University of Vienna

PHAIDRA session API (University of Vienna)

Session management

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Operations 3

GET /signin Sign in #

GET /signout Sign out #

GET /keepalive Extends session expiration time #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: PHAIDRA Session API
  version: '3.0'
  description: Documentation of the PHAIDRA API.
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
servers:
- description: University of Vienna PHAIDRA
  url: https://services.phaidra.univie.ac.at/api/
- description: PHAIDRA Sandbox
  url: https://sandbox.phaidra.org/api/
tags:
- name: Session
  description: Session management
paths:
  /signin:
    get:
      summary: Sign in
      description: Authenticate with the api to get an XSFR token back (a cookie with the same name will be set as well). You then have to send this token back in an X-XSRF-TOKEN header for each authenticated call.
      tags:
      - Session
      security:
      - basicAuth: []
      responses:
        '200':
          description: a JSON object with an XSRF-Token
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  alerts:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      type: object
                      properties:
                        msg:
                          type: string
                        type:
                          type: string
                  status:
                    type: number
                  XSRF-TOKEN:
                    type: string
        '403':
          description: credentials invalid
      operationId: getSignin
      x-operation-id-source: derived
  /signout:
    get:
      summary: Sign out
      tags:
      - Session
      security:
      - tokenAuth: []
      responses:
        '200':
          description: ''
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  alerts:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      type: object
                      properties:
                        msg:
                          type: string
                        type:
                          type: string
                  sid:
                    type: string
                  status:
                    type: number
        '403':
          description: credentials invalid
      operationId: getSignout
      x-operation-id-source: derived
  /keepalive:
    get:
      summary: Extends session expiration time
      description: Extends the expiration time of the session token (the session is identified by the token).
      tags:
      - Session
      security:
      - tokenAuth: []
      responses:
        '200':
          description: a JSON object with an XSRF-Token and a new expiration time
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  alerts:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      type: object
                      properties:
                        msg:
                          type: string
                        type:
                          type: string
                  sid:
                    type: string
                  expires:
                    type: number
                  status:
                    type: number
        '403':
          description: credentials invalid
      operationId: getKeepalive
      x-operation-id-source: derived
components:
  securitySchemes:
    tokenAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-XSRF-TOKEN
    basicAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: basic

PHAIDRA session API (University of Vienna)

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