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Endpoints require authentication with a username and API key. This can be submitted as GET parameters (eg ?username=demo&api_key=e6282adabed84e39ffe451f8bf6ff1a67c1fc9f2
) or as a header (eg Authorization: ApiKey demo:e6282adabed84e39ffe451f8bf6ff1a67c1fc9f2
)
Endpoints return JSON. If there's an error, they will return a 4xx or 5xx HTTP error code and a JSON body {'error': True, 'message': 'message describing error'}
Transfer
Start Transfer
- URL:
/api/transfer/start_transfer/
- Verbs: POST
- Start a transfer.
- Parameters:
- name: Name of new transfer
- type: Type of the new transfer. One of: standard, unzipped bag, zipped bag, dspace
- accession: Accession number of new transfer
- paths[]: List of base64-encoded "<location_uuid>:<relative_path>" to be copied into the new transfer. Location UUIDs should be associated with this pipeline, and relative path should be relative to the location (TODO confirm relative vs absolute path). E.g. NWJiYWJjMTMtMTIyNy00MWE3LWIwY2QtZjJhYzM1MjkxZTdmOi92YWdyYW50L3NhbXBsZWRhdGEvQ1NWbWV0YWRhdGE= (decoded: 5bbabc13-1227-41a7-b0cd-f2ac35291e7f:/vagrant/sampledata/CSVmetadata)
- row_ids[]: ID of the associated TransferMetadataSet for disk image ingest. Can be provided as [""]
- Fields:
- message: "Copy successful."
- path: Path the transfer was copied to on start?
List Unapproved Transfers
- URL:
/api/transfer/unapproved
- Verbs: GET
- Returns a list of transfers waiting for approval.
- Fields:
- message: "Fetched unapproved transfers successfully."
- results: List of dicts with keys:
- type: Transfer type. One of: standard, unzipped bag, zipped bag, dspace
- directory: Directory the transfer is in currently
- uuid: UUID of the transfer
Approve Transfer
- URL:
/api/transfer/approve
- Verbs: POST
- Approve a transfer waiting to be started.
- Parameters:
- type: Type of the transfer to approved. One of: standard, unzipped bag, zipped bag, dspace.
- directory: Name of the directory for the transfer to approve
- Fields:
- message: "Approval successful."
- uuid: UUID of the approved transfer
Status
- URL:
/transfer/status/<transfer UUID>/
- Verbs: GET
- Returns the status of the transfer.
- Fields:
- status: One of FAILED, REJECTED, USER_INPUT, COMPLETE or PROCESSING
- name: Name of the transfer, e.g. "imgs"
- sip_uuid: If status is COMPLETE, this field will exist with either the UUID of the SIP or 'BACKLOG'
- microservice: Name of the current microservice
- directory: Name of the directory, e.g. "imgs-52dd0c01-e803-423a-be5f-b592b5d5d61c"
- path: Full path to the transfer, e.g. "/var/archivematica/sharedDirectory/watchedDirectories/SIPCreation/completedTransfers/imgs-52dd0c01-e803-423a-be5f-b592b5d5d61c/"
- message: "Fetched status for <transfer UUID> successfully."
- type: "transfer"
- uuid: UUID of the transfer, e.g. "52dd0c01-e803-423a-be5f-b592b5d5d61c"
Hide
- URL:
/api/transfer/<transfer UUID>/delete/
- Verbs: DELETE
- Hide a transfer
- Fields:
- removed: True
Completed
- URL:
/api/transfer/completed/
- Verbs: GET
- Return list of Transfers that are completed
- Fields:
- message: "Fetched completed transfers successfully."
- results: List of UUIDs of completed Transfers
- Added in Archivematica 1.6
Start Reingest
- URL:
/api/transfer/reingest
- Verbs: POST
- Start a full reingest.
- Parameters:
- name: Name of the AIP. The AIP should also be found at
%sharedDirectory%/tmp/<name>
- uuid: UUID of the AIP to reingest
- name: Name of the AIP. The AIP should also be found at
- Fields:
- message: "Approval successful."
- reingest_uuid: UUID of the reingested transfer
Ingest
Status
- URL:
/ingest/status/<unit UUID>/
- Verbs: GET
- Returns the status of the SIP
- Fields:
- status: One of FAILED, REJECTED, USER_INPUT, COMPLETE or PROCESSING
- name: Name of the SIP, e.g. "imgs"
- microservice: Name of the current microservice
- directory: Name of the directory, e.g. "imgs-52dd0c01-e803-423a-be5f-b592b5d5d61c"
- path: Full path to the transfer, e.g. "/var/archivematica/sharedDirectory/currentlyProcessing/imgs-52dd0c01-e803-423a-be5f-b592b5d5d61c/"
- message: "Fetched status for <SIP UUID> successfully."
- type: "SIP"
- uuid: UUID of the SIP, e.g. "52dd0c01-e803-423a-be5f-b592b5d5d61c"
Hide
- URL:
/api/ingest/<SIP UUID>/delete/
- Verbs: DELETE
- Hide a SIP
- Fields:
- removed: True
List SIPS Waiting for User Input
- URL:
/api/ingest/waiting
- Verbs: GET
- Returns a list of SIPs waiting for user input.
- Fields:
- message: "Fetched units successfully."
- results: List of dicts with keys:
- sip_directory: Directory the SIP is in currently
- sip_uuid: UUID of the SIP
- sip_name: Name of the SIP
- microservice: Name of the current microservice
Completed
- URL:
/api/ingest/completed/
- Verbs: GET
- Return list of SIPs that are completed
- Fields:
- message: "Fetched completed ingests successfully."
- results: List of UUIDs of completed SIPs
- Added in Archivematica 1.6
Reingest
- URL:
/api/ingest/reingest
- Verbs: POST
- Start a partial or metadata-only reingest.
- Parameters:
- name: Name of the AIP. The AIP should also be found at
%sharedDirectory%/tmp/<name>
- uuid: UUID of the AIP to reingest
- name: Name of the AIP. The AIP should also be found at
- Fields:
- message: "Approval successful."
- reingest_uuid: UUID of the reingested SIP
Copy Metadata
- URL:
/api/ingest/copy_metadata_files/
- Verbs: POST
- Add metadata files to a SIP.
- Parameters:
- sip_uuid: UUID of the SIP to put files in
- source_paths[]: List of files to be copied, base64 encoded, in the format 'source_location_uuid:full_path'
- Fields:
- error: False
- message: "Files added successfully."
Administration
Levels of Description
- URL:
/api/administration/dips/atom/levels/
- Verbs: GET?
- Returns a JSON-encoded set of the configured levels of description.
- Returns: List of AtoM Levels of description with key 'UUID' and value 'name of level of description'.
Fetch Levels of Description
- URL:
/api/administration/dips/atom/fetch_levels/
- Verbs: GET?
- Fetch all levels of description from an AtoM database, replacing any previously existing.
- Returns: Updated list of AtoM Levels of description with key 'UUID' and value 'name of level of description'.
Other
Path Metadata
- URL:
/api/filesystem/metadata/
- Verbs: GET, POST
- Fetch (GET) or update (POST) metadata for a path (currently only level of description).
- Parameters:
- path: Arranged path to get metadata on
- GET fields:
- level_of_description: Level of description
- POST fields:
- success: True
Processing Configuration
- URL:
/api/processing-configuration/<name>
- Verbs: GET?
- Return processing configuration with <name>
- Content type: text/xml