Terrain Discovery Environment API

Terrain Discovery Environment API Sharing API

Data sharing and permissions

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Operations 2

POST /secured/filesystem/share Share Data with Users #

POST /secured/filesystem/unshare Unshare Data #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Terrain Discovery Environment Analyses Sharing 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: Sharing
  description: Data sharing and permissions
paths:
  /secured/filesystem/share:
    post:
      operationId: ShareDataWithUsers
      summary: Share Data with Users
      description: Shares files or directories with specified users.
      tags:
      - Sharing
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/ShareRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Sharing completed
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ShareResponse'
  /secured/filesystem/unshare:
    post:
      operationId: UnshareData
      summary: Unshare Data
      description: Removes sharing permissions for specified users on files or directories.
      tags:
      - Sharing
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/UnshareRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Unsharing completed
components:
  schemas:
    UnshareRequest:
      type: object
      properties:
        unsharing:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            properties:
              user:
                type: string
              paths:
                type: array
                items:
                  type: string
    ShareResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        sharing:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
    ShareRequest:
      type: object
      properties:
        sharing:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            properties:
              user:
                type: string
              paths:
                type: array
                items:
                  type: object
                  properties:
                    path:
                      type: string
                    permission:
                      type: string
                      enum:
                      - read
                      - write
                      - own
  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