= DETER Testbed API =

The DETER testbed API is broken up into 5 services, each covering one of the major abstractions that the testbed exports.  The services are:

 * ApiInfo
 * Users
 * Projects
 * Resrources
 * Experiments

We discuss each in detail and provide links to the detailed javadoc of the implementation, where applicable and available.

The document and API are both works in progress and will be fleshed out and changed as the API is modified.

== General Info ==

The API is implemented as a SOAP web service over TLS secured connections.  The user's identity is generally provided by a client certificate, but the client certificates are generally transient.  A valid temporary client certificate can be requested from the API by correctly responding to a challenge keyed on the user's password.

The API is implemented using the axis web service framework, which means that javadocs are provided for the various calls.

== ApiInfo ==

The ApiInfo service provides metadata about the running DETER API.  It also provides a simple check that a user is presenting authentication credentials correctly.

The sole call in the ApiInfo service is {{{getVersion}}}, available at https://api.isi.deterlab.net:52323/axis2/services/ApiInfo/getVersion .  It takes no arguments and returns

 Version::
  A string containing the API version number
 PatchLevel::
  A string containing the patch level
 KeyID::
  A string.  If the user presented a valid public key and passed the challenge, this is the sha1 hash of that key.  If no key was presented or an invalid one, this filed is not returned.

[http://www.isi.edu/~faber/tmp/doc/net/deterlab/testbed/api/ApiInfo.html javadoc]

== Users ==

The Users API is concerned with managing users and their profiles as well as authenticating to the testbed and receiving a client certificate for later calls.