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Message #51627
Re: Need help to identify proper authorities to make API calls in DHIS
Hi DHIS Team,
Can you please respond to our query.
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 3:31 PM, Rajeswari Gottipati <
rajeswag@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi DHIS Team,
>
> We are planning to use DHIS OAuth in our application.
> We want to make API calls to view/add/update/delete the events, programs,
> dataSets, dataValues etc. For this we want to figure out minimum list of
> authorities so that access token generated from the user's login detail
> should be able to make api calls.
>
> *Requirement* :
> We require a user login that can make api calls to fetch data, but they
> should not be able to update data directly through DHIS.
>
> *What we tried : *
> We tried to assign selective authorities to the particular user role and
> we have following observation :
> 1. When we assign no authorities to the user role, and make api call for
> events we got below response
>
>
> *{"pager":{"page":1,"pageCount":2,"total":1365,"pageSize":1000},"events":[]}%*
>
> NO events came in the response json in spite of events present in the
> system.
>
> 2. When we assign all authorities except '*ALL*' to the user role, and
> make api call for events we got the same response as above.
>
>
> *{"pager":{"page":1,"pageCount":2,"total":1365,"pageSize":1000},"events":[]}%*
>
> 3. When we assign the authority '*ALL*' to the user role, and make api
> call for events we were able to get all the events. This also enables the
> user to make update data directly from DHIS.
>
> Could you please help us to figure out the minimum authority to make API
> calls?
>
> Thanks,
> Rajeswari & Gaurav.
>
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Rajeswari Gottipati
Sr Consultant
Email rajeswag@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Telephone +91 9949292931 <+91%209949292931>
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