authenticate_user: authenticate a user for a Rook request

In jbrzusto/motus-R-package: Operate a server to process data for http://motus.org

Description

This is an app used by the Rook server launched by dataServer Params are passed as a url-encoded field named 'json' in the http POST request. The return value is a JSON-formatted string

Usage

authenticate_user(env)

Arguments

env	Rook request environment

Value

a JSON list with these items:

• token character scalar token used in subsequent API calls

• expiry numeric timestamp at which token expires

• userID integer user ID of user at motus

• projects list of projects user has access to; indexed by integer projectID, values are project names

• receivers FIXME: will be list of receivers user has access to

if the user is authorized. Otherwise, return a JSON list with a single item called "error".

Note

This is simply a convenience wrapper around

jbrzusto/motus-R-package documentation built on May 18, 2019, 7:03 p.m.