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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More about SigningHub
To know more about SigningHub, explore the following links:
  • Go to  SigningHub Knowledge Base to view all the relevant information of SigningHub.
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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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Instances

The Instance Module stores information about application instances installed via the installer and displays a list of all applications deployed using it.

Get Instances

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

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 Instance by ID

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

path Parameters
id
required
integer <int32>

Id of the instance.

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,
  • "machine_name": "string",
  • "service_address": "string",
  • "type": "string",
  • "version": "string",
  • "status": "string",
  • "created_on": "string"
}

Update Instance

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

path Parameters
id
required
integer <int32>

Id of the instance.

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:
machine_name
required
string [ 1 .. 255 ] characters

Name of the machine hosting the instance.

service_address
required
string [ 1 .. 255 ] characters

The service address (URL) where the instance is hosted.

Responses

Request samples

Content type
{
  • "machine_name": "string",
  • "service_address": "string"
}

Response samples

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

Delete Instance

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

path Parameters
id
required
integer <int32>

Id of the instance.

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"
}

Get Instance Status

Business applications can use this service API to get an instance status. An admin, who has permissions to manage instances in his role, can get instance status.

path Parameters
id
required
integer <int32>

Id of the instance.

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
{
  • "status": "string"
}