Demonstration: Talking to Vault

Introduction

Before communicating with a Vault server you should review the VaultAPI help, namely the "Best Practices" section.  The help file is available on the system where the vault server has been installed.

URLs

The vault server exposes 9 web services each accessed at:

http://someserver/AutodeskDM/Services/*****Service.asmx?WSDL

where the stars are replaced with the service name.  For example the document service url is:

http://someserver/AutodeskDM/Services/DocumentService.asmx?WSDL

The 9 services are:

1. Admin
2. Knowledge Vault
3. Information
4. Security
5. Document
6. Item
7. Change Order
8. Forum
9. Package

The last four services are only available with Product Stream.  

Additionally if you visit the url without the ?WSDL in your browser you will see a desciption of the methods provided by the webservice.

Examples

Using the suds python library you can connect to vault:

>>> from suds.client import Client
>>> client = Client("http://localhost/AutodeskDM/Services/SecurityService.asmx?WSDL")
>>> print client

Suds ( https://fedorahosted.org/suds/ )  version: 0.4 (beta)  build: R685-20100513

Service ( SecurityService ) tns="http://AutodeskDM/Services/Security/01/17/2008/"
   Prefixes (1)
      ns0 = "http://AutodeskDM/Services/Security/01/17/2008/"
   Ports (2):
      (SecurityServiceSoap)
         Methods (11):
            AddSystemACL(ArrayOfACE entries, )
            GetACLUpdateRestrictions(xs:long entityId, ArrayOfACE entries, )
            GetACLsByEntityIds(ArrayOfLong entityIds, )
            GetAllAccessPermissionsAndGroups()
            GetEntACLsByEntityIds(ArrayOfLong entityIds, )
            SetSystemACLs(ArrayOfLong entityIds, xs:long aclId, )
            SignIn(xs:string userName, xs:string userPassword, xs:string knowledgeVault, )
            SignIn2(xs:string userName, xs:string userPassword, )
            SignOut()
            UpdateACL(xs:long entityId, ArrayOfACE entries, PrpgType prpgType, )
            UpdateACLEntries(xs:long aclId, ArrayOfACE entries, )
         Types (19):
            ACE
            ACL
            AccessPermis
            AccessPermisAndGrp
            AccessPermisDef
            AccessPermisGrp
            ArrayOfACE
            ArrayOfACL
            ArrayOfAccessPermis
            ArrayOfAccessPermisDef
            ArrayOfAccessPermisGrp
            ArrayOfLong
            ArrayOfSecRestric
            EntACL
            EntsAndACLs
            PrpgType
            SecRestric
            SecRestricCode
            SecurityHeader
      (SecurityServiceSoap12)
         Methods (11):
            AddSystemACL(ArrayOfACE entries, )
            GetACLUpdateRestrictions(xs:long entityId, ArrayOfACE entries, )
            GetACLsByEntityIds(ArrayOfLong entityIds, )
            GetAllAccessPermissionsAndGroups()
            GetEntACLsByEntityIds(ArrayOfLong entityIds, )
            SetSystemACLs(ArrayOfLong entityIds, xs:long aclId, )
            SignIn(xs:string userName, xs:string userPassword, xs:string knowledgeVault, )
            SignIn2(xs:string userName, xs:string userPassword, )
            SignOut()
            UpdateACL(xs:long entityId, ArrayOfACE entries, PrpgType prpgType, )
            UpdateACLEntries(xs:long aclId, ArrayOfACE entries, )
         Types (19):
            ACE
            ACL
            AccessPermis
            AccessPermisAndGrp
            AccessPermisDef
            AccessPermisGrp
            ArrayOfACE
            ArrayOfACL
            ArrayOfAccessPermis
            ArrayOfAccessPermisDef
            ArrayOfAccessPermisGrp
            ArrayOfLong
            ArrayOfSecRestric
            EntACL
            EntsAndACLs
            PrpgType
            SecRestric
            SecRestricCode
            SecurityHeader


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