POST New Category

Overview

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The following table contains important information about the POST method in regards to posting a new category.

POST New Category
Method	POST
URL or Endpoint	/api/projects/projectId/categories
Headers	Authorization
Parameters	projectId
Body	name, entityId

The description of the URL parameter is as follows:

projectId URL Parameter
URL Parameter Name	projectId
Mandatory	Yes
Type	string
Description	Unique Id of the project.

Request Body

{
  "name": "art",
  "entityId": 30
}

Information about the fields that appear when you post the request body are displayed in the table below.

Field Name	Type	Description
name	string	The name of the category you want to create.
entityId	integer($int32)	The entity id you assign to the category.

Response

{
  "success": true,
  "errors": [],
  "messages": [
    "Category added successfully!"
  ],
  "result": {
    "id": 1007,
    "name": "art",
    "entityId": 30,
    "deleted": false
  },
  "resultInfo": null,
  "statusCode": 200
}

Information about the fields that appear when you receive the response are displayed in the table below.

Field Name	Type	Description
success	bool	If the response is successful it will return true. Otherwise will return false.
errors	array[]	Indicates if there was an error.
messages	array[]	Returns the response message from back-end.
result	array[Object]	Returns the response object.
id	integer($int32)	The id of the category.
name	string	The name of the category.
entityId	integer($int32)	The id of the entity.
isDeleted	bool	Indicates whether the category is deleted.
resultInfo	string	Returns extra information about the result.
statusCode	integer($int32)	Returns the HTTP Status Code.

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 or 201 response.

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors:

• HTTP Status Code 400: Bad Request

• HTTP Status Code 401: Unauthorized

• HTTP Status Code 403: Forbidden

• HTTP Status Code 404: Result Not Found

• HTTP Status Code 500: Internal Server Error

• HTTP Status Code 503: Backend Fetch Failed