Mainflux.mainflux/docs/getting-started.md

Prerequisites

Before proceeding, install the following prerequisites:

• Docker
• Docker compose
• jsonpp (optional)

Once everything is installed, execute the following commands from project root:

docker-compose -f docker/docker-compose.yml up -d

User management

Account creation

Use the Mainflux API to create user account:

curl -s -S -i --cacert docker/ssl/certs/mainflux-server.crt --insecure -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://localhost/users -d '{"email":"john.doe@email.com", "password":"123"}'

Note that when using official docker-compose, all services are behind nginx proxy and all traffic is TLS encrypted.

Obtaining an authorization key

In order for this user to be able to authenticate to the system, you will have to create an authorization token for him:

curl -s -S -i --cacert docker/ssl/certs/mainflux-server.crt --insecure -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://localhost/tokens -d '{"email":"john.doe@email.com", "password":"123"}'

Response should look like this:

{
      "token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJleHAiOjE1MjMzODg0NzcsImlhdCI6MTUyMzM1MjQ3NywiaXNzIjoibWFpbmZsdXgiLCJzdWIiOiJqb2huLmRvZUBlbWFpbC5jb20ifQ.cygz9zoqD7Rd8f88hpQNilTCAS1DrLLgLg4PRcH-iAI"
}

System provisioning

Before proceeding, make sure that you have created a new account, and obtained an authorization key.

Provisioning devices

Devices are provisioned by executing request POST /clients, with a "type":"device" specified in JSON payload. Note that you will also need user_auth_token in order to provision clients (both devices and application) that belong to this particular user.

curl -s -S -i --cacert docker/ssl/certs/mainflux-server.crt --insecure -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: <user_auth_token>" https://localhost/clients -d '{"type":"device", "name":"weio"}'

Response will contain Location header whose value represents path to newly created client:

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-Type: application/json
Location: /clients/81380742-7116-4f6f-9800-14fe464f6773
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 10:02:59 GMT
Content-Length: 0

Provisioning applications

Applications are provisioned by executing HTTP request POST /clients, with "type":"app" specified in JSON payload.

curl -s -S -i --cacert docker/ssl/certs/mainflux-server.crt --insecure -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: <user_auth_token>" https://localhost/clients -d '{"type":"app", "name":"myapp"}'

Response will contain Location header whose value represents path to newly created client (same as for devices):

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-Type: application/json
Location: /clients/cb63f852-2d48-44f0-a0cf-e450496c6c92
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 10:33:17 GMT
Content-Length: 0

Retrieving provisioned clients

In order to retrieve data of provisioned clients that is written in database, you can send following request:

curl -s -S -i --cacert docker/ssl/certs/mainflux-server.crt --insecure -H "Authorization: <user_auth_token>" https://localhost/clients

Notice that you will receive only those clients that were provisioned by user_auth_token owner.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 10:50:12 GMT
Content-Length: 1105

{
  "clients": [
    {
      "id": "81380742-7116-4f6f-9800-14fe464f6773",
      "type": "device",
      "name": "weio",
      "key": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpYXQiOjE1MjMzNTQ1NzksImlzcyI6Im1haW5mbHV4Iiwic3ViIjoiODEzODA3NDItNzExNi00ZjZmLTk4MDAtMTRmZTQ2NGY2NzczIn0.5s8s1hlK-l30kQAyHxEZO_M2NIQw53MQuy7b3Wf3OOE"
    },
    {
      "id": "cb63f852-2d48-44f0-a0cf-e450496c6c92",
      "type": "app",
      "name": "myapp",
      "key": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpYXQiOjE1MjMzNTYzOTcsImlzcyI6Im1haW5mbHV4Iiwic3ViIjoiY2I2M2Y4NTItMmQ0OC00NGYwLWEwY2YtZTQ1MDQ5NmM2YzkyIn0.FE6DWB3yJmBb8uojpQJaKUEbD0Elrjx0HhJA28bVzkU"
    }
  ]
}

You can specify offset and limit parameters in order to fetch specific group of clients. In that case, your request should look like:

curl -s -S -i --cacert docker/ssl/certs/mainflux-server.crt --insecure -H "Authorization: <user_auth_token>" https://localhost/clients?offset=0&limit=5

If you don't provide them, default values will be used instead: 0 for offset, and 10 for limit. Note that limit cannot be set to values greater than 100. Providing invalid values will be considered malformed request.

Removing clients

In order to remove you own client you can send following request:

curl -s -S -i --cacert docker/ssl/certs/mainflux-server.crt --insecure -X DELETE -H "Authorization: <user_auth_token>" https://localhost/clients/<client_id>

Provisioning channels

Channels are provisioned by executing request POST /channels:

curl -s -S -i --cacert docker/ssl/certs/mainflux-server.crt --insecure -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: <user_auth_token>" https://localhost/channels -d '{"name":"mychan"}'

After sending request you should receive response with Location header that contains path to newly created channel:

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-Type: application/json
Location: /channels/19daa7a8-a489-4571-8714-ef1a214ed914
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 11:30:07 GMT
Content-Length: 0

Retrieving provisioned channels

To retreve provisioned channels you should send request to /channels with authorization token in Authorization header:

curl -s -S -i --cacert docker/ssl/certs/mainflux-server.crt --insecure -H "Authorization: <user_auth_token>" https://localhost/channels

Note that you will receive only those channels that were created by authorization token's owner.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 11:38:06 GMT
Content-Length: 139

{
  "channels": [
    {
      "id": "19daa7a8-a489-4571-8714-ef1a214ed914",
      "name": "mychan"
    }
  ]
}

You can specify offset and limit parameters in order to fetch specific group of channels. In that case, your request should look like:

curl -s -S -i --cacert docker/ssl/certs/mainflux-server.crt --insecure -H "Authorization: <user_auth_token>" https://localhost/channels?offset=0&limit=5

If you don't provide them, default values will be used instead: 0 for offset, and 10 for limit. Note that limit cannot be set to values greater than 100. Providing invalid values will be considered malformed request.

Removing channels

In order to remove specific channel you should send following request:

curl -s -S -i --cacert docker/ssl/certs/mainflux-server.crt --insecure -X DELETE -H "Authorization: <user_auth_token>" https://localhost/channels/<channel_id>

Access control

Channel can be observed as a communication group of clients. Only clients that are connected to the channel can send and receive messages from other clients in this channel. Clients that are not connected to this channel are not allowed to communicate over it.

Only user, who is the owner of a channel and of the clients, can connect the clients to the channel (which is equivalent of giving permissions to these clients to communicate over given communication group).

To connect client to the channel you should send following request:

curl -s -S -i --cacert docker/ssl/certs/mainflux-server.crt --insecure -X PUT -H "Authorization: <user_auth_token>" https://localhost/channels/<channel_id>/clients/<client_id>

You can observe which clients are connected to specific channel:

curl -s -S -i --cacert docker/ssl/certs/mainflux-server.crt --insecure -H "Authorization: <user_auth_token>" https://localhost/channels/<channel_id>

You should receive response with the lists of connected clients in connected field similar to this one:

{
  "id": "19daa7a8-a489-4571-8714-ef1a214ed914",
  "name": "mychan",
  "connected": [
    {
      "id": "81380742-7116-4f6f-9800-14fe464f6773",
      "type": "device",
      "name": "weio",
      "key": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpYXQiOjE1MjMzNTQ1NzksImlzcyI6Im1haW5mbHV4Iiwic3ViIjoiODEzODA3NDItNzExNi00ZjZmLTk4MDAtMTRmZTQ2NGY2NzczIn0.5s8s1hlK-l30kQAyHxEZO_M2NIQw53MQuy7b3Wf3OOE"
    }
  ]
}

If you want to disconnect your device from the channel, send following request:

curl -s -S -i --cacert docker/ssl/certs/mainflux-server.crt --insecure -X DELETE -H "Authorization: <user_auth_token>" https://localhost/channels/<channel_id>/clients/<client_id>

Sending messages

Once a channel is provisioned and client is connected to it, it can start to publish messages on the channel. The following sections will provide an example of message publishing for each of the supported protocols.

HTTP

To publish message over channel, client should send following request:

curl -s -S -i --cacert docker/ssl/certs/mainflux-server.crt --insecure -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/senml+json" -H "Authorization: <client_token>" https://localhost/channels/<channel_id>/messages -d '[{"bn":"some-base-name:","bt":1.276020076001e+09, "bu":"A","bver":5, "n":"voltage","u":"V","v":120.1}, {"n":"current","t":-5,"v":1.2}, {"n":"current","t":-4,"v":1.3}]'

Note that you should always send array of messages in senML format.

WebSocket

To publish and receive messages over channel using web socket, you should first send handshake request to /channels/<channel_id>/messages path. Don't forget to send Authorization header with client authorization token.

If you are not able to send custom headers in your handshake request, send it as query parameter authorization. Then your path should look like this /channels/<channel_id>/messages?authorization=<client_auth_key>.