Creating an SSO User via Webservice

Following steps to be followed for creating SSO user via Webservice

Step1:

We need to Create User first

Endpoint - user.json
Method - POST

Below payload will create a user with the roles “course author” (105847459) and “reviewer” (175031666), by sending the corresponding role ids (rid) as an array of values.

{
	"name": "newuser_username",
	"mail": "newuser@dlc-solutions.com",
	"status": 1,
	"roles": [
	{
		"id": 105847459
	},
	{
		"id": 175031666
	}]
}

If user created successfully following response will be received

{"uri":"http://your-domain.com/user/123","id":"123","resource":"user"}

Step 2:

Create Profile of user

Note:- A profile to an account requires the user id (uid) to be assigned to the user field in the profile data. In the previous creation request the uid value returned is 123 (Passing "user": 123)

Endpoint - profile2.json
Method - POST

{
	"user": 123,
	"label": "Profile",
	"type": "profile",
	"field_first_name": "John",
	"field_middle_name": "Middle",
	"field_last_name": "Smith",
	"field_profile_location":
	{
		"street": "123 S Broad Street",
		"additional": "Suite 2260",
		"city": "Philadelphia",
		"province": "PA",
		"postal_code": "19109",
		"country": "us"
	}
}

A successful profile creation request returns the following:

{"uri":"http://your-domain.com/profile2/72","id":"72","resource":"profile2"}

Step 3:

There is an additional step to connect an account to an SSO service.

Endpoint - authmap.json
Method - POST

  {
     "uid" => 123,
     "authname" => "ethosce_authname",
     "module" => "simplesamlphp_auth"
  }

123 --> This is the user id returned when user was created
ethosce_authname --> SSO USER NAME we want to MAP
modulename will be simplesamlphp_auth for all entries

Eg. if SSO username is TU06503

  {
     "uid" => 123,
     "authname" => "TU06503",
     "module" => "simplesamlphp_auth"
  }

A successful return will provide an array detailing the new authmap record information

{"uri":"http://www.domain.com/authmap/1","id":"1","resource":"authmap"}