name":"Bronze access",
  "ShortDescription":"Bronze access",
  "LongDescription":"Bronze access",
  "Visibility":"Public",
  "SandboxAnonymousAccessAllowed":"false",
  "ProductionAnonymousAccessAllowed":"false",
  "ResourcePath":"",
  "OAuthGrantDefaultResource":"true",
  "OAuthGrantUserAuthorizationRequired":"true",
  "ParentResourceID":"",
  "BusinessID":"tenantbusiness.acmepaymentscorp"
}

Request Headers

For general information on request header values, refer to HTTP Request Headers.

Header	Description
Accept	application/json, application/xml, application/vnd.soa.v71+json, application/vnd.soa.v71+xml, application/vnd.soa.v72+json, application/vnd.soa.v72+xml, application/vnd.soa.v80+json, application/vnd.soa.v80+xml, application/vnd.soa.v81+json, application/vnd.soa.v81+xml
Content-Type	Any one of the following media types is valid for the request Content-Type: application/json or application/xml application/vnd.soa.v71+json or application/vnd.soa.v71+xml application/vnd.soa.v72+json or application/vnd.soa.v72+xml application/vnd.soa.v80+json or application/vnd.soa.v80+xml application/vnd.soa.v81+json or application/vnd.soa.v81+xml
Cookie	AtmoAuthToken_{fedmemberid}={cookie value, which usually starts with TokenID}—The platform cookie. This is the Akana API Platform authorization token, and must be sent with every API request that requires login. For more information and an example, see Session cookies.
X-Csrf-Token_{fedmemberID}	The CSRF prevention header; may or may not be required, depending on platform settings. See CSRF Prevention on the Platform. By default, the CSRF header is not required for GET operations and is required for all others, with a few exceptions relating to user login.

Request Parameters

Parameter	Parm Type	Data Type	Required	Description
BusinessID	Path	string	Required	The unique ID for a specific business organization on the platform.
Resource	Body	Resource	Required	Contains information about a resource, such as a scope, defined for a business organization. The unique ID is the Name field.

Response

If successful, this operation returns HTTP status code 200, with information about the scope that was added.

Sample Response

The sample response below shows successful completion of this operation.

Sample response headers: application/json

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2016 20:22:18 GMT
Content-Type: application/json

Sample response body: application/json

{
  "ResourceID" : "74e58bdd-0c5a-47f9-b141-cbaa83e64293.acmepaymentscorp",
  "Name" : "Access to READ operations",
  "ShortDescription" : "Access to READ operations",
  "LongDescription" : "Access to READ operations",
  "Visibility" : "Public",
  "SandboxAnonymousAccessAllowed" : false,
  "ProductionAnonymousAccessAllowed" : false,
  "ResourcePath" : "",
  "OAuthGrantDefaultResource" : true,
  "OAuthGrantUserAuthorizationRequired" : true,
  "BusinessID" : "tenantbusiness.acmepaymentscorp"
}

Response Headers

For general information on response header values, refer to HTTP Response Headers.

Header	Description
Content-Type	application/json, application/xml, application/vnd.soa.v71+json, application/vnd.soa.v71+xml, application/vnd.soa.v72+json, application/vnd.soa.v72+xml, application/vnd.soa.v80+json, application/vnd.soa.v80+xml, application/vnd.soa.v81+json, application/vnd.soa.v81+xml

Response Body

Name	Type	Description
Resource	Resource	Contains information about a resource, such as a scope, defined for a business organization.

Error Codes/Messages

If the call is unsuccessful an error code/message is returned. One or more examples of possible errors for this operation are shown below.

Item	Value
401	Unauthorized. For example, you would get this response if you didn't include the custom X-Csrf-Token_{fedmemberID} header in the request, when it was required by the platform settings; or if you included an invalid or expired value for this header. You would also get this response for any operation that requires login (almost all) if the login cookie was missing.
500	An error occurred processing the call.

More information about Akana API Platform API error messages.

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