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Organization API Keys on Projects

Create and Assign One Organization API Key to One Project

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  • Resource
  • Request Path Parameters
  • Request Query Parameters
  • Request Body Parameters
  • Response
  • Example Request
  • Example Response
  • Response Header
  • Response Body

Base URL: https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/public/v1.0

Resource

POST /groups/{PROJECT-ID}/apiKeys

Request Path Parameters

Name
Type
Description
PROJECT-ID
string
Unique identifier for the Project whose API keys you want to retrieve. Use the /groups endpoint to retrieve all organizations to which the authenticated user has access.

Request Query Parameters

The following query parameters are optional:

Name
Type
Description
Default
pageNum
integer
Page number (1-index based).
1
itemsPerPage
integer
Number of items to return per page, up to a maximum of 500.
100
pretty
boolean
false
envelope
boolean

Indicates whether or not to wrap the response in an envelope.

Some API clients cannot access the HTTP response headers or status code. To remediate this, set "envelope" : true in the query.

For endpoints that return one result, response body includes:

Name
Description
status
HTTP response code
content
Expected response body

For endpoints that return a list of results, the results object is an envelope. Cloud Manager adds the status field to the response body.

None

Request Body Parameters

At least one of the two body parameters are required.

Name
Type
Description
desc
string
Description of the API key. Must be between 1 and 250 characters in length.
roles
string array

List of roles that the API Key needs to have. If the roles array is provided:

  • Provide at least one role

  • Make sure all roles must be valid for the Project

Project roles include:

Role Value in API
Role
GROUP_AUTOMATION_ADMIN
GROUP_BACKUP_ADMIN
GROUP_BILLING_ADMIN
Project Billing Admin
GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_ADMIN
GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_READ_ONLY
GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_READ_WRITE
GROUP_MONITORING_ADMIN
GROUP_OWNER
GROUP_READ_ONLY
GROUP_USER_ADMIN

Response

Name
Type
Description
desc
string
Description of this Organization API key assigned to this Project.
id
string
Unique identifier for this Organization API key assigned to this Project.
privateKey
string

Redacted Private key for this Organization API key assigned to this Project.

This key displays unredacted when first created.

publicKey
string
Public key for this Organization API key assigned to this Project.
roles
object array
Roles that this Organization API key assigned to this Project has. This array returns all the Organization and Project roles the user has in Cloud Manager.
roles.groupId
string
Unique identifier of the Project to which this role belongs.
roles.orgId
string
Unique identifier of the Organization to which this role belongs.
roles.roleName
string

Name of the role. This resource returns all the roles the user has in Cloud Manager. Possible values are:

Organization Roles

If this is an roles.orgId (Organization), values include:

Role Value in API
Role
ORG_OWNER
ORG_MEMBER
ORG_GROUP_CREATOR
ORG_BILLING_ADMIN
ORG_READ_ONLY
ORG_BILLING_READ_ONLY

Project Roles

If this is an roles.groupId (Project), values include:

Role Value in API
Role
GROUP_AUTOMATION_ADMIN
GROUP_BACKUP_ADMIN
GROUP_BILLING_ADMIN
Project Billing Admin
GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_ADMIN
GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_READ_ONLY
GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_READ_WRITE
GROUP_MONITORING_ADMIN
GROUP_OWNER
GROUP_READ_ONLY
GROUP_USER_ADMIN

Example Request

Note

The user who makes the request can be formatted as {PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}.

1curl --user "{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}" --digest \
2     --header "Accept: application/json" \
3     --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
4     --include \
5     --request POST "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/public/v1.0/groups/{PROJECT-ID}/apiKeys?pretty=true" \
6     --data '{
7       "desc" : "New API key for test purposes",
8       "roles": ["GROUP_READ_ONLY", "GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_ADMIN"]
9     }'

Example Response

Response Header

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Content-Type: application/json;charset=ISO-8859-1
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
WWW-Authenticate: Digest realm="MMS Public API", domain="", nonce="{nonce}", algorithm=MD5, op="auth", stale=false
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}
Connection: keep-alive
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: application/json
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=300
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}
X-MongoDB-Service-Version: gitHash={gitHash}; versionString={ApplicationVersion}

Response Body

1{
2  "desc" : "New API key for test purposes",
3  "id" : "5d1d143c87d9d63e6d694746",
4  "links" : [ {
5    "href" : "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/public/v1.0/orgs/5980cfe20b6d97029d82fa63/apiKeys/5d1d143c87d9d63e6d694746",
6    "rel" : "self"
7  } ],
8  "privateKey" : "********-****-****-db2c132ca78d",
9  "publicKey" : "{PUBLIC-KEY}",
10  "roles" : [ {
11    "groupId" : "{PROJECT-ID}",
12    "roleName" : "GROUP_READ_ONLY"
13  }, {
14    "groupId" : "{PROJECT-ID}",
15    "roleName" : "GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_ADMIN"
16  }, {
17    "orgId" : "5980cfe20b6d97029d82fa63",
18    "roleName" : "ORG_BILLING_ADMIN"
19  } ]
20}

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