Nine documents carried a hand-typed contract version and every one was stale. One was load-bearing: PLUGIN-EXTERNAL-REPO.md told an external author to pin ">=0.13.0,<0.14.0" while the contract is at 0.19.0, so a plugin built by following that guide is refused by the loader at startup. The plugin count was wrong in six more. They now point at docs/PROJECT-MAP.md, which is generated. A test enforces it: no document may declare a version literal, a stated current version must match the code, and a stated plugin count must match the tree. ADRs are exempt from the current-version rule, because an ADR states the version a decision was taken AT - that is a record of the past, and rewriting it would falsify the record ADRs exist to keep. CONTRACT-STABILITY.md was missing 0.17.0, 0.18.0 and 0.19.0 - including the only BREAKING change in the series - in the one document a site reads to choose its pin. All three are recorded, with 0.19.0 called out: it took something away, and it shipped before it was written down, which is the argument for pinning tight rather than trusting that a minor bump is safe.
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API reference (index)
This page is an index and a pointer, not a full specification. It answers three questions: what endpoints exist, who calls them, and what auth they require. The detailed request and response shapes live in the live generated docs and in the per-surface contract docs linked from each table below.
Live and generated docs
The repo ships hosted, generated API docs. Start there:
- Interactive spec:
GET /api/docs- a self-hosted Redoc page over the generated OpenAPI spec. The Redoc bundle is vendored undershopdb/core/api/staticdocs/, so it renders fully offline on the air-gapped prod box (no CDN). - Raw spec:
GET /api/docs/openapi.json- OpenAPI 3.1, roughly 238 paths and 362 operations. Generated byscripts/gen_openapi.pyfromdocs/api-inventory.json; regenerate after any API change. - LLM / agent entry point:
GET /api/docs/llms.txt- a concise API guide following the llms.txt convention, plus a read-only MCP server (mcp/shopdb_mcp.py, built withFastMCP.from_openapiover the same spec). The MCP server exposes a curated set of GET endpoints as tools for an agent to query the asset database over HTTPS with a scoped read token; it never runs on the prod box. Set it up on a work PC with<imaging-share>/github/setup-mcp.cmd.
The docs blueprint is shopdb/core/api/docs.py (a core blueprint, always
mounted regardless of which plugins are staged into a site build).
Contract docs (linked per table below) hold the deep semantics: field mappings, idempotency rules, rotation, error envelopes, staged rollout. This page only routes you to the right one.
1. Fleet and client contracts (unauthenticated or token)
These are the endpoints the shopfloor PC fleet, kiosks, displays, and printer installers call. They are consumed by machines, not by the interactive UI, and they authenticate with a scoped service token or nothing at all.
| Endpoint | Auth | Purpose | Contract doc |
|---|---|---|---|
GET /api/geenforce/manifest?pctype=<scope> |
geenforce.fetch service token (X-API-Key or Bearer PAT) |
Serve the current published manifest for a PC-type scope. ETag / 304 supported. | GE-ENFORCE-CLIENT.md, geenforce-api-cutover.md |
GET /api/geenforce/payload/<sha256> |
geenforce.fetch service token |
Serve a payload blob (installer) by content hash so share-less PCs pull over HTTPS instead of SMB. Rate limited and size capped; the sha256 is the integrity guarantee. | GE-ENFORCE-CLIENT.md, geenforce-api-cutover.md |
POST /api/geenforce/report |
geenforce.report service token |
Record one PC's enforcement cycle: applied manifest version plus per-entry self-heal outcomes. | GE-ENFORCE-CLIENT.md, geenforce-api-cutover.md |
POST /api/collector/<plugin> |
X-API-Key env key or a collector.ingest managed token |
Generic idempotent inventory upsert; the PC fleet targets /api/collector/computers. |
COLLECTOR-INTEGRATION.md |
POST /api/collector/pc, /apps, /heartbeat, /bulk |
X-API-Key or collector.ingest token |
Legacy computers-only collector paths (predate ADR-006); deprecated in favor of /api/collector/computers. |
COLLECTOR-INTEGRATION.md |
GET /api/collector/status |
X-API-Key or collector.ingest token |
Collector liveness and endpoint list. | COLLECTOR-INTEGRATION.md |
GET /api/printers/install-list |
optional JWT (anonymous fleet or logged-in browser) | Flat list of network printers with floor-map positions for the signed installer. ?format=text returns a pipe-delimited variant. |
PRINTER-INSTALLER.md |
GET /api/printers/pc-default?machine=NNNN |
optional JWT | The PC's default printer by machine (asset) number, via the defaultprinter relationship. ?format=text supported. |
PRINTER-INSTALLER.md |
GET /api/printers/install-batch?printerids=1,2,3 |
optional JWT | Generate a self-deleting Windows .bat that installs the selected printers. |
PRINTER-INSTALLER.md |
GET /api/dashboarddefaults/display-role?fqdn=<fqdn> |
public (none) | Resolve what a display PC should show (role dashboard/lobby/partskiosk, frontend path, business unit). FQDN-first, IP fallback. |
GE-ENFORCE-DISPLAY.md |
GET /api/dashboarddefaults/visitor-location?fqdn=<fqdn> |
public (none) | Resolve the business unit for a lobby display by FQDN (IP fallback). | GE-ENFORCE-DISPLAY.md |
The geenforce.fetch and geenforce.report scopes accept both X-API-Key and
Authorization: Bearer transports, the same managed-token pattern the collector
uses (see COLLECTOR-INTEGRATION.md for how to mint, deploy, and rotate a scoped
token). A fetch token may be further resource-bound to specific scopes; a bound
token is denied (403 on manifest, 404 on payload) anything outside its scopes.
2. Import API
The import surface (an admin PAT plus X-Import-Mode to preserve legacy
timestamps) lets a script load an entire legacy database through the same
endpoints the UI uses. It is documented in full, per resource, in IMPORT-API.md
and is not duplicated here. The dashboarddefaults import fields (FQDN-preferred
keying) are covered there as well.
3. Core UI API
Everything else is the core UI API: the endpoints the Vue frontend calls. As a
rule these are JWT-authenticated (a login token or a managed Personal Access
Token) and versioned by the plugin contract (__contract_version__; the
current value is in PROJECT-MAP.md, which is generated). Behavior and stability guarantees are in CONTRACT-STABILITY.md;
sister sites should pin tight core_version ranges until the contract reaches
1.0.
Two auth patterns dominate the reads:
- Public (no token ever). The endpoints below are reachable with no credential at all. This is the surface a firewall or deployment reviewer asks about, so it is enumerated in full.
- Optional JWT (
jwt_required(optional=True)). Nearly every core and plugin GET (list / detail / report / dashboard-summary) is optional-auth: it serves reads anonymously and only requires a JWT for writes. There are well over a hundred of these; rather than reprint them, enumerate them from the live spec at/api/docs(filter to theGEToperations). All product reports (/api/reports/*and every plugin.../report*) are optional-auth by the same convention.
Every mutating endpoint (POST / PUT / PATCH / DELETE) requires a JWT and is
gated by require_role or require_permission; none are public.
Two GETs deliberately break the optional-auth convention and require a permission, because what they return is not asset metadata but a file that carries value or liability of its own:
| Endpoint | Requires | Why |
|---|---|---|
GET /api/applications/package/<filename> |
applications.view |
Licensed vendor installers. An anonymous URL is a redistribution channel. |
GET /api/warranty/proof/<filename> |
warranty.view |
Invoices and certificates carry pricing and a service tag. |
Their sibling upload/delete routes are applications.edit / warranty.edit
like any other mutation.
Fully public endpoints (auth = none)
| Endpoint | Purpose |
|---|---|
POST /api/auth/login |
Obtain a JWT. |
GET /api/setup/needs-admin |
First-run check: does the instance have zero users. |
POST /api/setup/create-admin |
First-run only; creates the first admin, then 403s forever. |
GET /api/settings/map-blueprint/<filename> |
Serve the floor-map blueprint image. |
GET /api/settings/branding/<filename> |
Serve site branding assets (logo, etc.). |
GET /api/settings and GET /api/settings/<key> |
Read-only, and only the public allowlist: the branding and map categories, a few named site keys, plus any key a plugin declares public in get_settings_defaults (e.g. printedparts_label_prefix, which the logged-out parts kiosk renders). Every other key answers 404 to an anonymous caller. |
GET /api/models/image/<filename> |
Serve a model image. |
GET /api/applications/image/<filename> |
Serve an application image (tiles render before login). |
GET /api/dashboard/navigation |
Public navigation tree. |
GET /api/dashboard/health |
Liveness / health probe. |
GET /api/plugins/enabled |
List enabled plugins (no claims used). |
GET /api/dashboarddefaults/display-role |
Display role resolution (see section 1). |
GET /api/dashboarddefaults/visitor-location |
Lobby business-unit resolution (see section 1). |
GET /api/employees/search, /lookup/<sso>, /lookup |
Employee directory lookups (kiosk / sign-in flows). |
GET /api/employees/photo/<filename> |
Serve an employee photo. |
GET /api/notifications (and /types, /<id>, /active, /calendar, /dashboard/summary, /employee/<sso>, /shopfloor) |
Read shop-floor notifications for the public display and kiosks. |
GET /api/slides/feed |
Slide feed for the lobby display and screensaver. |
GET /api/slides/img/<surface>/<filename> |
Serve a slide image. |
GET /api/printedparts/image/<filename> |
Serve a printed-part image. |
GET /api/printedparts/kiosk/item/<itemcode> |
Kiosk part lookup (deliberately open; a kiosk carries no JWT). |
POST /api/printedparts/kiosk/take |
Kiosk part checkout (deliberately open, per decision record). |
See also
docs/adr/README.md- architecture decision records index.docs/DEPLOY.md- deployment; the public-endpoint inventory in section 3 above is the site-exposure surface a deploy reviewer needs.docs/PLUGINS.md- the plugin catalog.- Contract docs: GE-ENFORCE-CLIENT.md, geenforce-api-cutover.md, COLLECTOR-INTEGRATION.md, PRINTER-INSTALLER.md, GE-ENFORCE-DISPLAY.md, IMPORT-API.md, CONTRACT-STABILITY.md.