Users API

Creating a User

POST /v2/users/

Fields

Name	Description	Example Values
guid	The UAA guid of the user to create.	guid-ef7e740a-3a65-4948-8218-a16a1007cc89
default_space_guid	The guid of the default space for apps created by this user.
admin	Whether the user is an admin (Use UAA instead).

Request

Headers

Authorization: bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoidWFhLWlkLTk5IiwiZW1haWwiOiJlbWFpbC04OEBzb21lZG9tYWluLmNvbSIsInNjb3BlIjpbImNsb3VkX2NvbnRyb2xsZXIuYWRtaW4iXSwiYXVkIjpbImNsb3VkX2NvbnRyb2xsZXIiXSwiZXhwIjoxNDE2NTI2NzAxfQ.g2lbrEl2hPkqJM_rdF6iA2_5Jk9KBNoJpdUiQLDfkC8
Host: example.org
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Cookie:

Route

POST /v2/users

Body

{
  "guid": "guid-ef7e740a-3a65-4948-8218-a16a1007cc89"
}

cURL

curl "https://api.[your-domain.com]/v2/users" -d '{
  "guid": "guid-ef7e740a-3a65-4948-8218-a16a1007cc89"
}' -X POST \
	-H "Authorization: bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoidWFhLWlkLTk5IiwiZW1haWwiOiJlbWFpbC04OEBzb21lZG9tYWluLmNvbSIsInNjb3BlIjpbImNsb3VkX2NvbnRyb2xsZXIuYWRtaW4iXSwiYXVkIjpbImNsb3VkX2NvbnRyb2xsZXIiXSwiZXhwIjoxNDE2NTI2NzAxfQ.g2lbrEl2hPkqJM_rdF6iA2_5Jk9KBNoJpdUiQLDfkC8" \
	-H "Host: example.org" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" \
	-H "Cookie: "

Response

Headers

Content-Type: application/json;charset=utf-8
Location: /v2/users/guid-ef7e740a-3a65-4948-8218-a16a1007cc89
X-VCAP-Request-ID: 950efd02-a033-4e2a-88f4-b6452ef4b707
Content-Length: 1019
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

Status

201 Created

Body

{
  "metadata": {
    "guid": "guid-ef7e740a-3a65-4948-8218-a16a1007cc89",
    "url": "/v2/users/guid-ef7e740a-3a65-4948-8218-a16a1007cc89",
    "created_at": "2014-11-13T23:38:21+00:00",
    "updated_at": null
  },
  "entity": {
    "admin": false,
    "active": false,
    "default_space_guid": null,
    "spaces_url": "/v2/users/guid-ef7e740a-3a65-4948-8218-a16a1007cc89/spaces",
    "organizations_url": "/v2/users/guid-ef7e740a-3a65-4948-8218-a16a1007cc89/organizations",
    "managed_organizations_url": "/v2/users/guid-ef7e740a-3a65-4948-8218-a16a1007cc89/managed_organizations",
    "billing_managed_organizations_url": "/v2/users/guid-ef7e740a-3a65-4948-8218-a16a1007cc89/billing_managed_organizations",
    "audited_organizations_url": "/v2/users/guid-ef7e740a-3a65-4948-8218-a16a1007cc89/audited_organizations",
    "managed_spaces_url": "/v2/users/guid-ef7e740a-3a65-4948-8218-a16a1007cc89/managed_spaces",
    "audited_spaces_url": "/v2/users/guid-ef7e740a-3a65-4948-8218-a16a1007cc89/audited_spaces"
  }
}