SigningHub Admin API Guide

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Welcome

Welcome to SigningHub, a high trust digital signing solution for all your paperless business transactions. It is ideal for those organisations that recognise the value of using cryptographic digital signatures to protect their users and their documents against unauthorised or accidental or fraudulent changes.
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Intended Readership
This guide is intended for developers who will integrate SigningHub into their respective web applications using the RESTful web services, and user interface offered by SigningHub. It is assumed that the reader has a basic knowledge of REST, Java, C#, HTML, JavaScript, HTTP and TLS/SSL. There is no Software Developers Kit (SDK) for the integration, instead the integration uses HTML Forms and JSON so that integration is simple from any language including .Net, Java, PHP etc.

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Authentication Profiles

Authentication profiles provide the ways through which the end users may authenticate themselves to SigningHub. In addition to the conventional email/ password based authentication, SigningHub also allows the authentication facility through different external Identity Providers (IdP) i.e. Active Directory, Google, Linked-in, Salesforce, SSL Client, Office 365, Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) etc.

Get Authentication Profiles

Business applications can use this service API to get authentication profiles. An admin, who has permissions to manage authentication profiles in his role, can get authentication profiles.

header Parameters
Authorization
required
string
Default: Bearer {access_token}

The access token obtained as a result of first authenticating with a client certificate to receive a subject token, then exchange the subject token using the Token Exchange endpoint. The certificate must belong to a SigningHub Administrator authorized to perform this action.

Content-Type
required
string
Default: application/json
Accept
required
string
Default: application/json
x-forwarded-for
string

Client IP address, typically set by reverse proxy or load balancer

Accept-Language
string

Preferred language (e.g., en-US, ar-SA)

Responses

Response samples

Content type
application/json
[
  • {
    }
]

Add Authentication Profile

Business applications can use this service API to add an authentication profile. An admin, who has permissions to manage authentication profiles in his role, can add new authentication profile.

header Parameters
Authorization
required
string
Default: Bearer {access_token}

The access token obtained as a result of first authenticating with a client certificate to receive a subject token, then exchange the subject token using the Token Exchange endpoint. The certificate must belong to a SigningHub Administrator authorized to perform this action.

Content-Type
required
string
Default: application/json
Accept
required
string
Default: application/json
x-forwarded-for
string

Client IP address, typically set by reverse proxy or load balancer

Accept-Language
string

Preferred language (e.g., en-US, ar-SA)

Request Body schema:
name
required
string [ 1 .. 255 ] characters

Name of the authentication profile

description
string or null <= 255 characters

Description of the authentication profile

sort_order
integer or null <int32> [ 1 .. 9999 ]

Sort Order of the authentication profile

private
boolean

Private of the authentication profile

status
boolean

Status of the authentication profile

Array of objects or null (Models.ProfileDetailRequest)

Details of the authentication profile

Responses

Request samples

Content type
{
  • "name": "string",
  • "description": "string",
  • "sort_order": 1,
  • "private": true,
  • "status": true,
  • "profile_detail": [
    ]
}

Response samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "id": 0,
  • "created_on": "string"
}

Get Basic Authentication Profiles

Business applications can use this service API to get basic authentication profiles. For admin, there is no need of any permission to retrieve basic authentication profiles.

header Parameters
Authorization
required
string
Default: Bearer {access_token}

The access token obtained as a result of first authenticating with a client certificate to receive a subject token, then exchange the subject token using the Token Exchange endpoint. The certificate must belong to a SigningHub Administrator authorized to perform this action.

Content-Type
required
string
Default: application/json
Accept
required
string
Default: application/json
x-forwarded-for
string

Client IP address, typically set by reverse proxy or load balancer

Accept-Language
string

Preferred language (e.g., en-US, ar-SA)

Responses

Response samples

Content type
application/json
[
  • {
    }
]

Get Authentication Profile by ID

Business applications can use this service API to get an authentication profile by id. An admin, who has permissions to manage authentication profiles in his role, can get authentication profile.

path Parameters
id
required
integer <int64>

Id of the authentication profile.

header Parameters
Authorization
required
string
Default: Bearer {access_token}

The access token obtained as a result of first authenticating with a client certificate to receive a subject token, then exchange the subject token using the Token Exchange endpoint. The certificate must belong to a SigningHub Administrator authorized to perform this action.

Content-Type
required
string
Default: application/json
Accept
required
string
Default: application/json
x-forwarded-for
string

Client IP address, typically set by reverse proxy or load balancer

Accept-Language
string

Preferred language (e.g., en-US, ar-SA)

Responses

Response samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "id": 0,
  • "name": "string",
  • "description": "string",
  • "sort_order": 0,
  • "private": true,
  • "status": true,
  • "created_on": "string",
  • "profile_detail": [
    ]
}

Delete Authentication Profile

Business applications can use this service API to delete an authentication profile. An admin, who has permissions to manage authentication profiles in his role, can delete authentication profile.

path Parameters
id
required
integer <int64>

Id of the authentication profile.

header Parameters
Authorization
required
string
Default: Bearer {access_token}

The access token obtained as a result of first authenticating with a client certificate to receive a subject token, then exchange the subject token using the Token Exchange endpoint. The certificate must belong to a SigningHub Administrator authorized to perform this action.

Content-Type
required
string
Default: application/json
Accept
required
string
Default: application/json
x-forwarded-for
string

Client IP address, typically set by reverse proxy or load balancer

Accept-Language
string

Preferred language (e.g., en-US, ar-SA)

Responses

Response samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "message": "string"
}

Update Authentication Profile

Business applications can use this service API to update an authentication profile. An admin, who has permissions to manage authentication profiles in his role, can update authentication profile.

path Parameters
id
required
integer <int64>

Id of the authentication profile.

header Parameters
Authorization
required
string
Default: Bearer {access_token}

The access token obtained as a result of first authenticating with a client certificate to receive a subject token, then exchange the subject token using the Token Exchange endpoint. The certificate must belong to a SigningHub Administrator authorized to perform this action.

Content-Type
required
string
Default: application/json
Accept
required
string
Default: application/json
x-forwarded-for
string

Client IP address, typically set by reverse proxy or load balancer

Accept-Language
string

Preferred language (e.g., en-US, ar-SA)

Request Body schema:
name
required
string [ 1 .. 255 ] characters

Name of the authentication profile

description
string or null <= 255 characters

Description of the authentication profile

sort_order
integer or null <int32> [ 1 .. 9999 ]

Sort Order of the authentication profile

private
boolean

Private of the authentication profile

status
boolean

Status of the authentication profile

Array of objects or null (Models.ProfileDetailRequest)

Details of the authentication profile

Responses

Request samples

Content type
{
  • "name": "string",
  • "description": "string",
  • "sort_order": 1,
  • "private": true,
  • "status": true,
  • "profile_detail": [
    ]
}

Response samples

Content type
application/json
{
  • "message": "string"
}