Create a Custom Role
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Groups and projects are synonymous terms. Your {GROUP-ID} is the
same as your project ID. For existing groups, your group/project ID
remains the same. The resource and corresponding endpoints use the
term groups.
https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0
The Atlas Administration API uses HTTP Digest Authentication. Provide your Atlas username as the username and Atlas Administration API key as the password as part of the HTTP request.
This endpoint requires that the Atlas user has the Owner
role. To view the available Atlas users, click on
Users & Teams in the left-hand navigation.
For complete documentation on configuring API access for an Atlas project, see Get Started with the Atlas Administration API.
Syntax
POST /groups/{GROUP-ID}/customDBRoles/roles
Request Path Parameters
Parameter | Required/Optional | Description |
|---|---|---|
GROUP-ID | Required. | The unique identifier for the project. |
Request Query Parameters
This endpoint might use any of the HTTP request query parameters available to all Atlas Administration API resources. All of these are optional.
Name | Type | Necessity | Description | Default | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
pretty | boolean | Optional | Flag indicating whether the response body should be in a
prettyprint format. | false | ||||||
envelope | boolean | Optional | Flag indicating if Atlas should wrap the response in a JSON envelope. This option may be needed for some API clients. These clients cannot access the HTTP response headers or status code. To remediate this, set envelope=true in the query. For endpoints that return one result, the response body includes:
| false |
Request Body Parameters
Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
actions | array | Each object in the actions array represents an individual
privilege action
granted by the role. |
actions.action | string | Name of the privilege action. For a complete list of actions
available in the Atlas Administration API, see
Custom Role Actions. |
actions.resources | array | Contains information on where the action is granted. Each
object in the array either indicates a database and collection
on which the action is granted, or indicates that the
action is granted on the cluster resource. |
actions.resources.collection | string | Collection on which the action is granted. If this value is an
empty string, the action is granted on all collections within
the database specified in the Note This field is mutually exclusive with the
|
actions.resources.db | string | Database on which the action is granted. Note This field is mutually exclusive with the
|
actions.resources.cluster | boolean | Set to Note This field is mutually exclusive with the
|
inheritedRoles | array | Each object in the inheritedRoles array represents a
key-value pair indicating the inherited role and the
database on which the role is granted. |
inheritedRoles.db | string | |
inheritedRoles.role | string | Name of the inherited role. This can either be another
custom role or a
built-in role. |
roleName | string | Name of the custom role. Important The specified role name can only contain letters, digits, underscores, and dashes. Additionally, you cannot specify a role name which meets any of the following criteria:
|
Response Elements
This endpoint does not have response elements.
Example Request
Request
You must modify the following code block with the appropriate credentials and project ID.
curl --user '{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}' --digest \ --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \ --include \ --request POST "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/groups/{GROUP-ID}/customDBRoles/roles" --data ' { "actions" : [ { "action" : "CONN_POOL_STATS", "resources" : [ { "cluster" : true } ] }, { "action" : "COLL_STATS", "resources" : [ { "collection" : "", "db" : "staging" } ] } ], "inheritedRoles" : [ { "db" : "admin", "role" : "enableSharding" }, { "db" : "admin", "role" : "backup" } ], "roleName" : "ShardingAdmin" }'
Response
HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted { "actions" : [ { "action" : "CONN_POOL_STATS", "resources" : [ { "cluster" : true } ] }, { "action" : "COLL_STATS", "resources" : [ { "collection" : "", "db" : "staging" } ] } ], "inheritedRoles" : [ { "db" : "admin", "role" : "enableSharding" }, { "db" : "admin", "role" : "backup" } ], "roleName" : "ShardingAdmin" }