User Management API

The goal of the user management API is to allow authenticated users with appropriate permissions to manage new and existing users.

Get Users

GET /users/

This endpoint allows you to get a list of users.

Headers

Name	Type	Description
Authentication	string	Authentication token from Cognito

200 Users successfully retrieved.

[
  {
    "Attributes": [
      {
        "Name": "sub",
        "Value": "<Cognito Username>"
      },
      {
        "Name": "email_verified",
        "Value": "true"
      },
      {
        "Name": "email",
        "Value": "<User email>"
      }
    ],
    "Enabled": true,
    "UserCreateDate": "Fri, 09 Oct 2020 17:39:20 GMT",
    "UserLastModifiedDate": "Fri, 09 Oct 2020 17:39:20 GMT",
    "UserStatus": "CONFIRMED",
    "Username": "<Cognito Username>"
  },
  <Other users>
]

403 You don't have a valid token from Cognito.

Get User

GET /users/:id

This endpoint allows you to get a user's details.

Path Parameters

Name	Type	Description
id	string	User Cognito ID

Headers

Name	Type	Description
Authenticaion	string	Authentication token from Cognito

200 User successfully retrieved.

{
  "Enabled": true,
  "ResponseMetadata": {
    "HTTPHeaders": {
      "connection": "keep-alive",
      "content-length": "344",
      "content-type": "application/x-amz-json-1.1",
      "date": "Mon, 12 Oct 2020 16:00:26 GMT",
      "x-amzn-requestid": "b88e891b-a0ec-4e21-bc96-d477eaf13b4e"
    },
    "HTTPStatusCode": 200,
    "RequestId": "b88e891b-a0ec-4e21-bc96-d477eaf13b4e",
    "RetryAttempts": 0
  },
  "UserAttributes": [
    {
      "Name": "sub",
      "Value": "<Cognito Username>"
    },
    {
      "Name": "email_verified",
      "Value": "true"
    },
    {
      "Name": "email",
      "Value": "<User email>"
    }
  ],
  "UserCreateDate": "Wed, 23 Sep 2020 17:37:00 GMT",
  "UserLastModifiedDate": "Wed, 23 Sep 2020 22:01:51 GMT",
  "UserStatus": "CONFIRMED",
  "Username": "<Cognito Username>",
  "x-hasura-allowed-roles": [
    "user", <Other user roles>
  ],
  "x-hasura-default-role": "user",
  "x-hasura-user-id": "<Cognito Username>"
}

403 You don't have a valid token from Cognito.

Create User

POST /users/

This endpoint allows you to create a new user. *Requires admin role

Headers

Name	Type	Description
Authentication	string	Authentication token from Cognito

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
date_added	string	An iso date to be provided if you want to override the date the user was created. ISO format: "YYYY-MM-DD HH-MM-SS"
email	string	The users email address. Min. length: 8, max. length: 128
first_name	string	The first name of the user. Only alphanumeric characters, white spaces and hyphens. Min. Length: 1, Max Length: 128
last_name	string	The last name of the user. Only alphanumeric characters, white spaces and hyphens. Min. Length: 1, Max Length: 128
is_coa_staff	boolean	True if the user is part of the City of Austin, False otherwise. If this field is not provided, this is automatically set to True if the email ends with "@austintexas.gov"
status_id	integer	The status of the user, 0 for inactive, 1 for active.
title	string	The job position title of the user.
workgroup	string	The workgroup name. Not empty, min length: 3, max length: 128. Allowed characters: a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and any of these special characters: _-!@%^~?.:&()[]$
workgroup_id	integer	The workgroup_id in the moped_workgroup table in the database.
password	string	The new user's password. Allowed characters: a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and any of these special characters: _-!@%^~?.:&()[]$
roles	array	Array of strings, must be at least one value. It must be at least one of these values: "moped-admin", "moped-editor" or "moped-viewer"

200 User created successfully.

{
  "ResponseMetadata": {
    "HTTPHeaders": {
      "connection": "keep-alive",
      "content-length": "359",
      "content-type": "application/x-amz-json-1.1",
      "date": "Fri, 09 Oct 2020 17:39:20 GMT",
      "x-amzn-requestid": "b6705165-b888-432e-a31b-8af46302fe52"
    },
    "HTTPStatusCode": 200,
    "RequestId": "b6705165-b888-432e-a31b-8af46302fe52",
    "RetryAttempts": 0
  },
  "User": {
    "Attributes": [
      {
        "Name": "sub",
        "Value": "<Cognito Username>"
      },
      {
        "Name": "email_verified",
        "Value": "true"
      },
      {
        "Name": "email",
        "Value": "<User email>"
      }
    ],
    "Enabled": true,
    "UserCreateDate": "Fri, 09 Oct 2020 17:39:20 GMT",
    "UserLastModifiedDate": "Fri, 09 Oct 2020 17:39:20 GMT",
    "UserStatus": "<Cognito Username>",
    "Username": "51bc4a5b-6615-4056-ad0a-e8ae515cb924"
  }
}

400 User already exists.

403 You don't have a valid token from Cognito.

Edit User

PUT /users/:id

This endpoint allows you to create a new user. *Requires admin role

Path Parameters

Name	Type	Description
id	string	Cognito ID (UUID) of the user to be updated.

Headers

Name	Type	Description
Authentication	string	Authentication token from Cognito

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
date_added	string	An iso date to be provided if you want to override the date the user was created. ISO format: "YYYY-MM-DD HH-MM-SS"
email	string	The users email address. Min. length: 8, max. length: 128
first_name	string	The first name of the user. Only alphanumeric characters, white spaces and hyphens. Min. Length: 1, Max Length: 128
last_name	string	The last name of the user. Only alphanumeric characters, white spaces and hyphens. Min. Length: 1, Max Length: 128
is_coa_staff	boolean	True if the user is part of the City of Austin, False otherwise. If this field is not provided, this is automatically set to True if the email ends with "@austintexas.gov"
status_id	integer	The status of the user, 0 for inactive, 1 for active.
title	string	The job position title of the user.
workgroup	string	The workgroup name. Not empty, min length: 3, max length: 128. Allowed characters: a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and any of these special characters: _-!@%^~?.:&()[]$
workgroup_id	integer	The workgroup_id in the moped_workgroup table in the database.
password	string	The new user's password. Allowed characters: a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and any of these special characters: _-!@%^~?.:&()[]$
roles	array	Array of strings, must be at least one value. It must be at least one of these values: "moped-admin", "moped-editor" or "moped-viewer"

200

Delete User

DELETE /users/:id

This endpoint allows you to delete a user. *Requires admin role

Path Parameters

Name	Type	Description
id	string	User Cognito ID

Headers

Name	Type	Description
Authentication	string	Authentication token from Cognito

200 User successfully deleted.

{
  "ResponseMetadata": {
    "HTTPHeaders": {
      "connection": "keep-alive",
      "content-length": "0",
      "content-type": "application/x-amz-json-1.1",
      "date": "Fri, 09 Oct 2020 17:25:02 GMT",
      "x-amzn-requestid": "833d74e7-6ad4-47b8-800f-2a279ceb2bbd"
    },
    "HTTPStatusCode": 200,
    "RequestId": "833d74e7-6ad4-47b8-800f-2a279ceb2bbd",
    "RetryAttempts": 0
  }
}

403 You don't have a valid token from Cognito.

Update User Password

PUT /users/:id/password

Path Parameters

Name	Type	Description
id	string	User Cognito ID

Headers

Name	Type	Description
Authentication	string	Authentication token from Cognito

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
password	string	The new user's password. Allowed characters: a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and any of these special characters: _-!@%^~?.:&()[]$

200

{
    "success": {
        "cognito": {
            "ResponseMetadata": {
                "HTTPHeaders": {
                    "connection": "keep-alive",
                    "content-length": "2",
                    "content-type": "application/x-amz-json-1.1",
                    "date": "Fri, 20 Nov 2020 22:54:09 GMT",
                    "x-amzn-requestid": "9580cdab-72ea-4048-a870-2b99bc045300"
                },
                "HTTPStatusCode": 200,
                "RequestId": "9580cdab-72ea-4048-a870-2b99bc045300",
                "RetryAttempts": 0
            }
        },
        "message": "User password updated: <User Cognito ID>"
    }
}

403