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Document Id

Updated: October 14, 2024

Document CRUD based on a document id.

Create a Document

POST /id/PARENT_DOC_ID

Path Parameters

Parameter Name Value Description
PARENT_DOC_ID string The parent document id.

Request Body

Supply a document entity representing the document to create with the following properties:

Property Name Value Description Notes
entity-type string Value: the fixed string "document".
name string The document name, used as path segment.
type string The document type.
properties object A collection of key-value pairs of document properties to set. Optional

You don't need to specify the uid property since the server will create a document id. It will be part of the response body of a GET request on the created document.

Response

If successful, returns a document entity representing the created document.

Status Codes

  • 201 Created - Success.
  • 404 Not Found - Document with the given PARENT_DOC_ID path parameter not found.

Get a Document

GET /id/DOC_ID

Path Parameters

Parameter Name Value Description
DOC_ID string The document id.

Response

If successful, returns a document entity representing the document with the given DOC_ID path parameter.

Status Codes

  • 200 OK - Success.
  • 404 Not Found - Document with the given DOC_ID path parameter not found.

Update a Document

PUT /id/DOC_ID

Path Parameters

Parameter Name Value Description
DOC_ID string The document id.

Request Body

Supply a document entity representing the document to update with the following properties:

Property Name Value Description Notes
entity-type string Value: the fixed string "document".
properties object A collection of key-value pairs of document properties to update. Optional

The uid property is not required but is accepted by the server. This is useful since it is part of the response body of a GET request, which you might want to reuse as a base request body for a PUT request by adapting only the properties to update.

Response

If successful, returns a document entity representing the updated document.

Status Codes

  • 200 OK - Success.
  • 404 Not Found - Document with the given DOC_ID path parameter not found.

Delete a Document

If successful, deletes the document with the given DOC_ID path parameter.

This request performs a permanent delete, it doesn't put the document in the trash. 

DELETE /id/DOC_ID

Path Parameters

Parameter Name Value Description
DOC_ID string The document id.

Status Codes

  • 204 No Content - Success.
  • 404 Not Found - Document with the given DOC_ID path parameter not found.