Terrain Discovery Environment API

Terrain Discovery Environment API Metadata API

File and data metadata annotation

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Terrain Discovery Environment Analyses Metadata 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: Metadata
  description: File and data metadata annotation
paths:
  /secured/filesystem/metadata:
    get:
      operationId: GetFileMetadata
      summary: Get File Metadata
      description: Returns metadata AVU (attribute-value-unit) triples for a file or directory.
      tags:
      - Metadata
      parameters:
      - name: path
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        description: iRODS path of the object
      responses:
        '200':
          description: File metadata
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/MetadataResponse'
    post:
      operationId: SetFileMetadata
      summary: Set File Metadata
      description: Sets metadata AVU triples on a file or directory.
      tags:
      - Metadata
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/MetadataSetRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Metadata set
components:
  schemas:
    MetadataResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        path:
          type: string
        avus:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/AVU'
        irods-avus:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/AVU'
    AVU:
      type: object
      properties:
        attr:
          type: string
          description: Attribute name
        value:
          type: string
          description: Attribute value
        unit:
          type: string
          description: Optional unit
    MetadataSetRequest:
      type: object
      properties:
        path:
          type: string
        avus:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/AVU'
  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