Hosting Service API

API Basics

The TeamDrive Enterprise Server architecture provides an extensive application programming interface (API) that can be used to:

  • Script/automate processes that would otherwise require use of the web-based administration console
  • Obtain information about various entities and parameters (e.g. user names, licenses, storage).

The API is based on XML Remote Procedure Calls (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML-RPC for a detailed description). Only HTTP POST-Requests will be accepted. Each request must include a checksum in the URL appended as a parameter. This checksum is created by calculating a MD5 checksum over the request body appended with a server-specific salt value.

The MD5 checksum value must be provided in lower case characters (e.g. by passing it through the tolower() function of the respective programming language).

On the TeamDrive Registration Server Administration Console, this salt value can be obtained from the APIChecksumSalt system setting (“Edit Settings -> RegServer”). On a TeamDrive Hosting Service, this value is stored in the configuration setting APISalt and must match the value of the Registration Server this Hosting Service has been associated with.

Each request also needs to include a <requesttime> which is the current timestamp converted to integer.

The URL to access the TeamDrive Hosting Service API looks as follows:

https://<domain>/pbas/p1_as/api/api.htm?checksum=<md5>

Please replace <domain> with the host name of the Host or Registration Server you want to connect to. <md5> needs to be replaced with the checksum of the current API request.

If you are accessing the API over a local network or a VPN, you can use plain HTTP. However, when sending the data over an insecure network, you must use HTTPS for security reasons.

Note

API access is verified by the IP address the request originated from. On the Registration Server, check the setting API_IP_ACCESS (“Edit Distributor Settings” -> “API” -> “API_IP_ACCESS” via the Administration Console) and make sure that the external IP address of the system performing the API call is included in the list.

On the Hosting Service, the IP address must be added to the configuration setting APIAccessList.

Example API Call

The following shell script example outlines how an API call is generated and how the required MD5 checksum is calculated. In this example curl is used to perform the actual API call. The result is printed to the console:

#!/bin/sh

URL="http://hostserver.local/pbas/p1_as/api/api.htm"
CHECKSUM="d3b07384d113edec49eaa6238ad5ff00"
TIMESTAMP=`date "+%s"`
REQUEST="<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>\
<teamdrive><apiversion>3.0.003</apiversion>\
<command>getdepotdata</command>\
<requesttime>$TIMESTAMP</requesttime>\
<username>YourUserName</username>\
</teamdrive>"
MD5=`echo -n "$REQUEST$CHECKSUM" | md5sum | cut -f1 -d" "`
curl -d "$REQUEST" "$URL?checksum=$MD5"

API Usage Recommendations

On your side of the (web-) application, you must ensure that only successfully logged in users can view or change their own data. Users should never be allowed to view data from other TeamDrive Users. Only users associated with your distributor code can be managed with API calls coming from your IP. For users with a foreign distributor code you will receive a URL which must be displayed to the user so that they can login to the website of their distributor.

Error Handling

The following errors can occur due to misconfiguration or service failures, they may not return valid XML. Your application should handle these failures appropriately.

Wrong Apache configuration

Request:

http://<domain>/pbas/p1_as/api/service.html

Answer:

<html><head>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Found</h1>
<p>The requested URL /pbas/p1_as/api/service.html was not found on this server.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.2.9 (Fedora) Server Port 80</address>
</body></html>

Apache handler could not be addressed

Request:

http://<domain>/pbas/p1_as/api/service.html

Answer:

<head><TITLE>503 Service Unavailable</TITLE></head><body><H1>503 Service
Unavailable</H1><P><H3>Error Processing Request</H3></body> The following
error occurred in \'SendCGIRequest("td2api")\' while processing
your request: -12996 (-12946).

Application errors

Application errors will return error messages in an XML format like this:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.003</apiversion>
        <exception>
                <primarycode></primarycode>
                <secondarycode></secondarycode>
                <message></message>
        </exception>
</teamdrive>

<primarycode> and <secondarycode> (optional) are integer values. <message> is a text.

Error codes regarding the API will start at -30100 (see API Error Codes).

General errors with the PrimeBase Virtual Machine or database connection are in the range between 0 and -23000.

Programming errors

If a program error occurs, the server will return an error similar to the following one:

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Execution Error</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
<H2>Execution Error</H2><FONT SIZE = +1>An error occurred while processing
your request: <BR>Primary error code: <B>-10005</B>, Secondary error code:
<B>0</B><BR><FONT SIZE = 0><H3>"api_init.sys"@client line 7: ';' token
expected in place of 'execute'.</H3></BODY></HTML>

Invalid Requests

Invalid requests will return one of the following errors:

Unknown IP Address

Reply:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <exception>
                <primarycode>-30000</primarycode>
                <secondarycode></secondarycode>
                <message>Access denied</message>
        </exception>
</teamdrive>

Invalid Command

Reply:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <exception>
                <primarycode>-30001</primarycode>
                <secondarycode></secondarycode>
                <message>Invalid Command</message>
        </exception>
</teamdrive>

Invalid Request

Reply:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <exception>
                <primarycode>-30002</primarycode>
                <secondarycode></secondarycode>
                <message>Invalid Request</message>
        </exception>
</teamdrive>

Invalid XML

Reply:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <exception>
                <primarycode>-30003</primarycode>
                <secondarycode></secondarycode>
                <message>Invalid XML</message>
        </exception>
</teamdrive>

Requirements

A TeamDrive user can have different Depots on different Hosting Services. A record of which user has which depot can be stored on the Registration Server using “setdepotforuser” or in your own system by storing the username, the Hosting Service URL and the depot id.

Retrieve Depot Information

Note

This request must be sent to each Hosting Service where the user has a Depot.

Request:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <command>getdepotdata</command>
        <requesttime></requesttime>
        <username></username>
</teamdrive>

Reply:

Note

Storage and transfer quantities are in Bytes: 1 KB = 1024 Bytes. <userlist> is a list of Usernames which can access the depot to create spaces. This list is empty for a default depot.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <depotdata>
                <depot>
                        <depotid></depotid>
                        <name></name>
                        <status></status>
                        <accountnumber></accountnumber>
                        <created></created>
                        <storagelimit></storagelimit>
                        <storageused></storageused>
                        <transferlimit></transferlimit>
                        <transferused></transferused>
                        <userlist></userlist>
                </depot>
                <depot>...</depot>
                <depot>...</depot>
        </depotdata>
</teamdrive>

Error Cases

No Depot on the Server for the User

Reply:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <exception>
                <primarycode>-30301</primarycode>
                <secondarycode></secondarycode>
                <message>No Depot for User</message>
        </exception>
</teamdrive>

Retrieve Space Information

Note

This request must be sent to each Hosting Service where the user has a Depot.

Request:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <command>getspacedata</command>
        <requesttime></requesttime>
        <username></username>
        <depotid></depotid>
</teamdrive>

Reply:

Note

Storage and transfer quantities are in Bytes: 1 KB = 1024 Bytes.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <spacedata>
                <space>
                        <spaceid></spaceid>
                        <name></name>
                        <created></created>
                        <owner></owner>
                        <status></status>
                        <lastaccess></lastaccess>
                        <storageused></storageused>
                        <transferused></transferused>
                </space>
                <space>...</space>
                <space>...</space>
        </spacedata>
</teamdrive>

Note

The space name field is empty by default for security reasons. You can enable the returning of space names by setting the configuration options StoreSpaceNames and APIReturnSpaceNames to True via the TeamDrive Hosting Service Administration Console.

Error Cases

No Depot on the Server for the User

See above.

Depot-ID or the Combination of Username and Depot-ID is Unknown

Reply:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <exception>
                <primarycode>-30302</primarycode>
                <secondarycode></secondarycode>
                <message>Depot-ID does not match</message>
        </exception>
</teamdrive>

Delete Depot

Important

This call will also delete all of the user’s spaces

Added in 3.0.004:

<changeinfo>: can be used as a free text field for the change history

Request:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <command>deletedepot</command>
        <requesttime></requesttime>
        <username></username>
        <depotid></depotid>
        <changeinfo></changeinfo>
</teamdrive>

Reply:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <intresult>0</intresult>
</teamdrive>

Error Cases

No Depot on the Server for the User

See above.

Depot-ID or the Combination of Username and Depot-ID is Unknown

See above.

Activate Depot (added in 3.0.004)

Request:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <command>activatedepot</command>
        <requesttime></requesttime>
        <username></username>
        <depotid></depotid>
        <changeinfo></changeinfo>
</teamdrive>

Reply:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <intresult>0</intresult>
</teamdrive>

Error Cases

No Depot on the Server for the User

See above.

Depot-ID or the Combination of Username and Depot-ID is Unknown

See above.

Deactivate Depot (added in 3.0.002)

Added in 3.0.004:

<changeinfo>: can be used as a free text field for the change history

Request:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <command>deactivatedepot</command>
        <requesttime></requesttime>
        <username></username>
        <depotid></depotid>
        <changeinfo></changeinfo>
</teamdrive>

Reply:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <intresult>0</intresult>
</teamdrive>

Error Cases

No Depot on the Server for the User

See above.

Depot-ID or the Combination of Username and Depot-ID is Unknown

See above.

Delete a Space

Note

<spaceidlist> is a comma separated list of space-id’s.

Request:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <command>deletespace</command>
        <requesttime></requesttime>
        <username></username>
        <depotid></depotid>
        <spaceidlist></spaceidlist>
</teamdrive>

Reply:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <intresult>0</intresult>
</teamdrive>

Error Cases

No Depot on the Server for the User

See above.

Depot-ID or the Combination of Username and Depot-ID is Unknown

See above.

Space-ID or Combination of Space-ID and Depot-ID is Unknown

Reply:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <exception>
                <primarycode>-30303</primarycode>
                <secondarycode></secondarycode>
                <message>Space-ID does not match</message>
        </exception>
</teamdrive>

Set Depot Limits (added in 3.0.003)

Note

The values of <disclimit> and <trafficlimit> is in Bytes: 1 KB = 1024 Bytes.

Request:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <command>setdepot</command>
        <requesttime></requesttime>
        <username></username>
        <depotid></depotid>
        <disclimit></disclimit>
        <trafficlimit></trafficlimit>
        <changeinfo></changeinfo>
</teamdrive>

Reply:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <intresult>0</intresult>
</teamdrive>

Error Cases

No Depot on the Server for the User

See above.

Depot-ID or the Combination of Username and Depot-ID is Unknown

See above.

Increasing Depot Failed due to Invalid or Wrong Disclimit or Trafficlimit

Reply:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <exception>
                <primarycode>-30304</primarycode>
                <secondarycode></secondarycode>
                <message>Increasing Depot failed</message>
        </exception>
</teamdrive>

Increase Depot Limits

Note

The value of <increaselimit> is in Bytes: 1 KB = 1024 Bytes.

Added in 3.0.003:

<increasetraffic>: value is optional; if empty, the storage limit * 10 will be used for the traffic limit

<changeinfo>: can be used as a free text field for the change history

Request:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <command>increasedepot</command>
        <requesttime></requesttime>
        <username></username>
        <depotid></depotid>
        <increaselimit></increaselimit>
        <increasetraffic></increasetraffic>
        <changeinfo></changeinfo>
</teamdrive>

Reply:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <intresult>0</intresult>
</teamdrive>

Error Cases

No Depot on the Server for the User

See above.

Depot-ID or the Combination of Username and Depot-ID is Unknown

See above.

Increasing Depot Failed due to Invalid or Wrong increaselimit

Reply:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <exception>
                <primarycode>-30304</primarycode>
                <secondarycode></secondarycode>
                <message>Increasing Depot failed</message>
        </exception>
</teamdrive>

Decrease Depot Limits

Note

The value of <decreaselimit> is in Bytes: 1 KB = 1024 Bytes.

Added in 3.0.003:

<decreasetraffic>: value is optional; if empty, the storage limit * 10 will be used for the traffic limit

<changeinfo>: can be used as a free text field for the change history

Request:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <command>decreasedepot</command>
        <requesttime></requesttime>
        <username></username>
        <depotid></depotid>
        <decreaselimit></decreaselimit>
        <decreasetraffic></decreasetraffic>
        <changeinfo></changeinfo>
</teamdrive>

Reply:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <intresult>0</intresult>
</teamdrive>

Error Cases

No Depot on the Server for the User

See above.

Depot-ID or the Combination of Username and Depot-ID is Unknown

See above.

Decreasing Depot Failed due to Invalid or Wrong Decreaselimit

Reply:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <exception>
                <primarycode>-30305</primarycode>
                <secondarycode></secondarycode>
                <message>Decreasing Depot failed</message>
        </exception>
</teamdrive>

Authorize Users to Create Spaces in other Depots

Note

<userlist> is a comma seperated list of usernames

Request:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <command>addusertodepot</command>
        <requesttime></requesttime>
        <username></username>
        <depotid></depotid>
        <userlist></userlist>
</teamdrive>

Reply:

Note

The reply will return a base64 encoded text in the <depotdocument>-Tag.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <intresult>0</intresult>
        <depotdocument></depotdocument>
</teamdrive>

Error Cases

No Depot on the Server for the User

See above.

Depot-ID or the Combination of Username and Depot-ID is Unknown

See above.

Remove Authorization from Users to Create Spaces in Other depots

Note

<userlist> is a comma separated list of usernames

Request:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <command>deleteuserfromdepot</command>
        <requesttime></requesttime>
        <username></username>
        <depotid></depotid>
        <userlist></userlist>
</teamdrive>

Reply:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <intresult>0</intresult>
</teamdrive>

Error Cases

No Depot on the Server for the User

See above.

Depot-ID or the Combination of Username and Depot-ID is Unknown

See above.

Update Contract (added in 3.0.002)

Note

<username> is optional

Request:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <command>updatecontract</command>
        <requesttime></requesttime>
        <username></username>
        <depotid></depotid>
        <accountnumber></accountnumber>
</teamdrive>

Reply:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <intresult>0</intresult>
</teamdrive>

Error Cases

Depot-ID or the Combination of Username and Depot-ID is Unknown

See Above

Create and Deploy a Depot

Note

Creating a new depot and deploying the depot file to a list of users must be done by executing a few requests to different servers. It depends on whether you want to use your own Host Server or the TeamDrive Cloud Host Server.

If you are using the TeamDrive Cloud Host Servers, you have to send a gethostfordepot request to the TeamDrive Registration Server. The reply will return a Hosting Service-URL dependant on your distributor code.

Send the createdepot-request to the returned URL or directly to your own Host Server, if you are using one. The reply will return a depot-document. Send this document, together with a list of usernames, to the TeamDrive Registration Server using the “sendinvitation” request as described above.

Requesting a Hosting Service-URL

Note

In <location> send “EU”, “US”, or the IP-Address of the user. The <location> will only supported if the distributor has servers in different locations running. Otherwise the default Hosting Service will be used.

Request:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <command>gethostfordepot</command>
        <requesttime></requesttime>
        <username></username>
        <location></location>
</teamdrive>

Reply:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <hosturl></hosturl>
</teamdrive>

Error Cases

User Unknown

See above

Account not Activated

See above

Invalid Location

Reply:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <exception>
                <primarycode>-30112</primarycode>
                <secondarycode></secondarycode>
                <message>Invalid location</message>
        </exception>
</teamdrive>

Create Depot

Note

<userlist> is a comma separated list of usernames (this parameter is optional).

Added in 3.0.004:

<changeinfo>: can be used as a free text field for the change history

Request:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <command>createdepot</command>
        <requesttime></requesttime>
        <username></username>
        <storagelimit></storagelimit>
        <trafficlimit></trafficlimit>
        <userlist></userlist>
        <changeinfo></changeinfo>
</teamdrive>

Reply:

Note

The reply will return a base64 encoded text in the <depotdocument>-Tag, which must be send as an sendinvitation request, with the list of users, to the Registration Server (see Registration Server API “send invitation” using the command “sendinvitation”).

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <depotdocument>...</depotdocument>
</teamdrive>

Error Cases

Creating depot failed due to invalid Depot-ID

Reply:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <exception>
                <primarycode>-30302</primarycode>
                <secondarycode></secondarycode>
                <message>Depot-ID does not match</message>
        </exception>
</teamdrive>

Creating Depot Failed due to Invalid Storage Limit

Reply:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <exception>
                <primarycode>-30306</primarycode>
                <secondarycode></secondarycode>
                <message>Invalid storage limit</message>
        </exception>
</teamdrive>

Create Depot Without User (added in 3.0.002)

Note

The request is similar to createdepot. Might be useful if a shop application wanted to retrieve a depot before the user has an account in the shop.

Added in 3.0.004:

<changeinfo>: can be used as a free text field for the change history

Request:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <command>createdepotwithoutuser</command>
        <requesttime></requesttime>
        <accountnumber></accountnumber>
        <depotname></depotname>
        <storagelimit></storagelimit>
        <trafficlimit></trafficlimit>
        <changeinfo></changeinfo>
</teamdrive>

Reply:

Note

The reply will include the depot id.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <intresult></intresult>
</teamdrive>

Assign User to Depot (added in 3.0.002)

Note

This request should be used if the depot was created using the createdepotwithoutuser call. If the user does not exist yet, they will be created.

Added in 3.0.004:

<changeinfo>: can be used as a free text field for the change history

Request:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <command>assignusertodepot</command>
        <requesttime></requesttime>
        <depotid></depotid>
        <username></username>
        <email></email>
        <language></language>
        <gender></gender>
        <changeinfo></changeinfo>
</teamdrive>

Reply:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <intresult>0</intresult>
</teamdrive>

Error Cases

No Depot on the Server for the User

See above

Depot-ID or the Combination of Username and Depot-ID is Unknown

See above

Get Depot Document

Request:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <command>getdepotdocument</command>
        <requesttime></requesttime>
        <username></username>
        <depotid></depotid>
</teamdrive>

Reply:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<teamdrive>
        <apiversion>3.0.004</apiversion>
        <depotdocument>...</depotdocument>
</teamdrive>

Error Cases

No Depot on the Server for the User

See above

Depot-ID or the Combination of Username and Depot-ID is Unknown

See above