# Disclaimer

This page tries to be as up to date as possible. If you see something wrong here, feel free to update the page and help other people like you, that greatly depends on our APIs. If you don't feel comfortable doing this kind of changes, please contact us by creating an [issue](https://github.com/wekan/wekan/issues/new).

# User Register
| URL | Requires Auth | HTTP Method |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| `/users/register` | `no` | `POST` |

## Payload

| Argument | Example | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| `username` | `myusername` | Required | Your username |
| `password` | `my$up3erP@ssw0rd` | Required | Your password |
| `email` | `my@email.com` | Required | Your email |

* Notes:
 * **You will need to provide the `token` for any of the authenticated methods.**

## Example Call - As Form Data
```bash
curl http://localhost:3000/users/register \
     -d "username=myusername&password=mypassword&email=my@email.com"
```


## Example Call - As JSON
```bash
curl -H "Content-type:application/json" \
      http://localhost:3000/users/register \
      -d '{ "username": "myusername", "password": "mypassword", "email": "my@email.com" }'
```


## Result
```json
{
  "id": "user id",
  "token": "string",
  "tokenExpires": "ISO encoded date string"
}
```

## Result example
```json
{
  "id": "XQMZgynx9M79qTtQc",
  "token": "ExMp2s9ML1JNp_l11sIfINPT3wykZ1SsVwg-cnxKdc8",
  "tokenExpires": "2017-12-15T00:47:26.303Z"
}
```

# User Create
| URL | Requires Admin Auth | HTTP Method |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| `/api/users` | `yes` | `POST` |

## Payload

| Argument | Example | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| `username` | `myusername` | Required | Your username |
| `password` | `my$up3erP@ssw0rd` | Required | Your password |
| `email` | `my@email.com` | Required | Your email |

* Notes:
 * **You will need to provide the `token` for any of the authenticated methods.**

## Example Call - As Form Data
```bash
curl  -H "Authorization: Bearer a6DM_gOPRwBdynfXaGBaiiEwTiAuigR_Fj_81QmNpnf" \
      -X POST \
      http://localhost:3000/api/users \
      -d "username=myusername&password=mypassword&email=my@email.com"
```

## Example Call - As JSON
```bash
curl  -H "Authorization: Bearer a6DM_gOPRwBdynfXaGBaiiEwTiAuigR_Fj_81QmNpnf" \
      -H "Content-type:application/json" \
      -X POST \
      http://localhost:3000/api/users \
      -d '{ "username": "myusername", "password": "mypassword", "email": "my@email.com" }'
```

## Example of all steps of create user

1) Login

```
curl http://example.com/users/login \
     -d "username=YOUR-USERNAME-HERE&password=YOUR-PASSWORD-HERE"
```

As response you get your id and token:

```
"id":"YOUR-ID-HERE","token":"YOUR-TOKEN-HERE","tokenExpires":"2017-12-23T21:07:10.395Z"}
```

2) Create user. Works both when serf-register enabled and disabled.

```
curl  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR-TOKEN-HERE" \
      -H "Content-type:application/json" \
      -X POST \
      http://example.com/api/users \
      -d '{ "username": "tester", "password": "tester", "email": "tester@example.com", "fromAdmin": "true" }'
```

As reply you get new user's id.

```
{"id":"NEW-USER-ID-HERE"}
```

3) You can get user details with your new user's id:

```
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR-TOKEN-HERE" \
      http://example.com/api/users/NEW-USER-ID-HERE
```

## Result

Returns the id of the created user.


```json
{
  "_id": "user id"
}
```

## Result example
```json
{
  "_id": "EnhMbvxh65Hr7YvtG"
}
```

# User Delete

> IMPORTANT : Should not be used as long as [this bug](https://github.com/wekan/wekan/issues/1289) exists. 

| URL | Requires Admin Auth | HTTP Method |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| `/api/users/:id` | `yes` | `DELETE` |

## Parameters
| Argument | Example | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| `id` | `BsNr28znDkG8aeo7W` | Required | The id of the user to delete. |

## Example Call
```bash
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer a6DM_gOPRwBdynfXaGBaiiEwTiAuigR_Fj_81QmNpnf" \
      -X DELETE \
      http://localhost:3000/api/users/EnhMbvxh65Hr7YvtG    
```

## Example Result

Returns the id of the deleted user.

```json
{
  "_id": "EnhMbvxh65Hr7YvtG"
}
```

# User Information
Retrieves information about a user.

| URL | Requires Admin Auth | HTTP Method |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| `/api/users/:id` | `yes` | `GET` |

* Notes:
 * **You will need to provide the `token` for any of the authenticated methods.**
 * **Only the admin user (the first user) can call the REST API.**

## Example Call
```bash
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer a6DM_gOPRwBdynfXaGBaiiEwTiAuigR_Fj_81QmNpnf" \
      http://localhost:3000/api/users/XQMZgynx9M79qTtQc
```

## Result example
```json
{
  "_id": "XQMZgynx9M79qTtQc",
  "createdAt": "2017-09-13T06:45:53.127Z",
  "services": {
    "password": {
      "bcrypt": "$2a$10$CRZrpT4x.VpG2FdJxR3rN.9m0NbQb0OPsSPBDAZukggxrskMtWA8."
    },
    "email": {
      "verificationTokens": [
        {
          "token": "8rzwpq_So2PVYHVSfrcc5f5QZnuV2wEtu7QRQGwOJx8",
          "address": "my@email.com",
          "when": "2017-09-13T06:45:53.157Z"
        }
      ]
    },
    "resume": {
      "loginTokens": [
        {
          "when": "2017-09-13T06:45:53.265Z",
          "hashedToken": "CY/PWeDa3fAkl+k94+GWzCtpB5nPcVxLzzzjXs4kI3A="
        },
        {
          "when": "2017-09-16T06:06:19.741Z",
          "hashedToken": "74MQNXfsgjkItx/gpgPb29Y0MSNAvBrsnSGQmr4YGvQ="
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "username": "john",
  "emails": [
    {
      "address": "my@email.com",
      "verified": false
    }
  ],
  "isAdmin": true,
  "profile": {}
}
```
# User List
Retrieves the user list.

| URL | Requires Admin Auth | HTTP Method |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| `/api/users` | `yes` | `GET` |

* Notes:
 * **You will need to provide the `token` for any of the authenticated methods.**
 * **Only the admin user (the first user) can call the REST API.**

## Example Call
```bash
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer cwUZ3ZsTaE6ni2R3ppSkYd-KrDvxsLcBIkSVfOCfIkA" \
      http://localhost:3000/api/users
```

## Result
```json
[
  {
    "_id": "user id",
    "username": "string"
  }
]
```

## Result example
```json
[
  {
    "_id": "XQMZgynx9M79qTtQc",
    "username": "admin"
  },
  {
    "_id": "vy4WYj7k7NBhf3AFc",
    "username": "john"
  }
]
```

# User Logged-in
Retrieves information about a logged-in user with his auth token.

| URL | Requires Auth | HTTP Method |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| `/api/user` | `yes` | `GET` |

* Notes:
 * **You will need to provide the `token` for any of the authenticated methods.**

## Example Call
```bash
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer a6DM_gOPRwBdynfXaGBaiiEwTiAuigR_Fj_81QmNpnf" \
      http://localhost:3000/api/user
```

## Result example
```json
{
  "_id": "vy4WYj7k7NBhf3AFc",
  "createdAt": "2017-09-16T05:51:30.339Z",
  "username": "john",
  "emails": [
    {
      "address": "me@mail.com",
      "verified": false
    }
  ],
  "profile": {}
}
```

# Disable a user (the user is not allowed to login and his login tokens are purged)

| URL | Requires Admin Auth | HTTP Method |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| `/api/users/:id` | `yes` | `PUT` |

```shell
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer t7iYB86mXoLfP_XsMegxF41oKT7iiA9lDYiKVtXcctl" \
     -H "Content-type:application/json" \
     -X PUT \
     http://localhost:3000/api/users/ztKvBTzCqmyJ77on8 \
     -d '{ "action": "disableLogin" }'
```

# Enable a user

| URL | Requires Admin Auth | HTTP Method |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| `/api/users/:id` | `yes` | `PUT` |

```shell
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer t7iYB86mXoLfP_XsMegxF41oKT7iiA9lDYiKVtXcctl" \
     -H "Content-type:application/json" \
     -X PUT \
     http://localhost:3000/api/users/ztKvBTzCqmyJ77on8 \
     -d '{ "action": "enableLogin" }'
```

# In Wekan code

If you believe that code is the best documentation, be our guest: [models/cards.js](https://github.com/wekan/wekan/blob/main/models/users.js "User API code")