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api	Generic Secret Backend - HTTP API	docs-http-secret-generic	This is the API documentation for the Vault Generic secret backend.

Generic Secret Backend HTTP API

This is the API documentation for the Vault Generic secret backend. For general information about the usage and operation of the Generic backend, please see the Vault Generic backend documentation.

This documentation assumes the Generic backend is mounted at the /secret path in Vault. Since it is possible to mount secret backends at any location, please update your API calls accordingly.

Read Secret

This endpoint retrieves the secret at the specified location.

Method	Path	Produces
GET	/secret/:path	200 application/json

Parameters

• path (string: <required>) – Specifies the path of the secret to read. This is specified as part of the URL.

Sample Request

$ curl \
    --header "X-Vault-Token: ..." \
    https://vault.rocks/v1/secret/my-secret

Sample Response

{
  "auth": null,
  "data": {
    "foo": "bar"
  },
  "lease_duration": 2764800,
  "lease_id": "",
  "renewable": false
}

Note: the lease_duration field (which on the CLI shows as refresh_interval) is advisory. No lease is created. This is a way for writers to indicate how often a given value shold be re-read by the client. See the Vault Generic backend documentation for more details.

List Secrets

This endpoint returns a list of key names at the specified location. Folders are suffixed with /. The input must be a folder; list on a file will not return a value. Note that no policy-based filtering is performed on keys; do not encode sensitive information in key names. The values themselves are not accessible via this command.

Method	Path	Produces
LIST	/secret/:path	200 application/json

Parameters

• path (string: <required>) – Specifies the path of the secrets to list. This is specified as part of the URL.

Sample Request

$ curl \
    --header "X-Vault-Token: ..." \
    --request LIST \
    https://vault.rocks/v1/secret/my-secret

Sample Response

The example below shows output for a query path of secret/ when there are secrets at secret/foo and secret/foo/bar; note the difference in the two entries.

{
  "auth": null,
  "data": {
    "keys": ["foo", "foo/"]
  },
  "lease_duration": 2764800,
  "lease_id": "",
  "renewable": false
}

Create/Update Secret

This endpoint stores a secret at the specified location. If the value does not yet exist, the calling token must have an ACL policy granting the create capability. If the value already exists, the calling token must have an ACL policy granting the update capability.

Method	Path	Produces
POST	/secret/:path	204 (empty body)
PUT	/secret/:path	204 (empty body)

Parameters

• path (string: <required>) – Specifies the path of the secrets to create/update. This is specified as part of the URL.

• :key (string: "") – Specifies a key, paired with an associated value, to be held at the given location. Multiple key/value pairs can be specified, and all will be returned on a read operation. A key called ttl will trigger some special behavior; see the Vault Generic backend documentation for details.

Sample Payload

{
  "foo": "bar",
  "zip": "zap"
}

Sample Request

$ curl \
    --header "X-Vault-Token: ..." \
    --request POST \
    --data @payload.json \
    https://vault.rocks/v1/secret/my-secret

Delete Secret

This endpoint deletes the secret at the specified location.

Method	Path	Produces
DELETE	/secret/:path	204 (empty body)

Parameters

• path (string: <required>) – Specifies the path of the secret to delete. This is specified as part of the URL.

Sample Request

$ curl \
    --header "X-Vault-Token: ..." \
    --request DELETE \
    https://vault.rocks/v1/secret/my-secret