REST Web Services Enhancements in 2022.03

The following enhancement to the Web Services module was added in the 2022.03 release.

New Registry Service REST API

This release introduces a new set of Registry Service REST APIs that enable producers to download a log showing a summary of their end-customers’ download activity from all registry service instances.

Calling the /downloads endpoint retrieves the following data:

The ID of the artifact that was downloaded
The name of the user who downloaded the artifact
The account to which user belongs
The timestamp when an artifact was accessed

Authentication to the /downloads endpoint is facilitated by the new /authenticate endpoint. Producers pass their credentials—a base64-encoded string, which is a combination of the producer’s user name and password separated by a colon (:)—to the new /authenticate endpoint, which creates a JWT token that can be used to authorize access to the /downloads endpoint.

For more information about the Registry Service REST APIs, refer to the FlexNet Operations Web Services Integration Guide.