This is a pure C++ library that interfaces with Atlassian Crowd for Authentication and Authorization. You can use this library to interface your applications with the Crowd Identity Management server at http://www.atlassian.com/software/crowd/overview

It implments most of the SOAP API calls exposed by Crowd for authentication, and managing users and groups. Some of the features missing currently are:

• Roles (depreciated in Crowd)
• Searching for Groups (Planned)
• Cacheing (Planned)
• SSO based on Cookies/Headers (Planned)

You can view the details of the Crowd SOAP API here: https://docs.atlassian.com/atlassian-crowd/latest/com/atlassian/crowd/service/soap/server/SecurityServer.html

The API is a simple Single Static (optional) class and it handles all the remote calls automatically. It works synchronous manor, so all calls complete, and can be configured to either throw exceptions of failures (like Authentication Failures, or communication failures) to returning status codes.

The API allows you to authenticate users, create/delete/modify users and groups and authenticate your application. No Server Side code is necessary to support this.

Installation is straight forward on the crowd side, just create a new "generic application" in crowd, with a appname, password and the IP address filled in. Assign your directories (the first directory will be where new users/groups are created) and then in the CrowdClient api, call CrowdClient::Setup(, , );

A Sample Application is included, called crowdclient, that will exercise all the SOAP API, so you can refer to that for further information on how to operate the API.

Please file Bug Reports, enhancements etc at http://jira.my-ho.st/jira/browse/LCC