GoHarbor User API

The user API from GoHarbor — 8 operation(s) for user.

Operations 11

GET /users List users #
POST /users Create a local user #
GET /users/current Get current user info #
GET /users/search Search users by username #
GET /users/{user_id} Get a user's profile #
PUT /users/{user_id} Update user's profile #
DELETE /users/{user_id} Mark a registered user as be removed #
PUT /users/{user_id}/sysadmin Update a registered user to change to be an administrator of Harbor #
PUT /users/{user_id}/password Change the password on a user that already exists #
GET /users/current/permissions Get current user permissions #
PUT /users/{user_id}/cli_secret Set CLI secret for a user #

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OpenAPI Specification

goharbor-user-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Harbor User API
  description: These APIs provide services for manipulating Harbor project.
  version: '2.0'
servers:
- url: http://localhost/api/v2.0
- url: https://localhost/api/v2.0
security:
- basic: []
- {}
tags:
- name: User
paths:
  /users:
    get:
      summary: List users
      description: List users registered in Harbor. Requires system admin privileges.
      tags:
      - User
      operationId: listUsers
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/requestId'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/query'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/sort'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/page'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/pageSize'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: return the list of users.
          headers:
            X-Total-Count:
              description: The total count of users
              schema:
                type: integer
            Link:
              description: Link to previous page and next page
              schema:
                type: string
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/UserResp'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/401'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/403'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/500'
    post:
      summary: Create a local user
      description: This API can be used only when the authentication mode is for local DB. When self registration is disabled.
      tags:
      - User
      operationId: createUser
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/requestId'
      responses:
        '201':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/201'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/400'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/401'
        '403':
          description: When self-registration is disabled, only admins can create users. When self-registration is enabled, user creation via API is not permitted (UI only).
          headers:
            X-Request-Id:
              description: The ID of the corresponding request for the response
              schema:
                type: string
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Errors'
        '409':
          description: Username already exists. A user with the same username already exists in Harbor.
          headers:
            X-Request-Id:
              description: The ID of the corresponding request for the response
              schema:
                type: string
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Errors'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/500'
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/UserCreationReq'
        description: The new user
        required: true
  /users/current:
    get:
      summary: Get current user info
      description: Get the profile of the currently authenticated user. Returns 412 if the caller is authenticated via a non-local context such as a robot account.
      tags:
      - User
      operationId: getCurrentUserInfo
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/requestId'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Get current user information successfully.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/UserResp'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/401'
        '412':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/412'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/500'
  /users/search:
    get:
      summary: Search users by username
      description: This endpoint is to search the users by username. It's open for all authenticated requests.
      tags:
      - User
      operationId: searchUsers
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/requestId'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/page'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/pageSize'
      - name: username
        in: query
        required: true
        description: Username for filtering results.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Search users by username successfully.
          headers:
            X-Total-Count:
              description: The total count of available items
              schema:
                type: integer
            Link:
              description: Link to previous page and next page
              schema:
                type: string
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/UserSearchRespItem'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/401'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/500'
  /users/{user_id}:
    get:
      summary: Get a user's profile
      description: Get profile information for the specified user. System admins can access any user; regular users can only access their own profile.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/requestId'
      - name: user_id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int
      tags:
      - User
      operationId: getUser
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Get user's info successfully.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/UserResp'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/401'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/403'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/404'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/500'
    put:
      summary: Update user's profile
      description: Update profile fields (email, realname, comment) of a user. Regular users can only update their own profile.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/requestId'
      - name: user_id
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Registered user ID
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int
      tags:
      - User
      operationId: updateUserProfile
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/200'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/400'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/401'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/403'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/404'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/500'
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/UserProfile'
        description: Only email, realname and comment can be modified.
        required: true
    delete:
      summary: Mark a registered user as be removed
      description: This endpoint let administrator of Harbor mark a registered user as removed.It actually won't be deleted from DB.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/requestId'
      - name: user_id
        in: path
        required: true
        description: User ID for marking as to be removed.
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int
      tags:
      - User
      operationId: deleteUser
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/200'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/401'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/403'
        '404':
          description: User not found. No user exists with the specified ID.
          headers:
            X-Request-Id:
              description: The ID of the corresponding request for the response
              schema:
                type: string
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Errors'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/500'
  /users/{user_id}/sysadmin:
    put:
      summary: Update a registered user to change to be an administrator of Harbor
      description: Promote or demote a registered user to/from Harbor system administrator. Requires system admin privileges.
      tags:
      - User
      operationId: setUserSysAdmin
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/requestId'
      - name: user_id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/200'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/401'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/403'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/404'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/500'
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/UserSysAdminFlag'
        description: Toggle a user to admin or not.
        required: true
  /users/{user_id}/password:
    put:
      summary: Change the password on a user that already exists
      description: This endpoint is for user to update password. Users with the admin role can change any user's password. Regular users can change only their own password.
      tags:
      - User
      operationId: updateUserPassword
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/requestId'
      - name: user_id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/200'
        '400':
          description: Invalid user ID; Password does not meet requirement
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/401'
        '403':
          description: The caller does not have permission to update the password of the user with given ID, or the old password in request body is not correct.
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/500'
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/PasswordReq'
        description: Password to be updated, the attribute 'old_password' is optional when the API is called by the system administrator.
        required: true
  /users/current/permissions:
    get:
      summary: Get current user permissions
      description: Get the RBAC permission list for the currently authenticated user, optionally filtered by scope.
      tags:
      - User
      operationId: getCurrentUserPermissions
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/requestId'
      - name: scope
        in: query
        required: false
        description: The scope for the permission
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: relative
        in: query
        required: false
        description: 'If true, the resources in the response are relative to the scope,

          eg for resource ''/project/1/repository'' if relative is ''true'' then the resource in response will be ''repository''.

          '
        schema:
          type: boolean
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Get current user permission successfully.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/Permission'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/401'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/500'
  /users/{user_id}/cli_secret:
    put:
      summary: Set CLI secret for a user
      description: This endpoint let user generate a new CLI secret for himself. This API only works when auth mode is set to 'OIDC'. Once this API returns with successful status, the old secret will be invalid, as there will be only one CLI secret for a user.
      tags:
      - User
      operationId: setCliSecret
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/requestId'
      - name: user_id
        in: path
        required: true
        description: User ID
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The secret is successfully updated
        '400':
          description: Invalid user ID.  Or user is not onboarded via OIDC authentication. Or the secret does not meet the standard.
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/401'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/403'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/404'
        '412':
          description: The auth mode of the system is not "oidc_auth", or the user is not onboarded via OIDC AuthN.
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/500'
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/OIDCCliSecretReq'
        required: true
components:
  responses:
    '400':
      description: Bad request. The request body or query parameters are invalid. Inspect the `errors` array in the response body for details.
      headers:
        X-Request-Id:
          description: The ID of the corresponding request for the response
          schema:
            type: string
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Errors'
    '412':
      description: Precondition failed. A dependency or policy check failed; inspect the `errors` array for the constraint that was violated.
      headers:
        X-Request-Id:
          description: The ID of the corresponding request for the response
          schema:
            type: string
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Errors'
    '201':
      description: Created
      headers:
        X-Request-Id:
          description: The ID of the corresponding request for the response
          schema:
            type: string
        Location:
          description: The location of the resource
          schema:
            type: string
    '200':
      description: Success
      headers:
        X-Request-Id:
          description: The ID of the corresponding request for the response
          schema:
            type: string
    '404':
      description: Not found. The requested resource does not exist.
      headers:
        X-Request-Id:
          description: The ID of the corresponding request for the response
          schema:
            type: string
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Errors'
    '401':
      description: Unauthorized. Authentication is required to access this resource.
      headers:
        X-Request-Id:
          description: The ID of the corresponding request for the response
          schema:
            type: string
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Errors'
    '403':
      description: Forbidden. The caller does not have sufficient permission to perform the requested operation.
      headers:
        X-Request-Id:
          description: The ID of the corresponding request for the response
          schema:
            type: string
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Errors'
    '500':
      description: Internal server error. Inspect the `errors` array in the response body for details.
      headers:
        X-Request-Id:
          description: The ID of the corresponding request for the response
          schema:
            type: string
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Errors'
  schemas:
    OIDCUserInfo:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: integer
          format: int
          description: the ID of the OIDC info record
        user_id:
          type: integer
          format: int
          description: the ID of the user
        subiss:
          type: string
          description: the concatenation of sub and issuer in the ID token
        secret:
          type: string
          description: the secret of the OIDC user that can be used for CLI to push/pull artifacts
        creation_time:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          description: The creation time of the OIDC user info record.
        update_time:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          description: The update time of the OIDC user info record.
    UserProfile:
      type: object
      properties:
        email:
          type: string
        realname:
          type: string
        comment:
          type: string
    Error:
      description: a model for all the error response coming from harbor
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          description: The error code
        message:
          type: string
          description: The error message
      example:
        code: NOT_FOUND
        message: artifact library/hello-world:latest not found
    UserResp:
      type: object
      properties:
        email:
          type: string
        realname:
          type: string
        comment:
          type: string
        user_id:
          type: integer
          format: int
        username:
          type: string
        sysadmin_flag:
          type: boolean
          x-omitempty: false
        admin_role_in_auth:
          type: boolean
          x-omitempty: false
          description: indicate the admin privilege is grant by authenticator (LDAP), is always false unless it is the current login user
        oidc_user_meta:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/OIDCUserInfo'
        creation_time:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          description: The creation time of the user.
        update_time:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          description: The update time of the user.
    Errors:
      description: The error array that describe the errors got during the handling of request
      type: object
      properties:
        errors:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    UserCreationReq:
      type: object
      properties:
        email:
          type: string
          maxLength: 255
        realname:
          type: string
        comment:
          type: string
        password:
          type: string
        username:
          type: string
          maxLength: 255
    OIDCCliSecretReq:
      type: object
      properties:
        secret:
          type: string
          description: The new secret
    PasswordReq:
      type: object
      properties:
        old_password:
          type: string
          description: The user's existing password.
        new_password:
          type: string
          description: New password for marking as to be updated.
    Permission:
      type: object
      properties:
        resource:
          type: string
          description: The permission resoruce
        action:
          type: string
          description: The permission action
    UserSearchRespItem:
      type: object
      properties:
        user_id:
          type: integer
          format: int
          description: The ID of the user.
        username:
          type: string
    UserSysAdminFlag:
      type: object
      properties:
        sysadmin_flag:
          type: boolean
          description: true-admin, false-not admin.
  parameters:
    requestId:
      name: X-Request-Id
      description: An unique ID for the request
      in: header
      required: false
      schema:
        type: string
        minLength: 1
    sort:
      name: sort
      description: Sort the resource list in ascending or descending order. e.g. sort by field1 in ascending order and field2 in descending order with "sort=field1,-field2"
      in: query
      required: false
      schema:
        type: string
    page:
      name: page
      in: query
      required: false
      description: The page number
      schema:
        type: integer
        format: int64
        default: 1
    pageSize:
      name: page_size
      in: query
      required: false
      description: The size of per page
      schema:
        type: integer
        format: int64
        default: 10
        maximum: 100
    query:
      name: q
      description: Query string to query resources. Supported query patterns are "exact match(k=v)", "fuzzy match(k=~v)", "range(k=[min~max])", "list with union releationship(k={v1 v2 v3})" and "list with intersetion relationship(k=(v1 v2 v3))". The value of range and list can be string(enclosed by " or '), integer or time(in format "2020-04-09 02:36:00"). All of these query patterns should be put in the query string "q=xxx" and splitted by ",". e.g. q=k1=v1,k2=~v2,k3=[min~max]
      in: query
      required: false
      schema:
        type: string
  securitySchemes:
    basic:
      type: http
      scheme: basic