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SCIM in Soffid

Introduction

Soffid has implemented a lite version of the SCIM protocol 2.0, only the basic features have been included. Some optional recommendations have also been included to improve the usage of this specification within the Soffid context.

This functionality is available only by installing the SCIM add-on. This add-on is available in the download section of the Soffid website. Please, see the following link: How to use SCIM in Soffid

Resources

The SCIM protocol is focused to resource management, such as a users, groups or accounts.

Soffid provides the following resources:

Resource

Description

User

Management of the users included in the Soffid solution.

A user is an identity that represents only one person.

Group

Management of the groups included in the Soffid solution.

A group could be part of a hierarchical group tree.

Users are assigned to a primary group but optionally could be in some secondary groups.

Account

Management of the accounts included in the Soffid solution.

An account is a representation of an application access.

A user may have a lot of accounts and may have some accounts for the same applications with different roles and restrictions.

Application

(addon version 1.2.0+)

Management of the applications included in the Soffid solution.

An application is a concept on gather and joins different roles and agents in a same conceptual place.

Every agent (of an external system) manages these roles through one or more applications.

By default, an application with the same name of an agent is created.

Role

(addon version 1.2.0+)

Management of the role included in the Soffid solution.

Every role is created in one application, so an application has a list of roles.

The roles are granted to users through account.

The resources are published as a REST web service, one may access them using the following URLs:

https://<your-domain>/webservice/scim/User
https://<your-domain>/webservice/scim/Group
https://<your-domain>/webservice/scim/Account
https://<your-domain>/webservice/scim/Application
https://<your-domain>/webservice/scim/Role

To use these URLs, please replace "<your-domain>" by the domain of your Soffid solution.

In SCIM all resources must be in uppercase (/User), the lowercase implementation is not provided.

Operations

For every resource the following operations are available:

Operation

HTTP method

URL example

Description

List all

GET

.../webservice/scim/<resource>

List all resources

Search by id

GET

.../webservice/scim/<resource>/<id>

Search the resource with the <id> specified

Search by filter

GET

.../webservice/scim/<resource>?filter=<filter-language>

Search all resources that fulfil the <filter-language> filter (please see filtering language here 5. SCIM filter language)

Create

POST

.../webservice/scim/<resource>

Create a resource

Update all

PUT

.../webservice/scim/<resource>/<id> + <JSON in the body>

Update all attributes specified in the JSON stream (the attributes not included will be cleared)

Update partial

PATCH

.../webservice/scim/<resource>/<id> + <JSON in the body>

Update only the attributes specified in the JSON stream (the other attributes will not be updated)

Delete

DELETE

.../webservice/scim/<resource>/<id>

Delete a resource

HTTP request

In every HTTP request the following HTTP header parameters are required:

Parameter
Value
Description
URL https://<your-domain>/webservice/scim/<resource> URL with the <resource> to be managed
Method [ GET | POST | PUT | PATCH | DELETE ] Method allowed in SCIM REST protocol
Content-Type application/scim+json SCIM specification
Accept application/scim+json SCIM specification
Authorization Basic YWRtaW46Y2hhbmdlaXQ= Only BASIC authentication is implemented in this version. A Soffid user (+password) with SCIM access is required to generate this parameter
Accept-Language [ EN  | ES | CA | NL ] This parameter is OPTIONAL. The default language is EN

HTTP codes

The following HTTP codes are managed in the HTTP response:

Code

Status

User case

200

Ok

After: list all, search by id, search by filter, update all, update partial

201

Created

After: create

204

No content

After: delete

404

Not found

After: resource not found

500

Error

After: internal error, PATCH DELETE