Getting Started
Welcome to Strongdoc Getting Started guide. Strongdoc is a service that makes data privacy simple to implement in your own services.
Following the instructions in this guide will properly equip you to start using the Strongdoc API.
Prerequisites
There is only one prerequisite, and it is that you have your preferred language installed on your device.
- Go
- NodeJS
- Java
- Python
Install Go on your OS: https://golang.org/doc/install
Link to API Github Repository: https://github.com/overnest/strongdoc-go-sdk
Downloading and Setting Up the Strongdoc Go API
The API is available as a Go Module. To use it, run
go get github.com/overnest/strongdoc-go-sdk
Then, import it at the top of your files:
The user can initialize a singleton StrongDoc client as such:
Note that since this is a singleton, and the resulting client can be retrieved as such:
Link to API Github Repository: https://github.com/overnest/strongdoc-go-sdk
Setting up your first account
Before logging in, ensure that you have an account. If you do not have one, what you need to do depends on your role in your organization:
A. Regular Users
If you are a regular user, your organization administrator must help you set up an account. They should give you:
- A
userID
- A
password
- The
orgID
belonging to your organization
B. Organization Administrator
For the first administrator of the organization, the administrator account is created with the organization. Subsequent administrator accounts need to be provisioned by existing administrators of the organization.