Create Relation

Overview

register Relation

OData Restrictions

• Accept in the request header is ignored
• Always handles Content-Type in the request header as application/json
• Only accepts the request body in the JSON format
• Only application/json is supported for Content-Type in the request header and the JSON format for the response body
• $formatQuery options ignored

Required Privileges

social

Request

Request URL

{CellURL}__ctl/Relation

Request Method

POST

Request Query

Query Name	Overview	Effective Value	Required	Notes
p_cookie_peer	Cookie Authentication Value	The cookie authentication value returned from the server during authentication	No	Valid only if no Authorization header specified Specify this when cookie authentication information is to be used

Request Header

Header Name	Overview	Effective Value	Required	Notes
X-HTTP-Method-Override	Method override function	User-defined	No	If you specify this value when requesting with the POST method, the specified value will be used as a method.
X-Override	Header override function	${OverwrittenHeaderName}:${Value}	No	Overwrite normal HTTP header value. To overwrite multiple headers, specify multiple X-Override headers.
X-Personium-RequestKey	RequestKey field value output in the event log	Single-byte alphanumeric characters, hyphens ("-"), and underscores ("_") Maximum of 128 characters	No	When not specified, default value given with ${4 digits}_${22 digits} Base64url characters format representing an UUID for each request

OData Request Header

Header Name	Overview	Effective Value	Required	Notes
Authorization	Specifies authentication information in the OAuth 2.0 format	Bearer {AccessToken}	No	* Authentication tokens are the tokens acquired using the Authentication Token Acquisition API

OData Create Request Header

Header Name	Overview	Effective Value	Required	Notes
Content-Type	Specifies the request body format	application/json	No	[application/json] by default
Accept	Specifies the response body format	application/json	No	[application/json] by default

Request Body

Item Name	Overview	Effective Value	Required	Notes
Name	Relation Name	Number of digits: 1 - 128 Character type: Single-byte alphanumeric characters, hyphens ("-"), and underscores ("_"), plus, : However, the string cannot start with a underscore ("_") or colon (:)	Yes
_Box.Name	Box name to be related	Number of digits: 1 - 128 Character type: Single-byte alphanumeric characters, hyphens ("-"), and underscores ("_") However, the string cannot start with a single-byte hyphen ("-") or underscore ("_") Description: Specify Name of Box registered with Box registration API Specify null if not associated with specific Box	No

Request Sample

{
  "Name": "relation1",
  "_Box.Name": "box1" 
}

Response

Response Code

201

Response Header

Item Name	Overview	Notes
Access-Control-Allow-Origin	Cross domain communication permission header	Return value fixed to "*"
X-Personium-Version	API version that the request is processed	Version of the API used to process the request

OData Response Header

Item Name	Overview	Notes
Content-Type	Format of data to be returned
Location	URL to the resource that was created
DataServiceVersion	OData version
ETag	Resource version information

Response Body

The response is a JSON object, the correspondence between the key (name) and type defined in the object (subobject) and the value are as follows

Object	Item Name	Data Type	Notes
Root	d	object	Object{1}
{1}	results	array	Array object {2}
{2}	__metadata	object	Object{3}
{3}	uri	string	URL to the resource that was created
{3}	etag	string	Etag value
{2}	__published	string	Creation date (UNIX time)
{2}	__updated	string	Update date (UNIX time)
{1}	__count	string	Get number of results in $inlinecount query

Relation specific response body

Object	Item Name	Data Type	Notes
{3}	type	string	CellCtl.Relation
{2}	Name	string	Relation name
{2}	_Box.Name	string	Relational Box Name

Error Messages

Refer to Error Message List

Response Sample

{
  "d": {
    "results": {
      "__metadata": {
        "uri": "https://cell1.unit1.example/__ctl/Relation(Name='relation1'
,_Box.Name='box1')",
        "etag": "W/\"1-1486538244016\"",
        "type": "CellCtl.Relation"
      },
      "Name": "relation1",
      "_Box.Name": "box1",
      "__published": "/Date(1486538244016)/",
      "__updated": "/Date(1486538244016)/"
    }
  }
}

cURL Command

curl "https://cell1.unit1.example/__ctl/Relation" -X POST -i \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer AA~PBDc...(snip)...FrTjA' -H 'Accept: application/json' \
-d '{ "Name":"relation1", "_Box.Name": "box1" }'