Dossier

Dossier is a Ruby on Rails application that stores files. It is meant to store files from multiple systems in a very simple way. Files are attached to a source system, an owner and an uploader. All other information about the files is held in tags.

Dossier does not have a user interface. It is API only.

API

All API calls are available in JSON and XML formats.

API Key

Every application that interacts with Dossier must use an API key. This api key must be sent over as a request header with the key x-api-key.

List documents

• Path: /documents
• Method: GET
• Parameters: None
• cURL example: curl -X GET -H "x-api-key:72356d35079246030db0f76802811ef153fa06dc" http://example.com/documents.xml

Filter documents by tag

• Path: /documents
• Method: GET
• Parameters: tags=(comma separated list of tag ids or tag names), operator='and' is the default and returns documents that have all the tags specified, 'or' can be specified and returns documents that have at least one of the tags specified)
• cURL example: curl -H "x-api-key:72356d35079246030db0f76802811ef153fa06dc" -F "tags=1,cool" -F "operator=or" http://example.com/documents.json

List documents owned by a user

• Path: /owners/:owner_id/documents
• Method: GET
• Parameters: same as those listed for Filter documents by tag
• cURL example: curl -X GET -H "x-api-key:72356d35079246030db0f76802811ef153fa06dc" http://example.com/owners/234980/documents.json

Get a single document

• Path: /documents/:document_id
• Method: GET
• Parameters: none
• cURL examples: curl -X GET -H "x-api-key:72356d35079246030db0f76802811ef153fa06dc" http://example.com/documents/1.xml

Retrieve the raw file associated with a document

• Path: /documents/:document_id/file
• Method: GET
• Parameters: none
• cURL example: curl -X GET -H "x-api-key:72356d35079246030db0f76802811ef153fa06dc" http://example.com/documents/2/file

Tag a document

• Path: /documents/:document_id/tags
• Method: POST
• Parameters: name=(name of tag) or id=(id of tag)
• cURL example: curl -X POST -F "name=cool" -H "x-api-key:72356d35079246030db0f76802811ef153fa06dc" http://example.com/documents/1/tags.json

Untag a document

• Path: /documents/:document_id/tags/:tag_id_or_name
• Method: DELETE
• Parameters: none
• cURL example: curl -X DELETE -H "x-api-key:72356d35079246030db0f76802811ef153fa06dc" http://example.com/documents/1/tags/cool.json

Create a document

• Path: /documents
• Method: POST
• Parameters: document[owner_id]=(id of owner), document[uploader_id]=(id of uploader), document[file]=(the file)
• cURL example: curl -X POST -F "document[owner_id]=345346" -F "document[uploader_id]=2345625" -F "document[file]=@/path/to/file/example.txt" -H "x-api-key:72356d35079246030db0f76802811ef153fa06dc" http://example.com/documents.json

Delete a document

• Path: /documents/:document_id
• Method: DELETE
• Parameters: none
• cURL example: curl -X DELETE -H "x-api-key:72356d35079246030db0f76802811ef153fa06dc" http://example.com/documents/2.json