CAMARA Device Swap API
Detect whether the device (IMEI) associated with a phone number has recently changed. Complements SIM Swap as a fraud signal — a fresh device or SIM behind a known phone number can indicate account takeover.
Detect whether the device (IMEI) associated with a phone number has recently changed. Complements SIM Swap as a fraud signal — a fresh device or SIM behind a known phone number can indicate account takeover.
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
title: Device Swap
description: |
This API allows to check the last time that the phone (device) - phone number association has changed
# Introduction
The Device Swap API performs real-time checks on the last Device Swap event, providing real-time information about whether the SIM card associated with a user's phone number has been transferred to a different physical device.
Device Swap information can be invaluable for enhancing security, fraud detection, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements in various applications, apart from providing useful information of device upgrade trends in user segments.
This API is used by an application to get information about a mobile line's latest Device Swap date. It can be easily integrated and used through this secured API and allows API consumers to get this information in an easy and secured way. The API provides management of 2 endpoints answering 2 distinct questions:
* When did the last Device Swap occur?
* Has a Device Swap occurred during the last n hours?
# Relevant terms and definitions
**Device Swap:** A Device Swap is a process in which the association between a user's mobile phone number (MSISDN) and a device (IMEI) is created for the first time or changes for any reasons.
# API Functionality
The Device Swap API provides a programmable interface for developers and other users (capabilities consumers) to request the last date of a device swap performed on the mobile line, or, to check whether a device swap has been performed during a past period.
The API provides 2 operations:
- POST retrieve-date: Provides timestamp of latest device swap, if any, for a given phone number.
- If no swap has been performed and the network operator supports unlimited DeviceSwap monitoring timeframe, the API will return the first phone number usage in a device (the timestamp of the first time that the phone number was connected to the network, it is, the first time that the SIM is installed in a device).
- If the latest device swap date (or the first phone number usage, if no device swap) cannot be communicated due to local regulations (or Network Operator internal privacy policies) preventing the safekeeping of the information for longer than the stated period, a `null` value will be returned. Optionally, a `monitoredPeriod` could be provided to indicate monitored time frame (in days) supported by the Network Operator. In this case the response must be treated as "there were no device swap events during 'monitoredPeriod'. Either the parameter is optional, it is recommended to support it in DeviceSwap implementations.
- POST check: Checks if device swap has been performed during a past period (defined in the request with 'maxAge' attribute) for a given phone number, the API will return boolean response (true/false), indicating that the device has been swapped or not in the specified period. In case the phone number has never been installed in a device, or no data is available in the operators records (e.g. database error), API will return a 422 error.
# Identifying the phone number from the access token
This API requires the API consumer to identify a phone number as the subject of the API. There is 2 ways to retrieve it depending on the authorization flow used:
- When the API is invoked using a two-legged access token, the phone number will be identified from the optional `phoneNumber` identifier, which therefore MUST be provided.
- When a three-legged access token is used however, this optional `phoneNumber` identifier MUST NOT be provided, as the phone number will be uniquely identified from the access token.
This approach simplifies API usage for API consumers using a three-legged access token to invoke the API by relying on the information that is associated with the access token and was identified during the authentication process.
## Error handling:
- If the phoneNumber cannot be identified from the access token and the optional `phoneNumber` identifier is not included in the request, then the server will return an error with the `422 MISSING_IDENTIFIER` error code.
- If the phoneNumber can be identified from the access token and the optional `phoneNumber` identifier is also included in the request, then the server will return an error with the `422 UNNECESSARY_IDENTIFIER` error code. This will be the case even if the same device is identified by these two methods, as the server is unable to make this comparison.
# Authorization and authentication
The "Camara Security and Interoperability Profile" provides details of how an API consumer requests an access token. Please refer to Identity and Consent Management (https://github.com/camaraproject/IdentityAndConsentManagement/) for the released version of the profile.
The specific authorization flows to be used will be agreed upon during the onboarding process, happening between the API consumer and the API provider, taking into account the declared purpose for accessing the API, whilst also being subject to the prevailing legal framework dictated by local legislation.
In cases where personal data is processed by the API and users can exercise their rights through mechanisms such as opt-in and/or opt-out, the use of three-legged access tokens is mandatory. This ensures that the API remains in compliance with privacy regulations, upholding the principles of transparency and user-centric privacy-by-design.
# Additional CAMARA error responses
The list of error codes in this API specification is not exhaustive. Therefore the API specification may not document some non-mandatory error statuses as indicated in `CAMARA API Design Guide`.
Please refer to the `CAMARA_common.yaml` of the Commonalities Release associated to this API version for a complete list of error responses. The applicable Commonalities Release can be identified in the `API Readiness Checklist` document associated to this API version.
As a specific rule, error `501 - NOT_IMPLEMENTED` can be only a possible error response if it is explicitly documented in the API.
license:
name: Apache 2.0
url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
version: wip
x-camara-commonalities: 0.6
externalDocs:
description: Product documentation at CAMARA
url: https://github.com/camaraproject/DeviceSwap
servers:
- url: '{apiRoot}/device-swap/vwip'
variables:
apiRoot:
default: http://localhost:9091
description: API root, defined by the service provider, e.g. `api.example.com` or `api.example.com/somepath`
tags:
- name: Retrieve Device Swap Date
description: Receive the last date in which the device of the end-user was swapped
- name: Check Device Swap
description: Validate if the SIM of the end-user has been installed in a different device during a past period
paths:
/retrieve-date:
post:
tags:
- Retrieve Device Swap Date
summary: Get last device swap date
description: Get timestamp of last device swap for a mobile user account provided with phone number.
operationId: retrieveDeviceSwapDate
security:
- openId:
- device-swap
- openId:
- device-swap:retrieve-date
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/x-correlator'
requestBody:
description: |
Create a device swap date request for a phone number.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: "#/components/schemas/CreateDeviceSwapDate"
examples:
RETRIEVE_3LEGS:
$ref: "#/components/examples/RETRIEVE_3LEGS"
RETRIEVE_2LEGS:
$ref: "#/components/examples/RETRIEVE_2LEGS"
required: true
responses:
"200":
description: Contains information about Device swap change
headers:
x-correlator:
$ref: '#/components/headers/x-correlator'
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: "#/components/schemas/DeviceSwapInfo"
examples:
RETRIEVE_DATE:
$ref: "#/components/examples/RETRIEVE_DATE"
RETRIEVE_MONITORED_PERIOD:
$ref: "#/components/examples/RETRIEVE_MONITORED_PERIOD"
RETRIEVE_MONITORED_NULL:
$ref: "#/components/examples/RETRIEVE_MONITORED_NULL"
"400":
$ref: "#/components/responses/Generic400"
"401":
$ref: "#/components/responses/Generic401"
"403":
$ref: "#/components/responses/Generic403"
"404":
$ref: "#/components/responses/Generic404"
"422":
$ref: "#/components/responses/Generic422"
/check:
post:
tags:
- Check Device Swap
summary: Check last device swap date
description: Check if device swap has been performed during a past period
operationId: checkDeviceSwap
security:
- openId:
- device-swap
- openId:
- device-swap:check
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/x-correlator'
requestBody:
required: true
description: |
Create a check device swap request for a phone number.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: "#/components/schemas/CreateCheckDeviceSwap"
examples:
CHECK_3LEGS:
$ref: "#/components/examples/CHECK_3LEGS"
CHECK_2LEGS:
$ref: "#/components/examples/CHECK_2LEGS"
responses:
"200":
description: Returns whether a device swap has been performed during a past period
headers:
x-correlator:
$ref: '#/components/headers/x-correlator'
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: "#/components/schemas/CheckDeviceSwapInfo"
"400":
$ref: "#/components/responses/Generic400Check"
"401":
$ref: "#/components/responses/Generic401"
"403":
$ref: "#/components/responses/Generic403"
"404":
$ref: "#/components/responses/Generic404"
"422":
$ref: "#/components/responses/Generic422"
components:
securitySchemes:
openId:
type: openIdConnect
openIdConnectUrl: https://example.com/.well-known/openid-configuration
parameters:
x-correlator:
name: x-correlator
in: header
description: Correlation id for the different services
schema:
$ref: "#/components/schemas/XCorrelator"
headers:
x-correlator:
description: Correlation id for the different services
schema:
$ref: "#/components/schemas/XCorrelator"
schemas:
XCorrelator:
type: string
pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9-_:;.\/<>{}]{0,256}$
example: "b4333c46-49c0-4f62-80d7-f0ef930f1c46"
DeviceSwapInfo:
type: object
required:
- latestDeviceChange
properties:
latestDeviceChange:
type: string
format: date-time
description: Timestamp of latest device swap performed. It must follow [RFC 3339](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3339#section-5.6) and must have time zone.
nullable: true
example: "2023-07-03T14:27:08.312+02:00"
monitoredPeriod:
type: integer
description: Timeframe in days for device change supervision for the phone number. It could be valued in the response if the latest Device swap occurred before this monitored period.
example: 120
CreateDeviceSwapDate:
type: object
properties:
phoneNumber:
$ref: "#/components/schemas/PhoneNumber"
CreateCheckDeviceSwap:
type: object
properties:
phoneNumber:
$ref: "#/components/schemas/PhoneNumber"
maxAge:
type: integer
example: 240
description: |
Period in hours to be checked for device swap.
format: int32
minimum: 1
maximum: 2400
default: 240
PhoneNumber:
type: string
pattern: '^\+[1-9][0-9]{4,14}$'
example: '+34666111333'
description: A public identifier addressing a telephone subscription. In mobile networks it corresponds to the MSISDN (Mobile Station International Subscriber Directory Number). In order to be globally unique it has to be formatted in international format, according to E.164 standard, prefixed with '+'.
CheckDeviceSwapInfo:
type: object
required:
- swapped
properties:
swapped:
type: boolean
description: Indicates whether the device has been swapped during the period within the provided age.
ErrorInfo:
type: object
required:
- status
- code
- message
properties:
message:
type: string
description: A human-readable description of what the event represents
status:
type: integer
description: HTTP response status code
code:
type: string
description: A human-readable code to describe the error
responses:
Generic400:
description: Bad Request
headers:
x-correlator:
$ref: "#/components/headers/x-correlator"
content:
application/json:
schema:
allOf:
- $ref: "#/components/schemas/ErrorInfo"
- type: object
properties:
status:
enum:
- 400
code:
enum:
- INVALID_ARGUMENT
examples:
GENERIC_400_INVALID_ARGUMENT:
description: Invalid Argument. Generic Syntax Exception
value:
status: 400
code: INVALID_ARGUMENT
message: Client specified an invalid argument, request body or query param.
Generic400Check:
description: Bad Request
headers:
x-correlator:
$ref: "#/components/headers/x-correlator"
content:
application/json:
schema:
allOf:
- $ref: "#/components/schemas/ErrorInfo"
- type: object
properties:
status:
enum:
- 400
code:
enum:
- INVALID_ARGUMENT
- OUT_OF_RANGE
examples:
GENERIC_400_INVALID_ARGUMENT:
description: Invalid Argument. Generic Syntax Exception
value:
status: 400
code: INVALID_ARGUMENT
message: Client specified an invalid argument, request body or query param.
GENERIC_400_OUT_OF_RANGE:
description: Out of Range. Specific Syntax Exception used when a given field has a pre-defined range or a invalid filter criteria combination is requested
value:
status: 400
code: OUT_OF_RANGE
message: Client specified an invalid range.
Generic401:
description: Unauthorized
headers:
x-correlator:
$ref: "#/components/headers/x-correlator"
content:
application/json:
schema:
allOf:
- $ref: "#/components/schemas/ErrorInfo"
- type: object
properties:
status:
enum:
- 401
code:
enum:
- UNAUTHENTICATED
examples:
GENERIC_401_UNAUTHENTICATED:
description: Request cannot be authenticated
value:
status: 401
code: UNAUTHENTICATED
message: Request not authenticated due to missing, invalid, or expired credentials.
Generic403:
description: Forbidden
headers:
x-correlator:
$ref: "#/components/headers/x-correlator"
content:
application/json:
schema:
allOf:
- $ref: "#/components/schemas/ErrorInfo"
- type: object
properties:
status:
enum:
- 403
code:
enum:
- PERMISSION_DENIED
examples:
GENERIC_403_PERMISSION_DENIED:
description: Permission denied. OAuth2 token access does not have the required scope or when the user fails operational security
value:
status: 403
code: PERMISSION_DENIED
message: Client does not have sufficient permissions to perform this action.
Generic404:
description: Not found
headers:
x-correlator:
$ref: "#/components/headers/x-correlator"
content:
application/json:
schema:
allOf:
- $ref: "#/components/schemas/ErrorInfo"
- type: object
properties:
status:
enum:
- 404
code:
enum:
- NOT_FOUND
- IDENTIFIER_NOT_FOUND
examples:
GENERIC_404_NOT_FOUND:
description: Resource is not found
value:
status: 404
code: NOT_FOUND
message: The specified resource is not found.
GENERIC_404_IDENTIFIER_NOT_FOUND:
description: Some identifier cannot be matched to a device
value:
status: 404
code: IDENTIFIER_NOT_FOUND
message: Device identifier not found.
Generic422:
description: Unprocessable Content
headers:
x-correlator:
$ref: "#/components/headers/x-correlator"
content:
application/json:
schema:
allOf:
- $ref: "#/components/schemas/ErrorInfo"
- type: object
properties:
status:
enum:
- 422
code:
enum:
- SERVICE_NOT_APPLICABLE
- MISSING_IDENTIFIER
- UNNECESSARY_IDENTIFIER
examples:
GENERIC_422_SERVICE_NOT_APPLICABLE:
description: Service not applicable for the provided identifier
value:
status: 422
code: SERVICE_NOT_APPLICABLE
message: The service is not available for the provided identifier.
GENERIC_422_MISSING_IDENTIFIER:
description: phone number is not included in the request (in case of 2-legged) or the phone number identification cannot be derived from access token (in 3-legged)
value:
status: 422
code: MISSING_IDENTIFIER
message: The device cannot be identified.
GENERIC_422_UNNECESSARY_IDENTIFIER:
description: An explicit identifier is provided when a device or phone number has already been identified from the access token
value:
status: 422
code: UNNECESSARY_IDENTIFIER
message: The device is already identified by the access token.
Generic429:
description: Too Many Requests
headers:
x-correlator:
$ref: "#/components/headers/x-correlator"
content:
application/json:
schema:
allOf:
- $ref: "#/components/schemas/ErrorInfo"
- type: object
properties:
status:
enum:
- 429
code:
enum:
- QUOTA_EXCEEDED
- TOO_MANY_REQUESTS
examples:
GENERIC_429_QUOTA_EXCEEDED:
description: Request is rejected due to exceeding a business quota limit
value:
status: 429
code: QUOTA_EXCEEDED
message: Rejected due to exceeding a business quota limit.
GENERIC_429_TOO_MANY_REQUESTS:
description: API Server request limit is overpassed
value:
status: 429
code: TOO_MANY_REQUESTS
message: Rejected due to request rate limit overpassed.
examples:
RETRIEVE_DATE:
summary: Lastest Device swap date is send back
value:
latestDeviceChange: 2024-09-18T07:37:53.471829447Z
RETRIEVE_MONITORED_NULL:
summary: Only null value is retrieved
value:
latestDeviceChange: null
RETRIEVE_MONITORED_PERIOD:
summary: null is send back for the date but a monitoredPeriod is provided
value:
latestDeviceChange: null
monitoredPeriod: 120
CHECK_2LEGS:
summary: Check request without 3-legged access tokens
value:
phoneNumber: "+346661113334"
maxAge: 120
CHECK_3LEGS:
summary: Check request with 3-legged access tokens
value:
maxAge: 120
RETRIEVE_2LEGS:
summary: Retrieve request without 3-legged access tokens
value:
phoneNumber: "+346661113334"
RETRIEVE_3LEGS:
summary: Retrieve request with 3-legged access tokens
value:
{}