PingDS

Binary resources

Examples in this documentation depend on features activated in the ds-evaluation setup profile.

For details, see Learn about the evaluation setup profile.

Update a binary resource

  1. Ensure that the application has a resource to upload.

    For example, copy a JPEG photo picture.jpg to the current directory.

  2. Upload the binary resource as a base64-encoded JSON string.

    The following example patches Babs Jensen’s resource to add a profile photo:

    $ base64 encode --rawDataFile picture.jpg

/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEAYABgAAD/4QAWRXhpZgAASUkqAAgAAAAAAAAAAAD/2wBDAAEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQH/2wBDAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQH/wAARCAABAAEDASIAAhEBAxEB/8QAFQABAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAr/xAAUEAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/8QAFAEBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP/EABQRAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD/2gAMAwEAAhEDEQA/AL+AAf/Z

$ curl \
 --request PATCH \
 --cacert ca-cert.pem \
 --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
 --data "[{\"operation\": \"add\", \"field\": \"/photo\", \"value\": \"/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEAYABgAAD/4QAWRXhpZgAASUkqAAgAAAAAAAAAAAD/2wBDAAEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQH/2wBDAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQH/wAARCAABAAEDASIAAhEBAxEB/8QAFQABAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAr/xAAUEAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/8QAFAEBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP/EABQRAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD/2gAMAwEAAhEDEQA/AL+AAf/Z\"}]" \
 --silent \
 "https://kvaughan:bribery@localhost:8443/api/users/bjensen?_prettyPrint=true"

{
  "_id" : "bjensen",
  "_rev" : "<revision>",
  "_schema" : "frapi:opendj:rest2ldap:posixUser:1.0",
  "_meta" : {
    "lastModified" : "<datestamp>"
  },
  "userName" : "babs@example.com",
  "displayName" : [ "Barbara Jensen", "Babs Jensen" ],
  "name" : {
    "givenName" : "Barbara",
    "familyName" : "Jensen"
  },
  "description" : "Original description",
  "manager" : {
    "_id" : "trigden",
    "_rev" : "<revision>"
  },
  "groups" : [ {
    "_id" : "Carpoolers",
    "_rev" : "<revision>"
  } ],
  "photo" : "<base64-encoded-photo>",
  "contactInformation" : {
    "telephoneNumber" : "+1 408 555 9999",
    "emailAddress" : "babs@example.com"
  },
  "uidNumber" : 1076,
  "gidNumber" : 1000,
  "homeDirectory" : "/home/bjensen"
}

Read a binary resource

  1. Read the binary resource as a base64-encoded JSON string.

    The following example reads Babs Jensen’s profile photo:

    $ curl \
 --cacert ca-cert.pem \
 --silent \
 "https://kvaughan:bribery@localhost:8443/api/users/bjensen?_fields=photo"

{"_id":"bjensen","_rev":"<revision>","photo":"<base64-photo>"}