Terrain Discovery Environment API

Terrain Discovery Environment API Identifiers API

Permanent identifier (DOI) requests

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Terrain Discovery Environment Analyses Identifiers API
  description: Terrain is the primary REST API gateway for CyVerse's Discovery Environment (DE), an open-source data science workbench for life sciences. Terrain validates user authentication via Keycloak JWT tokens and orchestrates calls to backend microservices covering filesystem operations, application management, data analysis, metadata annotation, notifications, and persistent identifier management.
  version: '2026.04'
  contact:
    name: CyVerse Support
    url: https://cyverse.org/contact
  license:
    name: BSD 3-Clause
    url: https://github.com/cyverse-de/terrain/blob/main/LICENSE
servers:
- url: https://de.cyverse.org/terrain
  description: CyVerse Discovery Environment Production
security:
- KeycloakBearer: []
- JwtHeader: []
tags:
- name: Identifiers
  description: Permanent identifier (DOI) requests
paths:
  /secured/permanent-id-requests:
    get:
      operationId: ListPermanentIdRequests
      summary: List Permanent Id Requests
      description: Lists all permanent identifier (DOI) requests for the current user.
      tags:
      - Identifiers
      responses:
        '200':
          description: List of permanent ID requests
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/PermanentIdRequestList'
    post:
      operationId: CreatePermanentIdRequest
      summary: Create Permanent Id Request
      description: Submits a request to assign a DOI or other permanent identifier to a dataset.
      tags:
      - Identifiers
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/PermanentIdRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Permanent ID request submitted
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/PermanentIdRequestResponse'
components:
  schemas:
    PermanentIdRequestResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        path:
          type: string
        type:
          type: string
        requested_by:
          type: string
        date_submitted:
          type: string
        status:
          type: string
    PermanentIdRequestList:
      type: object
      properties:
        requests:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/PermanentIdRequestResponse'
    PermanentIdRequest:
      type: object
      required:
      - path
      - type
      properties:
        path:
          type: string
          description: iRODS path of the dataset to assign an identifier
        type:
          type: string
          enum:
          - ARK
          - DOI
          description: Type of permanent identifier to request
  securitySchemes:
    KeycloakBearer:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT
      description: Bearer JWT token obtained from Keycloak via /terrain/token/keycloak
    JwtHeader:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-Iplant-De-Jwt
      description: Signed JWT token passed in the X-Iplant-De-Jwt header