Consumption APIs

The following public API calls provide access to CSA consumer data. These calls were introduced in CSA 4.x and can be exercised through a browser at: https://<host>:<port>/csa/apidocs.jsp (substitute the host and port information appropriate for your CSA environment). You can make API calls and view the response from your server. This set of API calls is referred to as the Consumption APIs.

The consumption APIs are made up to two groups ( management APIs and consumer APIs), based on the use cases they address. The management API includes calls needed in CSA management roles such as system administrators, service designers, and so on. The consumer API includes calls needed in CSA consumer actions, such as shopping for and managing IT services.

The management API uses basic authentication whereas the consumer API starts with /mpp and use the X-Auth-Token parameter that is retrieved from the idm-service token call.

List of management APIs

API	Description
blueprint	Get information for blueprints
capsule	Install, list, and view capsule content
catalog	Manage service catalogs
component-template	Manage service topology component templates
component-type	Manage service topology component types
composition	List the candidate topologies that can fulfill the given partial topology
constraint	View property constraints
deployment	Manage service topology deployments
definition	Manage process definitions
design	Manage high-level design information
graph	Manage the graph definition of a design
group	Manage groups
instance	Manage service instances
javascriptstore	Manage the javascript respository
lifecycle	View lifecycle actions
metamodel	Manage metamodels for topology and sequence designs
option-model	Manage the option model
offering	Manage the association between resource offerings and resource providers
palette	Retrieve palettes related to designs
property	Manage properties
binding	Manage option model property binding
processengine	Manage process engines
provider	Manage resource providers
request	Manage service requests
offering	Manage resource offerings
subscription	Manage subscriptions
tag	Manage tags
topology	Manage service topologies
useraccess	Manage user access for service design containers

List of consumer APIs

API	Description
csa-group	Manage groups (Can only be used by consumer administrators.)
csa-organization	View information about organizations (Can only be used by consumer administrators.)
csa-user	View users (Can only be used by consumer administrators.)
mpp-approval	Manage approvals
mpp-blobstore	Manage small files such as icons
mpp-cart	Manage carts
mpp-catalog	Manage catalogs
mpp-category	View categories
mpp-detail	Manage service details
mpp-instance	View service instance information
mpp-notification	View subscriptions and notifications
mpp-offering	View service offerings
mpp-order	Place an order and manage existing orders
mpp-organization	View organization information
mpp-processengine	Manage process engines
mpp-property	View dynamic property's values
mpp-request	Manage service requests
mpp-subscription	Manage subscriptions
mpp-tag	Manage tags
mpp-user	View user information
mpp-wizard	Read a wizard offering with Marketplace Portal

See Using consumption API with a browser for more information on executing an API call from this interactive content.

The following is an example of the content displayed for a consumption API call:

You can click on any of the methods listed to get detailed content for that call, and an interactive "Try it out!" feature.

The content provides the following information:

• Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) syntax for each call
• Query parameters
• Data type of each parameter
• Model and schema information, if applicable
• Interactive "Try it out!" dialog that lets you submit calls to the server, view the results, and understand how to construct the REST URIs and any request body.

The following is an example of the information displayed when you click DELETE: