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  • 1.  ISVA Rest API -- pdamin user command oddities

    Posted Fri November 19, 2021 06:32 AM
    Hi,

    I'm a bit confused with the response "from" (in this example) the pdadmin user rest API call

    I'm posting the following JSON command to my config instance https://myISVAHost:port/isam/pdadmin using
    {"admin_id":"sec_master", "admin_pwd":"xxxxxxxxxxxx", "commands":["user list-dn *demo 55"]}
    I read the response content to a byte buffer and create a "UTF-8" string from the buffer and this is what i get:

    {"result":"cmd> user list-dn *demo 55\nuid=demoeid,cn=users,...DC=SE\nuid=demoeao,cn=users,...DC=SE\nuid=demoeao2,cn=users,...DC=SE\nuid=demontmedia,cn=users,...DC=SE\nuid=demoncc,cn=users,...DC=SE\nuid=demoicn,cn=users,...DC=SE\nuid=demoalecta,cn=users,...DC=SE\nuid=demo,cn=users,...DC=SE\nuid=hrmpoldemo,cn=users,...DC=SE\nuid=demoms,cn=users,...dc=se"}

    The '\' is actually the hex character '5C', an ASCII representation of the non-printable "\"??

    If I bite that bullet and
    replaceAll("\\x5cn", "\n") in the string, the result looks better;

    {"result":"cmd> user list-dn *demo 55
    uid=demoeid,cn=users,...DC=SE
    uid=demoeao,cn=users,...DC=SE
    uid=demoeao2,cn=users,...DC=SE
    uid=demontmedia,cn=users,...DC=SE
    uid=demoncc,cn=users,...DC=SE
    uid=demoicn,cn=users,...DC=SE
    uid=demoalecta,cn=users,...DC=SE
    uid=demo,cn=users,...DC=SE
    uid=hrmpoldemo,cn=users,...DC=SE
    uid=demoms,cn=users,...dc=se"}

    BUT -- is it really JSON??
    I would expect something like below :-)

    {"result":"cmd> user list-dn *demo 55",
    "users":["uid=demoeid,cn=users,...DC=SE,
    uid=demoeao,cn=users,...DC=SE,
    uid=demoeao2,cn=users,...DC=SE,
    uid=demontmedia,cn=users,...DC=SE,
    uid=demoncc,cn=users,...DC=SE,
    uid=demoicn,cn=users,...DC=SE,
    uid=demoalecta,cn=users,...DC=SE,
    uid=demo,cn=users,...DC=SE,
    uid=hrmpoldemo,cn=users,...DC=SE,
    uid=demoms,cn=users,...dc=se"]}

    PS. I'm using Java 8 with Apache HTTP client5

    Rgds & have a nice weekend...

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    Anders Domeij
    CGI Sweden AB
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  • 2.  RE: ISVA Rest API -- pdamin user command oddities

    Posted Fri November 19, 2021 04:07 PM
    Anders,
     
    The output of the pdadmin command is text, within a json payload.  So, even though the Web service response is JSON, the contents of the 'result' field, is just the textual output from running the pdadmin command.
     
    I hope that this explains things.
     
    Scott A. Exton
    Senior Software Engineer
    Chief Programmer - IBM Security Verify Access
    IBM Master Inventor

     
     
     



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  • 3.  RE: ISVA Rest API -- pdamin user command oddities

    Posted Mon November 22, 2021 02:58 AM
    Hi Scott,

    Thanks for the quick reply.

    Rgds

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    Anders Domeij
    CGI Sweden AB
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