Send Requests

Use the following guidelines when sending requests using the Oracle Access Management (OAM) OAuth REST API.

URL Structure

Access the OAM OAuth REST resources using the following URL structure:

https://<subdomain>.<domain>.com:<port>/<resource-path>

Where:

• <subdomain.domain>.com:<port> is the host and port where OAM is running.

• <resource-path> is the relative path that defines the resource.

Supported Methods

You can perform basic CRUD operations (create, read, update, and delete) on OAM Service using standard HTTP method requests, as summarized in the following table.

HTTP Method	Description
GET	Retrieves one or more complete or partial resources.
POST	Creates new resources or creates search requests, depending on the endpoint.
PUT	Modifies a resource by replacing existing attributes with a specified set of replacement attributes (replace). PUT must not be used to create new resources.
PATCH	Modifies a resource with a set of client-specified changes (partial updates).
DELETE	Deletes a resource.
OPTIONS	Default jersey support.
HEAD	Default jersey support.

Media Types

The following media types are supported by the OAM Service REST API:

• application/json

• application/xml

Supported Headers

The OAM Service REST API supports the following headers that may be passed in the header section of the HTTP request or response.

Header	Description	Example
Content-Type	Media type of the body of the request. Required for POST and PUT requests.	Content-Type: application/json
X-Response-Time	The time in milliseconds to process the request.	X-Response-Time: 1000
Accept	Content-Types that are acceptable for the response
Authorization	Authentication credentials for HTTP authentication
Origin	Initiates a request for cross origin resource sharing (CORS)