HTTP API reference

The machine-readable OpenAPI 3.1 document is checked against every published API route during the PHP test suite.

All paths below are relative to the prefix used when importing SoFinder routes, for example /sofinder. The API is intended for same-origin, authenticated application clients. It is not an anonymous object-storage API.

Protocol conventions

• Send Accept: application/json for JSON endpoints.
• Send the Symfony session cookie with every request.
• Every mutation requires X-CSRF-TOKEN: <token>. JSON mutations also use Content-Type: application/json.
• Paths are logical /-separated paths relative to a configured resource root. Do not send absolute paths, .. or storage URLs.
• Timestamps are Unix seconds; byte counts are integers.
• Clients must ignore unknown response fields and capability flags.

Successful JSON response:

{"success":true,"data":{"entry":{"path":"manuals/start.pdf"}}}

Failed JSON response:

{"success":false,"error":{"code":"conflict","message":"The destination already exists."}}

HTTP status is authoritative. 429 responses include Retry-After: 2. A batch request can return HTTP 200 with individual failed results.

Shared objects

Entry

{
  "path": "images/photo.jpg",
  "name": "photo.jpg",
  "directory": false,
  "size": 184231,
  "modifiedAt": 1787529600,
  "mimeType": "image/jpeg",
  "url": "https://cdn.example.com/images/photo.jpg",
  "capabilities": {"read": true, "rename": true, "delete": false}
}

url can be null. A non-null value may be public, authenticated proxy or a host application route. Capabilities are hints; the server authorizes the final operation again.

Asset Reference 1.0

Upload and picker responses may additionally contain asset, following the published Schema. The legacy entry remains present. With asset_catalog.enabled, GET /api/assets/resolve resolves or lazily registers a resource/path, and GET /api/assets/{id} retrieves the same workspace-scoped record. PATCH /api/assets/{id}/metadata updates alt, title and shared tags; send the returned metadata version for optimistic concurrency.

Resource

GET /api/config returns resource policy fields including name, publicUrl, allowedExtensions, allowedMimeTypes, maxSize, readOnly, quotaBytes, usedBytes, name/depth/image/batch/archive limits, deliveryMode, animatedImagePolicy and:

{
  "storageCapabilities": {
    "search": true,
    "sort": true,
    "cursorPagination": false,
    "atomicMove": true,
    "nativeCopy": true,
    "recoverableDelete": true,
    "publicUrl": true
  }
}

Discovery and listing

GET /api/assets/search

Searches across authorized resources and nested folders by file name, asset title, localized/default alternative text and shared tags. Optional filters cover resource, path scope, type, extension, size and modification date. The response includes pagination, facets, scanned count and a truncated flag so callers never mistake a bounded scan for a complete index.

Asset usage and deletion preflight

• GET /api/assets/{id}/usages lists authorized host references.
• PUT /api/assets/{id}/usages/{referenceId} idempotently registers a bounded {label,url,context} reference.
• DELETE /api/assets/{id}/usages/{referenceId} removes the registered reference.
• POST /api/assets/delete-check accepts {resource,paths} and returns safe, the total reference count and affected assets. It reports risk; it does not silently override the actor's explicit delete decision.

Private asset access sessions

POST /api/assets/access-sessions accepts private proxy assetIds and optional ttl, then returns version-bound inline URLs and an expiry. DELETE /api/assets/access-sessions/{id} revokes the entire session. Changed, expired, revoked or unlisted assets cannot be consumed through the bearer URL.

GET /api/config

Returns apiVersion, visible resources, plugin descriptors, image presets, effective image capabilities and UI defaults. The current API version is 1.0.

GET /api/capabilities

Returns the versioned machine-readable names for entry operations, storage capabilities, host-controlled optional features, plugin slots/selections and picker kinds. Contract tests compare runtime discovery output with the published JSON Schemas and a reviewed key snapshot.

GET /api/security/status

Returns malware scanner readiness, pending/passed/quarantined/failed counts and bounded recent history. Access is restricted by malware_scanning.status_roles.

GET /api/entries

Query parameters:

Name	Default	Meaning
resource	Files	Configured resource name.
path	empty	Directory to list.
search	empty	Name term, or comma-separated tag terms when searchMode=tags.
searchMode	name	name or tags.
sort	name	name, size, type (MIME type) or modified.
direction	asc	asc or desc.
offset	0	Offset for adapters that support it.
limit	100	Requested page size, bounded to 10–500.
cursor	absent	Opaque cursor returned by the previous page.

Response data contains entries, total, path, offset, limit, sort, direction, nextCursor, directory capabilities and storageCapabilities. Cursor adapters may return total: null. Treat nextCursor as opaque and never construct or modify it.

Folder and entry mutations

POST /api/folders

{"resource":"Files","path":"manuals","name":"2026"}

Returns {entry} with HTTP 201.

PATCH /api/entries/rename

{"resource":"Files","path":"manuals/draft.pdf","name":"guide.pdf","overwrite":false}

name is a name, not a destination path. overwrite requires independent authorization.

POST /api/entries/copy and POST /api/entries/move

{
  "resource":"Files",
  "path":"manuals/guide.pdf",
  "destination":"archive/2026",
  "overwrite":false,
  "autoRename":true
}

destination is a directory. When autoRename is true and overwrite is false, SoFinder chooses a conflict-safe name.

DELETE /api/entries

{"resource":"Files","path":"manuals/old.pdf"}

Returns trash, which is null for permanent-delete adapters or an object containing the trashed item and automatic-purge totals.

POST /api/entries/batch

{
  "operation":"copy",
  "resource":"Files",
  "paths":["a.pdf","folder"],
  "destination":"archive",
  "overwrite":false,
  "autoRename":true
}

operation is copy, move or delete. Paths are deduplicated and cannot contain both a folder and its descendant. Response:

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "operation": "copy",
    "total": 2,
    "succeeded": 1,
    "failed": 1,
    "purgedItems": 0,
    "purgedBytes": 0,
    "results": [
      {"path":"a.pdf","success":true,"entry":{}},
      {"path":"folder","success":false,"error":{"code":"access_denied","message":"Access denied."}}
    ]
  }
}

POST /api/entries/batch-rename

{"resource":"Files","renames":[{"path":"draft-a.pdf","name":"report-1.pdf"},{"path":"draft-b.pdf","name":"report-2.pdf"}]}

Paths and destination names must be unique. Extensions remain immutable and every item is authorized and validated independently. The response uses the same per-item result shape as other batch operations.

Uploads

POST /api/uploads

Send multipart/form-data fields resource, path, upload and optional overwrite=1 or autoRename=1. Returns {entry} with HTTP 201. When autoRename=1 and overwrite is false, a conflict is stored with the first available CKFinder-style suffix such as photo(1).jpg. The server validates actual bytes rather than trusting client size or MIME metadata.

Chunk upload

Use POST /api/uploads/chunks with multipart fields:

• resource, path, name and optional overwrite=1 or autoRename=1;
• uploadId, a 16–80 character URL-safe identifier;
• zero-based index, fixed total, and file field chunk.

An incomplete response is {"complete":false}. The final chunk returns {"complete":true,"entry":{...}} with HTTP 201. Session metadata is immutable; retries must use the same resource, path, name, overwrite, auto-rename and total.

• GET /api/uploads/chunks/{id} returns id, total, received indexes, complete, resource, path, name, overwrite and updatedAt for the current actor.
• DELETE /api/uploads/chunks/{id} cancels and discards the session; it requires CSRF.

Sessions expire after 24 hours. Clients may retry missing indexes, but must not upload beyond the resource file-size and maximum-chunk limits.

Content delivery

GET /api/download?resource=Files&path=manual.pdf

Authorizes read and returns an attachment. Folders return invalid_type.

GET /api/content?resource=Images&path=photo.jpg&disposition=inline

Returns private authenticated content with ETag, Last-Modified, conditional request and a single byte Range. Only safe browser raster MIME types can be inline; every other type is forced to attachment. Invalid or unsatisfiable ranges return 416.

Temporary signed URLs

GET /api/signed-url?resource=Private&path=manual.pdf&ttl=300 first authorizes the current user and returns {url,expiresAt}. The URL targets /signed/{token} and may be opened without a session only when the host firewall explicitly grants that route public access. Tokens are HMAC protected, work only with delivery_mode: proxy, and are bound to the file size and modified time. Expired or replaced files return 410; token tampering returns 403.

GET /api/preview/text?resource=Files&path=readme.txt

Returns at most the first 256 KiB of an authorized UTF-8 text, JSON, XML or YAML file as JSON {content,truncated,mimeType,size}. Content is rendered as text by the bundled UI and is never treated as HTML.

GET /api/preview/document?resource=Files&path=manual.pdf

Returns an authorized inline PDF. A cached Office conversion is returned directly; an uncached Office file in asynchronous mode returns HTTP 202 with document_preview_pending and Retry-After.

• POST /api/preview/document/jobs with {"resource":"Files","path":"manual.docx","retry":false} creates or reuses the actor-scoped, file-version-scoped conversion job.
• GET /api/preview/document/jobs/{id} returns queued, running, ready, failed or expired, plus retryAfter and the preview URL when ready.

See PDF and Office preview for worker and shared-cache requirements.

GET /api/checksum?resource=Files&path=manual.pdf

Returns {algorithm:"sha256",checksum,size} for authorized files up to 512 MiB. The checksum is calculated from stored bytes and does not expose the adapter path.

Recycle bin

• GET /api/trash?resource=Files&offset=0&limit=50&search=term returns items, page fields and usedItems, usedBytes, maxItems, maxBytes.
• POST /api/trash/{id}/restore body: {"resource":"Files","conflict":"cancel"}. Conflict is cancel, rename or overwrite.
• DELETE /api/trash/{id} body: {"resource":"Files"} permanently removes the item.

Trash IDs are actor-private 32-character hexadecimal values. Overwrite restore requires overwrite; missing parent folders return restore_parent_missing.

Images

• GET /api/images/thumbnail?resource=Images&path=photo.jpg&width=240&height=180 returns a private cached thumbnail with ETag.
• GET /api/images/info?resource=Images&path=photo.jpg returns decoded width and height.
• GET /api/images/variant?resource=Images&path=photo.jpg&width=640&format=webp&v=... returns an authorization-preserving, whitelist-bounded responsive variant when enabled.
• PATCH /api/images/edit applies one to ten ordered actions.
• PATCH /api/images/batch applies the same actions to 1–100 paths and returns per-item success/error records.

{
  "resource":"Images",
  "path":"photo.jpg",
  "actions":[
    {"type":"crop","x":10,"y":20,"width":800,"height":600},
    {"type":"resize","width":400,"height":300,"quality":88},
    {"type":"rotate","degrees":90}
  ],
  "save":{"mode":"copy","name":"photo-card.jpg"}
}

Action types are crop, resize, rotate, preset, optimize, watermarkText and watermarkImage; complete bounds are in image-actions.schema.json. save.mode is copy or overwrite, and format conversion requires copy mode. Legacy transform/crop bodies remain until the advertised Sunset and return deprecation headers.

ZIP and metadata

POST /api/archive body:

{"resource":"Files","paths":["manual.pdf","screenshots"]}

Returns application/zip named sofinder-download.zip; it is limited by resource selection, recursive entry and byte policies.

GET /api/metadata?resource=Files returns favorites, up to 12 file-or-folder quickAccess paths, compatible quickAccessEntries display metadata (name, directory, mimeType, exists), tags keyed by path, and up to 50 recent {path,touchedAt} entries. Missing shortcuts remain visible with exists: false until the user opens or removes them. Use PATCH /api/metadata to update with:

{"resource":"Files","path":"manual.pdf","action":"favorite","favorite":true}
{"resource":"Files","path":"manuals","action":"quick_access","pinned":true}
{"resource":"Files","path":"manual.pdf","action":"tags","tags":["docs","approved"]}
{"resource":"Files","path":"manual.pdf","action":"touch"}

When host configuration features.quick_access_files is disabled, adding a file returns 422 quick_access_file_disabled; folders remain supported and existing file shortcuts remain removable.

Clients may send action: "forget" after an authorized lookup confirms that a recent path disappeared outside SoFinder; this removes that path from favorites, tags and recent state. When the host disables a feature, its dedicated operation returns feature_disabled with HTTP 404 and the config response marks it false under featureAvailability.

An entry accepts at most 10 unique tags of 1–30 visible characters.

CKEditor compatibility upload

POST /compat/ckeditor4/upload accepts multipart field upload. Query parameters include type, selection, currentFolder, _token, CKEditorFuncNum and optional responseType=json. Name conflicts are auto-renamed unless ckeditor4.overwrite_on_upload is explicitly enabled. See the CKEditor 4 guide for callback and JSON responses.

Common status and error codes

The exhaustive code/status/category catalog is error-codes.json and CI checks it against literal server exceptions.

Status	Representative codes	Client behavior
400	invalid_json, invalid_path, invalid_type, invalid_upload_chunk	Fix request syntax or values.
401/403	access_denied, read_only	Authenticate or request the required resource/operation permission.
404	not_found, upload_session_not_found, trash_disabled, unknown_image_preset	Refresh state; do not retry unchanged.
409	conflict, upload_session_mismatch, restore_parent_missing	Ask for rename/overwrite or recreate the parent.
413	file_too_large, quota_exceeded, batch_limit_exceeded, archive_limit_exceeded, recursive_limit_exceeded	Reduce the operation or change policy.
415	invalid_extension, invalid_mime_type, unsafe_file_content, invalid_image, unsupported_image	Choose an allowed, valid format.
416	invalid_range	Correct or remove the Range header.
422	invalid_tags, invalid_crop, invalid_image_dimensions, storage_search_unsupported	Correct semantic input or use supported capabilities.
429	rate_limit_exceeded, concurrency_limit_exceeded	Wait for Retry-After, then retry with backoff.
500/503/507	storage, quota, trash, image or session availability failures	Preserve the machine code, stop automatic mutation retries and alert operations.

Never display raw internal exception traces, and never log session cookies, CSRF tokens, signed URLs, credentials or private file content.