City University of Hong Kong

City University of Hong Kong specialization API

The specialization API from City University of Hong Kong — 8 operation(s) for specialization.

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OpenAPI Specification

cityu-specialization-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.0.1
info:
  title: Pure activity specialization API
  description: The Pure API provides a secure and complete web services API for using and managing research information data in Pure. The API enables a broad range of use-cases for interacting with research information, from anonymous Open Data scenarios to enabling the next generation Pure admin.
  termsOfService: ''
  contact:
    name: ''
    url: ''
    email: pure-support@elsevier.com
  license:
    name: ''
    url: ''
  version: 5.35.1-2
servers:
- url: /ws/api
security:
- api-key: []
tags:
- name: specialization
paths:
  /specializations:
    get:
      tags:
      - specialization
      summary: Lists all specializations
      description: Lists all specializations in the Pure instance. If you need to filter the specializations returned, see the POST version which supports additional filtering.
      operationId: specialization_list
      parameters:
      - name: size
        in: query
        description: Number of returned specializations per request.
        schema:
          maximum: 1000
          type: integer
          format: int32
          default: 10
      - name: offset
        in: query
        description: The offset for the returned list. 0 or null value is from the start
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int32
          default: 0
      - name: order
        in: query
        description: The order of the list, must be a value from /specializations/orderings
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful operation
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/SpecializationListResult'
    put:
      tags:
      - specialization
      summary: Create specialization
      description: Create specialization
      operationId: specialization_create
      requestBody:
        description: The content to create
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/Specialization'
        required: true
      responses:
        '201':
          description: Successful operation
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Specialization'
        '400':
          description: Bad Request
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProblemDetails'
        '409':
          description: Version conflict
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ConflictProblemDetails'
  /specializations/allowed-locales:
    get:
      tags:
      - specialization
      summary: A list of allowed locales in localized strings
      description: Get a list of allowed locales that can be used when submitting localized string entities.
      operationId: specialization_getAllowedLocales
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful operation
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/LocalesList'
  /specializations/orderings:
    get:
      tags:
      - specialization
      summary: Lists available orderings
      description: Lists all orderings available to the specialization endpoint. These values can be used by the order parameter.
      operationId: specialization_getOrderings
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful operation
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OrderingsList'
  /specializations/search:
    post:
      tags:
      - specialization
      summary: Query operation for specialization
      description: Lists specializations in the Pure instance that matches the provided query, similar to the GET version, instead of using parameters to alter the response, an JSON document is posted with the request. The JSON document contains fields for all the parameters available for the GET version, but also additional filtering options.
      operationId: specialization_query
      requestBody:
        description: The query to perform
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/SpecializationQuery'
        required: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful operation
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/SpecializationListResult'
        '400':
          description: Bad request
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProblemDetails'
  /specializations/{uuid}:
    get:
      tags:
      - specialization
      summary: Get specialization
      description: Get specialization with specific UUID.
      operationId: specialization_get
      parameters:
      - name: uuid
        in: path
        description: UUID of the desired specialization
        required: true
        schema:
          pattern: .+
          type: string
          format: uuid
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful operation
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Specialization'
        '301':
          description: The requested content have changed UUID
        '404':
          description: Resource not found
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProblemDetails'
    put:
      tags:
      - specialization
      summary: Update specialization
      description: Update specialization with specific UUID.
      operationId: specialization_update
      parameters:
      - name: uuid
        in: path
        description: UUID of the specialization to update
        required: true
        schema:
          pattern: .+
          type: string
          format: uuid
      requestBody:
        description: The content to update
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/Specialization'
        required: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful operation
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Specialization'
        '400':
          description: Bad Request
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProblemDetails'
        '404':
          description: Resource not found
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProblemDetails'
    delete:
      tags:
      - specialization
      summary: Delete specialization
      description: Delete specialization with specific UUID.
      operationId: specialization_delete
      parameters:
      - name: uuid
        in: path
        description: UUID of the specialization
        required: true
        schema:
          pattern: .+
          type: string
          format: uuid
      responses:
        '204':
          description: Successful operation
        '404':
          description: Resource not found
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProblemDetails'
        '409':
          description: Conflict
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ConflictProblemDetails'
  /specializations/{uuid}/actions/lock:
    post:
      tags:
      - specialization
      summary: Lock the content
      description: Mark the content as external (used when content contains synchronised data). This has no effect on interactions with the content through the API.
      operationId: specialization_lock
      parameters:
      - name: uuid
        in: path
        description: UUID of the content to lock
        required: true
        schema:
          pattern: .+
          type: string
          format: uuid
      responses:
        '204':
          description: Content marked as locked
        '404':
          description: Resource not found
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProblemDetails'
        '409':
          description: Content already locked
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ConflictProblemDetails'
  /specializations/{uuid}/actions/unlock:
    post:
      tags:
      - specialization
      summary: Unlock the content
      description: Remove the external mark on the content (used when content contains synchronised data). This has no effect on interactions with the content through the API.
      operationId: specialization_unlock
      parameters:
      - name: uuid
        in: path
        description: UUID of the content to unlock
        required: true
        schema:
          pattern: .+
          type: string
          format: uuid
      responses:
        '204':
          description: Content marked as unlocked
        '404':
          description: Resource not found
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProblemDetails'
        '409':
          description: Content already unlocked
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ConflictProblemDetails'
  /specializations/{uuid}/dependents:
    get:
      tags:
      - specialization
      summary: Lists all dependents to the specialization
      description: 'Lists all dependents to the specialization with the specified UUID. If the user does not have access to view all the dependent content, an authorization error will be thrown. '
      operationId: specialization_dependents
      parameters:
      - name: uuid
        in: path
        description: UUID of the specialization
        required: true
        schema:
          pattern: .+
          type: string
          format: uuid
      - name: verbose
        in: query
        description: 'Default: false. Setting this to true will add links and names to the output but will also have an impact on performance. Use with caution.'
        schema:
          type: boolean
          default: false
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful operation
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ContentRefListResult'
components:
  schemas:
    Identifier:
      required:
      - typeDiscriminator
      type: object
      properties:
        typeDiscriminator:
          type: string
      discriminator:
        propertyName: typeDiscriminator
        mapping:
          ClassifiedId: '#/components/schemas/ClassifiedId'
          PrimaryId: '#/components/schemas/PrimaryId'
          Id: '#/components/schemas/Id'
    LocalesList:
      type: object
      properties:
        locales:
          pattern: /^[a-z]{2}_[A-Z]{2}$/
          type: array
          description: Allowed locale values for use in localized string entities. The locale format consists of lower-case ISO 639 alpha-2 language code and upper-cased ISO 3166 alpha-2 country code.
          items:
            pattern: /^[a-z]{2}_[A-Z]{2}$/
            type: string
            description: Allowed locale values for use in localized string entities. The locale format consists of lower-case ISO 639 alpha-2 language code and upper-cased ISO 3166 alpha-2 country code.
      description: List of available locales
    EducationRef:
      required:
      - uuid
      type: object
      description: A reference to Education
      nullable: true
      allOf:
      - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ContentRef'
    PageInformation:
      type: object
      properties:
        offset:
          type: integer
          description: Offset that returned items start at
          format: int32
        size:
          type: integer
          description: The requested number of items. May be higher than the actual number of items in the result if there are fewer items in the store than requested
          format: int32
      description: Information about pages
    SpecializationQuery:
      type: object
      properties:
        uuids:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
            format: uuid
        size:
          type: integer
          format: int32
        offset:
          type: integer
          format: int32
        orderings:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        searchString:
          type: string
          description: String used to perform search
        orderBy:
          type: string
          writeOnly: true
      description: Create a query for specialization
    Specialization:
      required:
      - active
      - name
      type: object
      properties:
        pureId:
          type: integer
          description: Pure database ID of the object, prefer using the UUID if it is present on the entity
          format: int64
          readOnly: true
        uuid:
          type: string
          description: UUID, this is the primary identity of the entity
          format: uuid
          readOnly: true
        createdBy:
          type: string
          description: Username of creator
          readOnly: true
        createdDate:
          type: string
          description: Date and time of creation
          format: date-time
          readOnly: true
        modifiedBy:
          type: string
          description: Username of the user that performed a modification
          readOnly: true
        modifiedDate:
          type: string
          description: Date and time of last modification
          format: date-time
          readOnly: true
        portalUrl:
          type: string
          description: URL of the content on the Pure Portal
          readOnly: true
        prettyUrlIdentifiers:
          type: array
          description: All pretty URLs
          readOnly: true
          items:
            type: string
            description: All pretty URLs
            readOnly: true
        previousUuids:
          type: array
          description: UUIDs of other content items which have been merged into this content item (or similar)
          readOnly: true
          items:
            type: string
            description: UUIDs of other content items which have been merged into this content item (or similar)
            readOnly: true
        version:
          type: string
          description: Used to guard against conflicting updates. For new content this is null, and for existing content the current value. The property should never be modified by a client, except in the rare case where the client wants to perform an update irrespective of if other clients have made updates in the meantime, also known as a "dirty write". A dirty write is performed by not including the property value or setting the property to null
          nullable: true
        name:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/LocalizedString'
        active:
          type: boolean
          description: Indicates if the specialization is active
        education:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/EducationRef'
        identifiers:
          type: array
          description: Identifiers related to the specialization.
          nullable: true
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Identifier'
        systemName:
          type: string
          description: The content system name
          readOnly: true
      description: A specialization
    SpecializationListResult:
      type: object
      properties:
        count:
          type: integer
          description: The full count, ignoring paging
          format: int32
        pageInformation:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/PageInformation'
        items:
          type: array
          description: Specialization
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Specialization'
      description: List of specializations. Can contain a subset of all items along with the full count
    OrderingsList:
      type: object
      properties:
        orderings:
          type: array
          description: IDs of ways content can be ordered
          items:
            type: string
            description: IDs of ways content can be ordered
      description: List of available orderings
    ContentRefListResult:
      type: object
      properties:
        items:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ContentRef'
      description: List of Content Refs
    ProblemDetails:
      type: object
      properties:
        type:
          type: string
          description: A URI reference [RFC3986] that identifies the problem type.
        title:
          type: string
          description: A short, human-readable summary of the problem type. It SHOULD NOT change from occurrence to occurrence of the problem, except for purposes of localization (e.g., using proactive content negotiation; see [RFC7231], Section 3.4).
        status:
          type: integer
          description: The HTTP status code ([RFC7231], Section 6) generated by the origin server for this occurrence of the problem.
          format: int32
        detail:
          type: string
          description: A human-readable explanation specific to this occurrence of the problem.
        instance:
          type: string
          description: A URI reference that identifies the specific occurrence of the problem.  It may or may not yield further information if dereferenced.
      description: RFC7807 Error details
      discriminator:
        propertyName: type
        mapping:
          /error: '#/components/schemas/GenericProblemDetails'
          /validation-error: '#/components/schemas/ValidationProblemDetails'
          /dependency-violation-error: '#/components/schemas/DependencyViolationProblemDetails'
    ContentRef:
      required:
      - systemName
      - uuid
      type: object
      properties:
        uuid:
          type: string
          description: UUID of the referred content
          format: uuid
        systemName:
          type: string
      nullable: true
      discriminator:
        propertyName: systemName
        mapping:
          AccessDefinition: '#/components/schemas/AccessDefinitionRef'
          Activity: '#/components/schemas/ActivityRef'
          Application: '#/components/schemas/ApplicationRef'
          AuthorCollaboration: '#/components/schemas/AuthorCollaborationRef'
          Award: '#/components/schemas/AwardRef'
          ClassificationScheme: '#/components/schemas/ClassificationSchemeRef'
          ConferenceSeries: '#/components/schemas/ConferenceSeriesRef'
          DataSet: '#/components/schemas/DataSetRef'
          Equipment: '#/components/schemas/EquipmentRef'
          Event: '#/components/schemas/EventRef'
          ExternalOrganization: '#/components/schemas/ExternalOrganizationRef'
          ExternalPerson: '#/components/schemas/ExternalPersonRef'
          Impact: '#/components/schemas/ImpactRef'
          Journal: '#/components/schemas/JournalRef'
          Organization: '#/components/schemas/OrganizationRef'
          Person: '#/components/schemas/PersonRef'
          Publisher: '#/components/schemas/PublisherRef'
          PressMedia: '#/components/schemas/PressMediaRef'
          Prize: '#/components/schemas/PrizeRef'
          Project: '#/components/schemas/ProjectRef'
          ResearchOutput: '#/components/schemas/ResearchOutputRef'
          StudentThesis: '#/components/schemas/StudentThesisRef'
          FundingOpportunity: '#/components/schemas/FundingOpportunityRef'
          EthicalReview: '#/components/schemas/EthicalReviewRef'
          ApplicationCluster: '#/components/schemas/ApplicationClusterRef'
          AwardCluster: '#/components/schemas/AwardClusterRef'
          User: '#/components/schemas/UserRef'
          ERA2018FieldOfResearch: '#/components/schemas/Anzsrc2008FieldOfResearchRef'
          UnitOfAssessmentREF2014: '#/components/schemas/Ref2014UnitOfAssessmentRef'
          UnitOfAssessmentREF2020: '#/components/schemas/Ref2020UnitOfAssessmentRef'
          ANZSRCTypeOfActivity: '#/components/schemas/Anzsrc2020TypeOfActivityRef'
          ANZSRCFieldOfResearch: '#/components/schemas/Anzsrc2020FieldOfResearchRef'
          ANZSRCSocioEconomicObjective: '#/components/schemas/Anzsrc2020SocioEconomicObjectiveRef'
          Semester: '#/components/schemas/SemesterRef'
          Education: '#/components/schemas/EducationRef'
          Course: '#/components/schemas/CourseRef'
          CurriculumVitae: '#/components/schemas/CurriculumVitaeRef'
          CustomDefinedFieldConfiguration: '#/components/schemas/CustomDefinedFieldConfigurationRef'
          KeywordGroupConfiguration: '#/components/schemas/KeywordGroupConfigurationRef'
          Review: '#/components/schemas/ReviewRef'
          GenericContentRef: '#/components/schemas/GenericContentRef'
          UserProfile: '#/components/schemas/UserProfileRef'
          Thesaurus: '#/components/schemas/ThesaurusRef'
          Concept: '#/components/schemas/ConceptRef'
          PersonExpertise: '#/components/schemas/PersonExpertiseRef'
          Contract: '#/components/schemas/ContractRef'
          Milestone: '#/components/schemas/MilestoneRef'
          Fingerprint: '#/components/schemas/FingerprintRef'
          Specialization: '#/components/schemas/SpecializationRef'
          StudentProject: '#/components/schemas/StudentProjectRef'
    ConflictProblemDetails:
      type: object
      properties:
        type:
          type: string
          description: A URI reference [RFC3986] that identifies the problem type.
        title:
          type: string
          description: A short, human-readable summary of the problem type. It SHOULD NOT change from occurrence to occurrence of the problem, except for purposes of localization (e.g., using proactive content negotiation; see [RFC7231], Section 3.4).
        status:
          type: integer
          description: The HTTP status code ([RFC7231], Section 6) generated by the origin server for this occurrence of the problem.
          format: int32
        detail:
          type: string
          description: A human-readable explanation specific to this occurrence of the problem.
        instance:
          type: string
          description: A URI reference that identifies the specific occurrence of the problem.  It may or may not yield further information if dereferenced.
        modified:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        modifiedBy:
          type: string
      description: Problem details for state conflict failures
    LocalizedString:
      type: object
      additionalProperties:
        type: string
        description: 'A set of string values, one for each submission locale. Note: invalid locale values will be ignored.'
        nullable: true
        example: '{"en_GB":"Some text"}'
      description: 'A set of string values, one for each submission locale. Note: invalid locale values will be ignored.'
      nullable: true
      example:
        en_GB: Some text
  securitySchemes:
    api-key:
      type: apiKey
      description: Security mechanism for the API
      name: api-key
      in: header