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Standard Procedure
Note: Please use http://bimplus-dev.mantro.net for the testing purposes because our productive server https://api.bimplus.net is not available to the market yet.
Generally, the Bim+ REST API calls consist of five steps for accessing the resources.
1. Developer Registration
Bimplus portal is the first place of contact of the user/developer for using the bim+ platform. Please do the developer registration here.
2. Authentication token 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 Bimplus portal should be provided here.
POST
Resource: authorize
URL: https://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 |
Authenticates a user and returns a token which can be used for further API calls for accessing the desired resources.
Content-Type: application/json
{
"user_id" : "test@bimplus.net",
"password" : "test",
"client_id" : "1FD44C0E-DCB4-11E2-A114-67286288709B"
}
Status: 200 OK
{
access_token: "9c1874a62c974dcfa75e0132c423a088"
expires_in: 2591999
token_type: "BimPlus"
}
3. Receive the authentication token
The token is received in the request.
POST
Resource: authorize
URL: https://api.bimplus.net/v2/authorize
Authenticates a user and returns a token which can be used for further API calls for accessing the desired resources.
Content-Type: application/json
{
"user_id" : "test@bimplus.net",
"password" : "test",
"client_id" : "1FD44C0E-DCB4-11E2-A114-67286288709B"
}
Status: 200 OK
{
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' |
4. Get the team information
The team has to be specified and setup through the bimplus portal as so-called slugs to present a 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.
GET
Resource: teams
URL: https://api.bimplus.net/v2/teams
Get all the available teams.
Authorization: BimPlus c939ebf5b96646528e0022a35f7a2e67 Content-Type: application/json
Status: 200 OK
[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"
}
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 Bimplus REST API .
For example, we can use this token to get the project list.
GET
Resource: projects
URL: https://api.bimplus.net/v2/<team>/projects
Example: https://api.bimplus.net/v2/nemetschek/projects
Get available project list with main properties.
Authorization: BimPlus c939ebf5b96646528e0022a35f7a2e67 Content-Type: application/json
Status: 200 OK
[3]
0: {
id: "c8c8e6f2-4495-484c-929d-0049f1f9d4ff"
name: "!!!!!_VORTEILSHAUS V40 SD45 Traufeingang"
}-
1: {
id: "2d703abe-b4f9-407c-af53-a39c5b7ba872"
name: "__5 999 Parklife Salzburg Lehen"
}-
2: {
id: "c480cc54-aec4-4bef-8d35-93bb090e1aba"
name: "0811-Wohnhaus Kraus - Carport1"
}
Tools
Plugins for doing REST based calls (REST Client)
Chrome --> Advanced REST client, Postman - REST client, Simple REST client
Firefox --> RESTClient
For validating or formatting JSON --> http://jsonlint.com/
