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  • 📥Backend API
    • Introduction
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      • Retrieve All Objects
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  • Partial Update on an Object
  • Parameters
  • Response
  • Example
  • Replacing an Object in its Entirety
  • Parameters
  • Response
  • Example
  1. Backend API
  2. API Reference

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Partial Update on an Object

This function updates a single object of the given type and with the given ID. If no object with the specified object exists yet, an error is returned.

The ID must be a valid , and must be lowercase. For example, 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 is a valid UUID.

When updating objects using the JourneyApps API, use the UUIDs returned by JourneyApps (in the id field of each object) when you

Relative URL
HTTP Request Method

/api/v4/backend-deployment-id/objects/model/object-id.json

PATCH

  • Replace model with the type of object that you wish to update (as defined in your app's Data Model).

  • Replace object-id with the ID of the specific object.

Parameters

The parameters must be specified in the same way as for creating new objects. Please refer to the same section in and to the section.

For updating more than one object in a request, refer to the section.

Response

The response includes the single updated object. The format of the object is the same as for .

Example

BASE-URL

The below examples contain a BASE-URL placeholder. Please refer to the section to get the base URL relevant to your deployment.

In this example, we update only the status field of a task object:

PATCH BASE-URL/api/v4/533bda53027894f69b001055/objects/tasks/198c990e-f1bf-11e1-8d7d-001cc01904e3.json

task[status]=1

The -X parameter to curl allows you to use a specific HTTP request method.

curl "BASE-URL/api/v4/533bda53027894f69b001055/objects/tasks/198c990e-f1bf-11e1-8d7d-001cc01904e3.json" \
    -u "533bda53027894f69b001055:7Ajj5htRY1uzw7b4w23V" \
    -X PATCH \
    -d "task[status]=1"
require 'rest-client'
journey = RestClient::Resource.new "BASE-URL/api/v4", "533bda53027894f69b001055", "7Ajj5htRY1uzw7b4w23V"
journey["533bda53027894f69b001055/objects/tasks/198c990e-f1bf-11e1-8d7d-001cc01904e3.json"].patch :task=>{:status=>1}

Response:

json
{
  "id": "198c990e-f1bf-11e1-8d7d-001cc01904e3",
  "type": "task",
  "updated_at": "2015-02-10T12:03:28Z",
  "display": "Task 1",
  "name": "Task 1",
  "instructions": null,
  "status": {
    "key": 1,
    "display": "Closed"
  },
  "category_id": null
}

Replacing an Object in its Entirety

This function replaces a single object of the given type with the given ID. If no object with the specified ID exists yet, a new object is created with the given ID.

Relative URL
HTTP Request Method

/api/v4/backend-deployment-id/objects/model/object-id.json

PUT

  • Replace model with the type of object that you wish to update (as defined in your app's Data Model).

  • Replace object-id with the ID of the specific object.

Parameters

Response

Example

BASE-URL

In this example, we set only the name field of a task object. The other fields are cleared.

PUT BASE-URL/api/v4/533bda53027894f69b001055/objects/tasks/198c990e-f1bf-11e1-8d7d-001cc01904e3.json

task[name]=Task%201

The -X parameter to curl allows you to use a specific HTTP request method.js

curl "BASE-URL/api/v4/533bda53027894f69b001055/objects/tasks/198c990e-f1bf-11e1-8d7d-001cc01904e3.json" \
    -u "533bda53027894f69b001055:7Ajj5htRY1uzw7b4w23V" \
    -X PUT \
    -d "task[name]=Task%201"
require 'rest-client'
journey = RestClient::Resource.new "BASE-URL/api/v4", "533bda53027894f69b001055", "7Ajj5htRY1uzw7b4w23V"
journey["533bda53027894f69b001055/objects/tasks/198c990e-f1bf-11e1-8d7d-001cc01904e3.json"].put :task=>{:name=>"Task 1"}

Response:

json
{
  "id": "198c990e-f1bf-11e1-8d7d-001cc01904e3",
  "type": "task",
  "updated_at": "2015-02-10T12:01:25Z",
  "display": "Task 1",
  "name": "Task 1",
  "instructions": null,
  "status": null,
  "category_id": null
}

The ID must be a valid , and must be lowercase. For example, 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000 is a valid UUID.

When updating objects using the JourneyApps API, use the UUIDs returned by JourneyApps (in the id field of each object) when you

The parameters must be specified in the same way as for creating new objects. Please refer to the same section in and to the section.

For updating more than one object in a request, refer to the section.

The response includes the single updated object. The format of the object is the same as for .

The below examples contain a BASE-URL placeholder. Please refer to the section to get the base URL relevant to your deployment.

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