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Generally, the Bim+ REST API calls consist of four five steps for accessing the resources.

1. Developer Registration

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titleBimplus portal
urlhttp://www.bimplus.net/
is the first place of contact of the user/developer for using the bim+ platform. Please, do the developer registration here.

2. Authentication token

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request

The authentication request for accessing the BimPlus resource should be sent in the JSON format using the Authorization service. The registered user name and password in the

Newwindowlink
titleBimplus portal
urlhttp://www.bimplus.net/
should be provided here.

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idrequestToken
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labelHTTP Method

POST

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labelURL / Resource / Parameters

Resource: authorize 

URLhttps://api.bimplus.net/v2/authorize

JSON Structure

Name

Mandatory / Optional

Type

Description

user_id

mandatory

string

The email address of the user

password

mandatory

string

The user's password

client_id

optional

string (date)

The identifier of the used client

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labelDescription

Authenticates a user and returns a token which can be used for further API calls for accessing the desired resources.

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labelRequest
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titleHeaders
Content-Type: application/json


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titleJSON
{
 "user_id" : "test@bimplus.net",
 "password" : "test"
}
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labelResponse
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titleStatus
Status: 200 OK


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titleJSON
{
access_token: "9c1874a62c974dcfa75e0132c423a088"
expires_in: 2591999
token_type: "BimPlus"
}

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3. Receive the authentication token 

The token is received in the request.

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idrequestToken
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labelHTTP Method

POST

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labelURL / Resource / Parameters

Resource: authorize 

URLhttps://api.bimplus.net/v2/authorize

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labelDescription

Authenticates a user and returns a token which can be used for further API calls for accessing the desired resources.

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labelRequest
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titleHeaders
Content-Type: application/json


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titleJSON
{
 "user_id" : "test@bimplus.net",
 "password" : "test"
}
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labelResponse
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titleStatus
Status: 200 OK


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titleJSON
{
access_token: "c939ebf5b96646528e0022a35f7a2e67"
expires_in: 2591999
token_type: "BimPlus"
}

where,

access_token

The token to be used in any further API calls within the HTTP headers

expires_in

The remaining lifetime on the access token in seconds

token_type

The type of token – currently we use ‚bimplus'

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4. Get the team information

The team has to be specified and setup through the 

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titlebimplus
urlhttp://www.bimplus.net/
portal as so-called
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titleslugs
urlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_URL#Slug/
 to present a
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titleclean URL
urlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_URL/
. Slugs are lowercase unique identifiers based on English characters and numbers. The team slug will be used to know which tenant database to work on.

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labelHTTP Method

GET

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defaulttrue
labelURL / Resource / Parameters

Resource: teams 

URLhttps://api.bimplus.net/v2/teams

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labelDescription

Get all the available teams.

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labelRequest
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titleHeaders
Authorization: BimPlus c939ebf5b96646528e0022a35f7a2e67
Content-Type: application/json
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titleStatus
Status: 200 OK


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titleJSON
[2]
0:  {
id: "82884f54-96bf-4e9c-a2fb-44db8379378d"
slug: "nemetschek"
name: "Nemetschek"
owner: "132a78a5-b523-4bf2-8382-7098fac3f803"
totalStorage: 0
storageStats: null
status: "Active"
teamWorksConnection: "RGF0YSBTb3VyY2U9YmltcGx1cy5tYW50cm8ubmV0OyBJbml0aWFsIENhdGFsb2c9QmltUGx1cy5UZW5hbnQuRGV2OyBVc2VyIElkPWRiYmltbWFudHJvdGVzdDsgUGFzc3dvcmQ9MWprdGNudG9DcU9qeGtIMU9QOXg7IENvbm5lY3QgdGltZW91dD0xMA=="
dataStorageStatus: "Online"
}-
1:  {
id: "7eab1453-a4e7-4d05-983e-031544540e6f"
slug: "bimplus-demo"
name: "BimPlus Demo"
owner: "5592c628-588e-f5c0-b08b-088d43de9209"
totalStorage: 53687091200
storageStats: null
status: "Active"
teamWorksConnection: "RGF0YSBTb3VyY2U9YmltcGx1cy5tYW50cm8ubmV0O0luaXRpYWwgQ2F0YWxvZz1CaW1QbHVzLlRlbmFudC5iaW1wbHVzLWRlbW87VXNlciBJRD1iaW1wbHVzLWRlbW87UGFzc3dvcmQ9YWI3ZDRmNDc5ZGM4YjI1Yjg2MDc0Y2ZmZTNiNDBjZmY2OWQwNzQ1YjtDb25uZWN0IFRpbWVvdXQ9MTA="
dataStorageStatus: "Online"
}

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5. Request the desired resource

Using the authentication token and the team slug, the necessary resource can be accessed and the desired action can be performed on that resource using the

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titleBimplus REST API
urlhttps://nrldev.nemetschek.com/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4459171
.

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