Application Programming Interface Guide > Introduction > Groups of Operations > Utility Operations
 
Utility Operations
Utility operations can be found in two places in the resource tree:
• Desktop/Data Services/Web Services/system/util/
• localhost/services/webservices/system/util/
Utility operations are grouped into three branches:
• The common Branch
• The security Branch
• The session Branch
The common Branch
The common branch of utility operations lets Web Services cancel a server task:
• cancelServerTask
The security Branch
The security branch of utility operations lets Web Services clients manage the following aspects of security:
• General settings
— getGeneralSettings
— updateGeneralSettings
• Login module
— addLoginModule
— getAvailableLoginModuleNames
— getLoginModule
— getLoginModuleDefaultProperties
— getLoginModuleList
— removeLoginModule
— updateLoginModule
— updateLoginModuleList
• Principal mapping
— addPrincipalMapping
— getPrincipalMapping
— getPrincipalMappingList
— removePrincipalMapping
— updatePrincipalMapping
• Row-based security
— rbsAssignFilterPolicy
— rbsDeleteFilterPolicy
— rbsGetFilterPolicy
— rbsGetFilterPolicyList
— rbsIsEnabled
— rbsSetEnabled
— rbsWriteFilterPolicy
The session Branch
The session branch of utility operations lets Web Services clients manage sessions.
The operations in this branch are:
• beginSession
• beginTransaction
• closeSession
• closeTransaction
• getServerInfo