Ada: get API URL from a WebDAV door and vice versa

[onnozweers]

There are techniques to get the API address from a WebDAV door, and vice versa. We could use this in Ada. Then a user would be able to specify a WebDAV SURL and does not need to know where the API is; Ada could figure that out. I think this is already used in gfal-bringonline (if you provide it with a WebDAV URL). Downside: this is not configured by default; it depends on the dCache instance.

Finding API through WebDAV door:

$ curl -s -k https://webdav.grid.surfsara.nl:2882/.well-known/wlcg-tape-rest-api | jq .endpoints[0].uri
"https://dcacheview.grid.surfsara.nl:22882/api/v1/tape"

Finding WebDAV door through the API:

$ curl --fail --silent --capath /etc/grid-security/certificates/ --cert $X509_USER_PROXY --cacert $X509_USER_PROXY -H 'Accept: application/json' https://dcacheview.grid.surfsara.nl:22884/scripts/config.js | jq -r '."dcache-view.endpoints.webdav"'
https://dcacheview.grid.surfsara.nl:2884/

[onnozweers]

A backup way to find doors through the API: use the /api/v1/doors API call (and select from the list based on the properties).

This might come in handy when dcache-view.endpoints.webdav is not defined.