GDPR API

The GDPR API is a simple REST API to enable the automated deletion of assets that depict a certain person. Prerequisite is that the asset is already known to be a picture of this person, though some sort of ID, e.g. an internal employee-ID.

Properties

To be configured in {home}/appserver/conf/custom.properties

gdprApi.license

type: String, required: yes, default: -

The license key for the plugin (product: gdprApi), provided by brix.

gdprApi.staticToken

type: String, required: yes, default: -

The token that needs to be sent in the Authorization header for the request to be processed. You can also send it as a GET parameter token, but it's recommended that you use the header, e.g. Authorization: Bearer <your token>

gdprApi.textInfofieldId

type: long, required: no, default: -

The ID of the text information field that contains the person's ID. Currently only supports a single ID in the field.

gdprApi.numberInfofieldId

type: long, required: no, default: -

Alternatively, the ID of the number information field that contains the person's ID.

trashbin.nodeType

type: long, required: no, default: -

In case the trashbin feature is enabled, this plugin will automatically detect it and immediately remove an asset that has been scheduled for deletion from the trashbin as well .

Parameters

[GET] /gdpr/employee?id={id}

Searches all assets that contain the provided ID in either the text- or number-field configured above and returns it as a list.

{
    "status": 200,
    "count": 2,
    "deleted": 0,
    "assets":[
        {id: 42, name: "some asset.jpg"},
        {id: 1337, name: "some other asset.png"},
    ]
}

[DELETE] /gdpr/employee?id={id}

Deletes all assets that contain the provided ID in either the text- or number-field configured above and returns a count.

{
    "status": 200,
    "count": 2,
    "deleted": 2,
    "assets": null
}

Error Codes

• 400 - Bad Request (e.g. you did not supply an id=...)
• 403 - Forbidden (e.g. you forgot to provide Authorization)
• 404 - Not Found (e.g. no assets match the id=...)
• 500 - Internal Server Error

Compatibility Matrix

Release Notes

1.0.0

Release: 2022-05-19

Initial release