About the application programming interface
The application programming interface (API) directives within the configuration file enable plug-in routines that are called during specific steps within the request processing workflow. These plug-in routines can replace or run in addition to built-in routines.
Associated directives
Following are the API directives:
- Authentication — Customize the Authentication step
- Authorization — Customize the Authorization step
- Error — Customize the Error step
- Log — Customize the Log step
- Midnight — Specify the API plugin used to archive logs
- NameTrans — Customize the Name Translation step
- ObjectType — Customize the Object Type step
- PostAuth — Customize the PostAuth step
- PostExit — Customize the PostExit step
- PreExit — Customize the PreExit step
- ServerInit — Customize the Server Initialization step
- ServerTerm — Customize the Server Termination step
- Service — Customize the Service step
- Transmogrifier — Customize the Data Manipulation step
- TransmogrifiedWarning — Send warning message to client
Configuration and Administration forms
The following Configuration and Administration form edits the values of the associated directives:
- Server Configuration –> Request Processing –> API Request Processing