How do I properly configure Xray + ShadowSocks with dynamic users management?

[talentlessguy]

Hello,
I'm trying to set up an Xray server where I could dynamically add shadowsocks servers, as inbounds, but I'm a bit lost in the documentation and not sure how to do that.

This is my starting config (config.json):

{
    "log": {
        "loglevel": "debug"
    },
    "inbounds": [],
    "outbounds": [
        {
            "protocol": "freedom"
        }
    ]
}

Then I'm trying to add an inbound shadowsocks server and I'm getting an error

$ xray api adi inbound.json
failed to dial 127.0.0.1:8080

These are the contents of inbound.json (don't mind the password, i'm just testing rn):

{
        "inbounds": [
                {
                  "port": 8388,
                  "protocol": "shadowsocks",
                  "settings": {
                    "method": "aes-256-gcm",
                    "password": "mypassword",
                    "network": "tcp,udp"
                  },
                  "tag": "shadowsocks-inbound"
                }

        ]
}

Why does it fail to dial? I don't have anything running on 8080:

$ ss -tuln | grep 8080

[talentlessguy]

nevermind i forgot to add api directive:

{
    "log": {
        "loglevel": "debug"
    },
    "api": {
        "tag": "api",
        "listen": "127.0.0.1:8080",
        "services": ["HandlerService", "LoggerService", "StatsService"]
      },
    "inbounds": [],
    "outbounds": [
        {
            "protocol": "freedom"
        }
    ]
}