cURL Examples

Configuring Guest Access

See [page] for a number of examples pertaining to configuring guest access, roles, and CORS.

Login as an admin - POST to /system/admin/session

Use returned session_token as X-DreamFactory-Session-Token header in subsequent API calls.

curl -i -k -3 -X POST "http://localhost:8080/api/v2/system/admin/session" \
 -d '{ "email" : "[email protected]", "password" : "pass123" }' \
 -H "Content-Type: application/json"

Login as a user - POST to /user/session

Use returned session_token as X-DreamFactory-Session-Token header in subsequent API calls.

curl -i -k -3 -X POST "http://localhost:8080/api/v2/user/session" \
 -d '{ "email" : "[email protected]", "password" : "pass123" }' \
 -H "Content-Type: application/json"

Get all records from table named todo.

curl -i -k -3 -X GET "http://localhost:8080/api/v2/db/_table/todo" \
  -H "X-DreamFactory-Api-Key: <api key for app in the apps tab>" \
  -H "X-DreamFactory-Session-Token: <session token from login response>"

Create a new todo record.

curl -i -k -3 -X POST "http://localhost:8080/api/v2/db/_table/todo" \
  -H "X-DreamFactory-Api-Key: <api key for app in the apps tab>" \
  -H "X-DreamFactory-Session-Token: <session token from login response>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"resource":[{ "name" : "curl todo", "complete" : false }]}'

Update todo record with id = 1.

curl -i -k -3 -X PATCH "http://localhost:8080/api/v2/db/_table/todo/1" \
  -H "X-DreamFactory-Api-Key: <api key for app in the apps tab>" \
  -H "X-DreamFactory-Session-Token: <session token from login response>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "complete" : true }'

Delete todo record with id = 1.

curl -i -k -3 -X DELETE "http://localhost:8080/api/v2/db/_table/todo/1" \
  -H "X-DreamFactory-Api-Key: <api key for app in the apps tab>" \
  -H "X-DreamFactory-Session-Token: <session token from login response>"

Logout as an admin - DELETE /system/admin/session

curl -i -k -3 -X DELETE "http://localhost:8080/api/v2/system/admin/session" \
  -H "X-DreamFactory-Session-Token: <session token from login response>"

Logout as a user - DELETE /user/session

curl -i -k -3 -X DELETE "http://localhost:8080/api/v2/user/session" \
  -H "X-DreamFactory-Session-Token: <session token from login response>"