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| author | ojacobson <ojacobson@noreply.codeberg.org> | 2025-08-26 04:32:42 +0200 |
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| committer | ojacobson <ojacobson@noreply.codeberg.org> | 2025-08-26 04:32:42 +0200 |
| commit | 25914826e0f256789d943cd25375b2444130ce01 (patch) | |
| tree | 44ce77c5af10f2b90308ab31e9b383975ebfd280 /docs/api/initial-setup.md | |
| parent | 53944ef14af4d37c08464cb1bb9f3a8f09277194 (diff) | |
| parent | f6a79204c2ce9a15d7909c1c389417e0b7351cad (diff) | |
Remove unused response bodies from a number of API endpoints.
This removes the response body from the following methods:
* `POST /api/setup`
* `POST /api/auth/login`
* `POST /api/invite/:id`
* `POST /api/password`
The bodies returned from these methods were something of a rough guess as to what might be useful. Actual client development has shown that we don't use _any_ of the data from any of these API responses, so let's not tie ourselves to future compatibility by continuing to send them. We can add a body to a bodyless method a _lot_ more easily than we can change the body of a method that already returns one, after all.
These changes are not backwards compatible for clients which care about the existing bodies. To my knowledge, there are no such clients; the included client definitely doesn't care.
## Internals
Not only does this change stop returning bodies at the API surface, but it also stops retrieving and returning values used internally to construct those responses, simplifying the code a bit in the process.
One side effect of this is that tests that need to log in a user now need to manually verify the returned token secret, to convert it back into a user, whereas the previous versions returned both a token secret and a user during password login. I don't love the increase in the size of the tests, but I think it's the right tradeoff (and this change is code net-negative anyways).
Merges no-content into main.
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/docs/api/initial-setup.md b/docs/api/initial-setup.md index a3f6506..b52771f 100644 --- a/docs/api/initial-setup.md +++ b/docs/api/initial-setup.md @@ -17,8 +17,7 @@ New instances of this service require an initial setup step before they can full ## Requests before setup completed -Before the service is set up, all API endpoints, other than those specifically documented as exceptions, will return a status of -`503 Service Unavailable` to all requests. +Before the service is set up, all API endpoints, other than those specifically documented as exceptions, will return a status of `503 Service Unavailable` to all requests. Initial setup can be completed only once. @@ -64,29 +63,9 @@ The proposed `name` must be valid. The precise definition of valid is still up i <!-- This prose is duplicated from authentication.md, with small changes for context. If you edit it here, edit it there, too. --> -This endpoint will respond with a status of -`200 Okay` when successful. The body of the response will be a JSON object describing the newly-created user: +This endpoint will respond with a status of `204 No Content` when successful. -```json -{ - "id": "Uabcd1234", - "name": "Andrea" -} -``` - -The response will include the following fields: - -| Field | Type | Description | -| :----- | :----- | :------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -| `id` | string | A unique identifier for the newly-created user. This can be used to associate the user with other events, or to make API calls targeting the user. | -| `name` | string | The user's name. | - -The returned name may not be identical to the name requested, as the name will be converted to [normalization form C](http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/) automatically. The returned name will include this normalization; the service will use the normalized name elsewhere, and does not store the originally requested name. - -The provided password will also be converted to normalization form C. However, the normalized password is not returned to the client. - -The response will include a `Set-Cookie` header for the -`identity` cookie, providing the client with a newly-minted identity token associated with the initial user created for this request. See the [authentication](./authentication) section for details on how this cookie may be used. +The response will include a `Set-Cookie` header for the `identity` cookie, providing the client with a newly-minted identity token associated with the initial user created for this request. See the [authentication](./authentication) section for details on how this cookie may be used. The cookie will expire if it is not used regularly. |
