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This section describes the autogenerated read-only API towards the database tables. See also the draft submission API description and the IESG ballot position API description
The datatracker API uses tastypie to generate an API which mirrors the Django ORM (Object Relational Mapping) for the database. Each Django model class maps down to the SQL database tables and up to the API. The Django models classes are defined in the models.py files of the datatracker. Browse the code tree for the models file in each app (such as ietf/doc/models.py, ietf/group/models.py, …).
The API top endpoint is at
https://datatracker.ietf.org/api/v1/.
The top
endpoint lists inferior endpoints, and thus permits some autodiscovery,
but there's really no substitute for looking at the actual ORM model classes.
Comparing a class in models.py
with the equivalent endpoint may give
some clue (note that in the case of Group, it's a subclass of GroupInfo
):
Data is currently provided in JSON and XML format. Adding new formats is fairly easy, if it should be found desirable.
Documents are listed at /api/v1/doc/document/.
In general, individual database objects are represented in the API with a path
composed of the model collection, the object name, and the object key. Most
objects have simple numerical keys, but documents have the document name as
key. Take draft-ietf-eppext-keyrelay
. Documents have a model Document
which
is described in the doc
models.py
file. Assembling the path components
doc
, document
(lowercase!) and draft-ietf-eppext-keyrelay
, we get the
URL:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/api/v1/doc/document/draft-ietf-eppext-keyrelay/
If you instead do a search for this document, you will get a machine-readable search result, which is composed of some meta-information about the search, and a list with one element:
api/v1/doc/document/?name=draft-ietf-eppext-keyrelay
To search for documents based on state, you need to know that documents have multiple orthogonal states:
states__type__slug__in=draft-rfceditor
states__type__slug__in=draft-iesg
states__type__slug__in=draft-stream-ietf
(but without additional filters, that's going to be a lot of documents)
states__type__slug__in=draft
describe the basic
Active/Expired/Dead whatever state of the draft.
You could use this in at least two alternative ways:
$ curl 'https://datatracker.ietf.org/api/v1/doc/state/?format=json&limit=0&type__slug__in=draft-rfceditor' $ curl 'https://datatracker.ietf.org/api/v1/doc/state/?format=json&limit=0&type__slug__in=draft-iesg' $ curl 'https://datatracker.ietf.org/api/v1/doc/state/?format=json&limit=0&type__slug__in=draft-stream-ietf'and then match the listed "resource_uri" of the results to the states listed for each document when you ask for
$ curl 'https://datatracker.ietf.org/api/v1/doc/document/?limit=0&name__contains=-v6ops-'
$ curl 'https://datatracker.ietf.org/api/v1/doc/document/?limit=0&name__contains=-v6ops-&states__type__slug__in=draft-rfceditor' ... $ curl 'https://datatracker.ietf.org/api/v1/doc/document/?limit=0&name__contains=-v6ops-&states__type__slug__in=draft-iesg' ...etc.
A simplified Documents API, intended for cases where only a limited set of
document attributes are necessary for an application is
available for all documents at the relative url doc.json
, e.g.,
{% url 'ietf.doc.views_doc.document_json' name='draft-ietf-poised95-std-proc-3' %}
.
You can also specify an RFC: {% url 'ietf.doc.views_doc.document_json' name='rfc2026' %}
.
No API key is needed to access this.
The simplified document API takes no parameters, and is invoked with a HTTP GET.
A simplified IESG ballot position interface, intended for automation, is
available at {% url 'ietf.doc.views_ballot.api_set_position' %}
. Access is limited to area directors.
The interface requires the use of a personal API key, which can be created at {% url 'ietf.ietfauth.views.apikey_index' %}
The ballot position API takes the following parameters:
apikey
(required) which is the personal API key hash
doc
(required) which is the balloted document name
position
(required) which is the position slug, one of:
yes
, noobj
, block
, discuss
, abstain
, recuse
, norecord
.
discuss
(required if position is discuss
) which is the discuss text
comment
(optional) which is comment text
It returns an appropriate http result code, and a brief explanatory text message.
Here is an example:
$ curl -S -F "apikey=AwAAABVR3D5GHkVMhspKSxBCVknGMmqikNIhT85kSnghjaV_pYy26WV92mm-jpdi" -F "doc=draft-ietf-lamps-eai-addresses" -F "position=noobj" -F "comment=Comment text" https://datatracker.ietf.org/api/iesg/position Done
This interface is intended for Meetecho, to provide a way to set the
URL of a video recording for a given session. It is available at
{% url 'ietf.meeting.views.api_set_session_video_url' %}
.
Access is limited to recording managers.
The interface requires the use of a personal API key, which can be created at {% url 'ietf.ietfauth.views.apikey_index' %}
The ballot position API takes the following parameters:
apikey
(required) which is the personal API key hash
meeting
(required) which is the meeting number
group
(required) which is the group acronym
item
(required) which is the chronological sequence number of the session (1 for a group's first session, 2 for the second, etc.)
url
(required) which is the url that points to the video recording
It returns an appropriate http result code, and a brief explanatory text message.
Here is an example:
$ curl -S -F "apikey=DgAAAMLSi3coaE5TjrRs518xO8eBRlCmFF3eQcC8_SjUTtRGLGiJh7-1SYPT5WiS" -F "meeting=101" -F "group=mptcp" -F "item=1" -F "url=https://foo.example/beer/mptcp" https://datatracker.ietf.org/api/meeting/session/video/url Done
The datatracker supports
OpenID Connect,
but
not dynamic registration. The OpenID Connect Issuer is
{{ settings.IDTRACKER_BASE_URL }}{% url 'ietf.api.urls.oidc_issuer' %}
The datatracker version and release/patch date is available as a JSON blob at
{% url 'ietf.api.views.version' %}
.
The datatracker has some API endpoints that uses Personal API keys,
rather than having general access or requiring username/password
login, see for example details for
{% url 'ietf.doc.views_ballot.api_set_position' %}
above.
Personal API keys are available from your
Account API Keys
page when you are logged in.
Personal API keys have some characteristics you should be aware of:
Too long since last regular login
" you should do
a regular login in order to activate access.
When sending notifications to other APIs, the datatracker may sign information with a RFC 7515: JSON Web Signature (JWS) , using a public/private keypair with this public key:
{{ key.export_public }}
or alternatively:
{{ key.export_to_pem }}
To verify a signature and get the verified data using Python with the jwcrypto module, you could do:
from jwcrypto import jwk, jws # ... receive json web signed data as 'data', used below ... key = jwk.JWK() key.import_from_pem(API_PUBLIC_KEY_PEM) # the key above jwstoken = jws.JWS() jwstoken.deserialize(data) jwstoken.verify(key) payload = jwstoken.payload