Opal Categories API

## Overview Categories are in a tree: a given category has zero or more ancestors and zero or more descendants. The tree is built by recursively following `parent_category` relationships. Currently our trees are at most two nodes deep (that is, a root with zero or more leaves), but clients **MUST** be able to handle trees of any depth. ### Category type and custom fields Categories can be associated with [Category Types](/api/documentation/v3#tag/Category-Types), determining which [Custom Fields](/api/documentation/v3#tag/Custom-Fields) are available to [Blocks](/api/documentation/v3#tag/Blocks) in the category. If the category has a relationship with a deactivated category type it is considered to have no category type. ### Effective category type The effective category type allows the category to inherit a category type relationship. *Note:* The following description of the algorithm is informational: clients that want the effective category type **MUST** use the `effective_category_type_id` property in the category resource object’s `meta` information, and **MUST NOT** manually compute the value using this algorithm, as the exact behavior may change without warning. If the given category has a relationship with an active (not deactivated, not deleted) category type that is the effective category type. If the given category does *not* have a relationship with an active category type, any ancestors that have a relationship with an active category type are selected, and the nearest ancestor (the ancestor with the largest `depth`) provides the effective category type. If the given category has no ancestors, or none of its ancestors have a relationship with an active category type, *and* the view *does* have a relationship to an active category type, the view’s category type is the effective category type. If none of the above conditions are met, the category does not have an effective category type. *Note*: The behavior doesn’t change based on where the given category is in the tree — the logic is the same for the root, leaves, and everything in-between. This is why the following table refers to ‘parent’ and ‘grandparent’, rather than using tree terminology. In the following * ‘✓’ means the column’s entry is associated to an active category type * the parent and grandparent demonstrate inheritance behavior if the given category has ancestors with an associated active category type | view | grandparent category | parent category | given category | effective category type comes from… | | :----: | :--------------------: | :---------------: | :--------------: | -------------------- | | | | | ✓ | given | | | | ✓ | ✓ | given | | | ✓ | | ✓ | given | | ✓ | | | ✓ | given | | | | ✓ | | parent | | | ✓ | ✓ | | parent | |✓ | | ✓ | | parent | | | ✓ | | | grandparent | | ✓ | ✓ | | | grandparent | | ✓ | | | | view | | | | | | 🚫 (no category type) |

Operations 4

POST /loupe/v3/categories Create a new Category #
GET /loupe/v3/categories/{category_id} Get a Category by the given ID #
PATCH /loupe/v3/categories/{category_id} Update an existing Category. #
DELETE /loupe/v3/categories/{category_id} Delete a Category by the given ID #

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openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  version: 3.0.0
  title: Opal API (⚠️ WIP) Categories API
  license:
    name: Opal API License
    url: https://www.workwithopal.com/api-license
  description: "The key words “MUST”, “MUST NOT”, “REQUIRED”, “SHALL”, “SHALL NOT”, “SHOULD”, “SHOULD NOT”, “RECOMMENDED”, “NOT RECOMMENDED”, “MAY”, and “OPTIONAL” in this document are to be interpreted as described in [BCP 14](https://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp14) [[RFC2119](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2119)] [[RFC8174](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8174)] when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here.\n\n# Other API Versions\n\nThe [v2 API](/api/documentation/v2) is more complete than the v3 API. Currently, if a resource has endpoints in both the v2 API and the v3 API you **SHOULD** use the v2 API endpoints. At some point in the future we will recommend the v3 API instead.\n\n*Note:* Endpoints will be added to the v3 API as needed, and we will continue to support all v2 API endpoints in the  “JSON:API” and “Other” categories, even if we add an equivalent v3 API endpoint.\n\n# Key differences between v2 and v3 APIs\n\n## Resource Identifiers\n\nThe v3 API uses a different format for primary resource identifiers than the v2 API. Responses from v3 API endpoints include the resource’s v2 API id in the `attributes.legacy_id` field, in case you need to use both API versions. (v2 API resource identifiers are generally integers, but v2 API endpoints **MAY** use a different format.)\n\n*Note:* These are opaque strings, and you **MUST NOT** rely on the structure. Currently newly-created resources have a UUIDv4 identifier, but this behavior **MAY** change at any time. Existing identifiers will not be affected.\n\n# Documentation Organization\n\nv3 API endpoints are categorized by stability:\n\n1. Stable\n2. Unstable\n3. Proposed\n4. Experimental\n\nAll v3 API endpoints are [JSON:API](https://jsonapi.org)-compliant ([specification](https://jsonapi.org/format/)) and can be used with any [JSON:API-compliant client](https://jsonapi.org/implementations/).\n\nYour requests **MUST** set the `Accept` HTTP header to `application/vnd.api+json`. The server response’s `Content-Type` HTTP header will also be `application/vnd.api+json`.\n\n## Unstable Endpoints\n\n*Note:* This generally refers resources in the “Unstable” category, but includes endpoints with a summary that’s prefixed by `[UNSTABLE]`. These `[UNSTABLE]` endpoints may be part of a “Stable” resource.\n\nThe data structure and behavior of “Unstable” endpoints are not guaranteed, and we **MAY** change them at any time. You **MUST NOT** use these endpoints for production features, but **MAY** use them as a preview of upcoming features, and we welcome feedback.\n\n## Proposed Endpoints\n\n“Proposed” endpoints **MUST NOT** be used (they’re not yet implemented), and we **MAY** change or remove them at any time. We publish them at our discretion to share our plans and encourage internal feedback. We also welcome your feedback.\n\n# Design Principles\n\n## Breaking Changes\n\nWe **MAY** expand the data for “Stable” resources, but will not change or remove existing attributes or relationships for these resources. These expansions should not require any changes to your code.\n\nWe provide no guarantees for “Unstable,” \"Experimental,\" or “Proposed” endpoints.\n\n## Firehose Rule\n\nBy default endpoints include all the relevant data that’s accessible to the authenticated user. Clients **MAY** specify filters, ordering, pagination, sparse fields, and other limiting mechanisms to pare down the desired data.\n\n*Note:* Existing endpoints **MAY NOT** follow this maximalist approach, but new endpoints will, and we **MAY** enhance existing endpoints.\n\n## Obscurity\n\nIn order to provide customers with as much privacy as possible, many API calls that fail authorization will return `404 Not Found` rather than `403 Forbidden`. Do not design frontends around the expectation that a `404 Not Found` status code means a resource would not be returned given different authentication credentials.\n\n# Authentication Strategies\n## OAuth 2.0\nOpal uses OAuth 2.0 (https://oauth.net/2) to authenticate users and grant access to protected resources. After registering your application as an OAuth client, you must get permission from each user before accessing their account.\n\nThe main steps are:\n\n1. Register your application\n2. Direct the user to Opal, to authorize your application\n3. Opal confirm's user identity, and asks the user to grant your application permissions\n4. Opal issues tokens your application can use to access the user's Opal resources\n5. Your application can begin making requests to the Opal API on behalf of the user\n\n### Roles\n#### Client\nThe 3rd-party application accessing the API on behalf of the User.\n\n#### API\nAPI endpoints used to interact with a User's resources in Opal.\n\n#### User\nThe person authorizing the Client to access to their Opal account.\n\n### Registering your application\nApplication registration is currently a manual process.\n\nTo begin, you will need to provide the following information to the Opal integrations team:\n\n- Application name\n- Logo URI\n- Redirect URI\n\nIn return, expect to receive:\n\n- Client ID\n  - public\n- Application secret\n  - keep this private\n  - keep this written down someplace safe. Opal cannot retrieve this for you if it is lost.\n\n### Authorization\nFor a Client to make API requests on behalf of Users, the User must first give consent.\nHere is an overview of the consent flow:\n\n1. Direct the User to grant access in Opal\n\n```\nhttps://login.ouropal.com/oauth2/auth?grant_type=authorization_code&scope=offline_access&response_type=code&client_id={client_id}&state={state}&redirect_uri={url_encoded_redirect}\n```\n\nParameters:\n- `client_id`: Provided by Opal.\n- `grant_type`: Set the value to authorization_code to receive a code string that can be exchanged for an access token.\n- `redirect_uri`: Defined by Client. After authentication, the user will be directed to this location.\n- `response_type`: The value code should be set for refresh tokens to be issued.\n- `scope`: The value offline_access must be present if you wish to use refresh tokens.\n- `state`: Defined by the Client. A unique value used to validate the response.\n\n\n2. If logged out, User is directed to log in to Opal\n\n3. User is redirected to consent page (if the User has not already given consent)\n\n```\nhttps://login.ouropal.com/oauth2/consent?consent_challenge=abc123\n```\n\n4. If the User grants permission, User is sent to the specified `redirect_uri`\n\n```\nhttps://example.com/defined-by-client?code=Mu9z2DndN7TfXSLaf99O8ReqqXqMabXhSqP5e0jlx_Q.naLKbko-GyfPJRGYcWyclxU0sBGwygPy05OSFww0XZ8&scope=offline_access&state={state}\n```\n\nParameters:\n- `code`: The Client may use this to get an access token.\n- `scope`: API permissions granted to the Client by the User.\n- `state`: The validation string provided by the Client in step 1.\n\nIf the User declines the consent prompt, User will be sent to the same `redirect_uri`, but with an error parameter :\n\n```\nhttps://example.com/defined-by-client?error=consent+request+denied&state={state}\n```\n\nParameters:\n- `error`: A brief description of the issue.\n- `state`: The validation string provided by the Client in step 1.\n\n### Retrieving Access Token\nYou must make a POST request to the token endpoint to get an access token, before the code expires:\n\n```\ncurl -X POST \\\n  https://login.ouropal.com/oauth2/token \\\n  -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \\\n  -d 'code={code}&client_id={client_id}&redirect_uri={url_encoded_redirect}&client_secret={client_secret}&grant_type=authorization_code'\n```\n\nParameters:\n- `code`\n- `client_id`: Client ID provided by Opal.\n- `client_secret`: Client secret provided by Opal.\n- `grant_type`: Set value to authorization_code .\n- `redirect_uri`: Optional.\n\nIf successful, a JSON-formatted response body will contain the access_token and refresh_token:\n\n```json\n{\n  \"access_token\":\"ABC123\",\n  \"token_type\":\"bearer\",\n  \"expires_in\":3600,\n  \"refresh_token\":\"DEF456\",\n  \"scope\":\"offline_access\"\n}\n```\n\n### Refreshing an Access Token\nOnce the access_token expires, you may generate a new one at the same token endpoint, but with different parameters.\nNote that in this request, a \"refresh_token\" parameter is used instead of \"code\", and the \"grant_type\" value is now \"refresh_token\" instead of \"authorization_code\".\n\n```\ncurl -X POST \\\n  https://login.ouropal.com/oauth2/token \\\n  -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \\\n  -d 'refresh_token={refresh_token}&client_id={client_id}&redirect_uri={url_encoded_redirect}&client_secret={secret}&grant_type=refresh_token'\n```\n\nParameters:\n- `client_id`: Client ID provided by Opal.\n- `client_secret`: Client secret provided by Opal.\n- `grant_type`: Set value to refresh_token .\n- `redirect_uri`: Optional.\n- `refresh_token`: Refresh token value\n\n### Making Authenticated Requests\n\nSet an authorization header in your requests, specifying your access token as documented here: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6750#section-2.1.\n\n**NOTE** that the `Authorization` header supercedes the `Session-Token` header described in the documentation for many endpoints. Specifying an `Authorization` header means you do not need to specify a `Session-Token` header.\n\n```\nAuthorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN\n```\n\nFor example:\n```\n     GET /resource HTTP/1.1\n     Host: server.example.com\n     Authorization: Bearer mF_9.B5f-4.1JqM\n```\n\n### Client Revoke/Rolling OAuth secrets\nClient secrets must be kept secret and not exposed outside of the token retrieval requests. If a secret has been potentially compromised, please notify Opal as soon as possible and let us know the OAuth client id associated with the secret. We will roll/update the secret, which will invalidate all existing access and refresh tokens. Invalidating tokens will cause users to need to reauthenticate, but consent should be remembered.\n"
servers:
- url: https://login.ouropal.com
tags:
- name: Categories
  description: "## Overview\n\nCategories are in a tree: a given category has zero or more ancestors and zero or more descendants. The tree is built by recursively following `parent_category` relationships. Currently our trees are at most two nodes deep (that is, a root with zero or more leaves), but clients **MUST** be able to handle trees of any depth.\n\n### Category type and custom fields\n\nCategories can be associated with [Category Types](/api/documentation/v3#tag/Category-Types), determining which [Custom Fields](/api/documentation/v3#tag/Custom-Fields) are available to [Blocks](/api/documentation/v3#tag/Blocks) in the category. If the category has a relationship with a deactivated category type it is considered to have no category type.\n\n### <q>Effective</q> category type\n\nThe <q>effective</q> category type allows the category to inherit a category type relationship.\n\n*Note:* The following description of the algorithm is informational: clients that want the <q>effective</q> category type **MUST** use the `effective_category_type_id` property in the category resource object’s `meta` information, and **MUST NOT** manually compute the value using this algorithm, as the exact behavior may change without warning.\n\nIf the given category has a relationship with an active (not deactivated, not deleted) category type that is the <q>effective</q> category type.\n\nIf the given category does *not* have a relationship with an active category type, any ancestors that have a relationship with an active category type are selected, and the nearest ancestor (the ancestor with the largest `depth`) provides the <q>effective</q> category type.\n\nIf the given category has no ancestors, or none of its ancestors have a relationship with an active category type, *and* the view *does* have a relationship to an active category type, the view’s category type is the <q>effective</q> category type.\n\nIf none of the above conditions are met, the category does not have an <q>effective</q> category type.\n\n*Note*: The behavior doesn’t change based on where the given category is in the tree — the logic is the same for the root, leaves, and everything in-between. This is why the following table refers to ‘parent’ and ‘grandparent’, rather than using tree terminology.\n\nIn the following\n* ‘✓’ means the column’s entry is associated to an active category type\n* the parent and grandparent demonstrate inheritance behavior if the given category has ancestors\n    with an associated active category type\n\n  | view | grandparent category | parent category | given category | <q>effective</q> category type comes from… |\n  | :----: | :--------------------: | :---------------: | :--------------: | -------------------- |\n  |        |                        |                   | ✓                | given                 |\n  |        |                        | ✓                 | ✓                | given                 |\n  |        | ✓                      |                   | ✓                | given                 |\n  | ✓      |                        |                   | ✓                | given                 |\n  |        |                        | ✓                 |                  | parent               |\n  |        | ✓                      | ✓                 |                  | parent               |\n  |✓       |                        | ✓                 |                  | parent               |\n  |        | ✓                      |                   |                  | grandparent          |\n  | ✓      | ✓                      |                   |                  | grandparent          |\n  | ✓      |                        |                   |                  | view                 |\n  |        |                        |                   |                  | \U0001F6AB (no category type) |\n"
paths:
  /loupe/v3/categories:
    post:
      tags:
      - Categories
      operationId: CreateCategoryV3
      summary: Create a new Category
      security:
      - oauth2:
        - offline_access
      - api_key: []
      parameters:
      - name: include
        in: query
        required: false
        description: A comma separated value of related objects to include.
        schema:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
            enum:
            - block_template
            - block_connectors
            - block_connectors.block
            - blocks
            - category_type
            - filter_set
            - group_by_custom_field
            - view
        style: form
        explode: false
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
              - data
              properties:
                data:
                  type: object
                  required:
                  - type
                  - attributes
                  - relationships
                  properties:
                    type:
                      type: string
                      enum:
                      - category
                    attributes:
                      type: object
                      required:
                      - title
                      - position
                      additionalProperties: false
                      properties:
                        title:
                          type:
                          - string
                          - 'null'
                          description: A descriptive name for the category.
                        position:
                          type: integer
                          description: A zero-based value indicating its position relative to other categories at the same depth.
                        block_size:
                          type: string
                          default: small
                          description: An enumeration representing the sizes of block resources within the category.
                          enum:
                          - small
                          - medium
                          - large
                        view_mode:
                          type: string
                          default: default
                          description: An enumeration representing the display mode of the category.
                          enum:
                          - default
                          - condensed
                        group_by_strategy:
                          type:
                          - string
                          - 'null'
                          description: 'An enumeration representing the grouping strategy of a category, part of instructions to the client on how

                            children within the category should be displayed. If set to `custom_field`, then the the `group_by_custom_field`

                            relationship must also be provided.

                            '
                          enum:
                          - category_type
                          - custom_field
                        group_by_exclude_empty_groupings:
                          type: boolean
                          default: true
                          description: 'Part of instructions to the client on how children within the category should be displayed. Inidicates whether groupings that are empty should be hidden from view. Defaults to true.

                            '
                    relationships:
                      type: object
                      additionalProperties: false
                      required:
                      - view
                      properties:
                        block_template:
                          type: object
                          required:
                          - data
                          additionalProperties: false
                          properties:
                            data:
                              type:
                              - object
                              - 'null'
                              required:
                              - id
                              - type
                              additionalProperties: false
                              properties:
                                id:
                                  type: string
                                  format: uuid
                                type:
                                  type: string
                                  enum:
                                  - block
                        category_type:
                          type: object
                          required:
                          - data
                          additionalProperties: false
                          properties:
                            data:
                              type:
                              - object
                              - 'null'
                              required:
                              - id
                              - type
                              additionalProperties: false
                              properties:
                                id:
                                  type: string
                                  format: uuid
                                type:
                                  type: string
                                  enum:
                                  - category_type
                        creator:
                          title: User
                          type: object
                          required:
                          - data
                          additionalProperties: false
                          properties:
                            data:
                              type: object
                              required:
                              - id
                              - type
                              additionalProperties: false
                              properties:
                                id:
                                  type: string
                                  format: uuid
                                type:
                                  type: string
                                  enum:
                                  - user
                        filter_set:
                          type: object
                          required:
                          - data
                          additionalProperties: false
                          properties:
                            data:
                              type:
                              - object
                              - 'null'
                              required:
                              - id
                              - type
                              additionalProperties: false
                              properties:
                                id:
                                  type: string
                                  format: uuid
                                type:
                                  type: string
                                  enum:
                                  - filter_set
                        group_by_custom_field:
                          type: object
                          required:
                          - data
                          additionalProperties: false
                          properties:
                            data:
                              type:
                              - object
                              - 'null'
                              required:
                              - id
                              - type
                              additionalProperties: false
                              properties:
                                id:
                                  type: string
                                  format: uuid
                                type:
                                  type: string
                                  enum:
                                  - custom_field
                        parent_category:
                          type: object
                          required:
                          - data
                          additionalProperties: false
                          properties:
                            data:
                              type:
                              - object
                              - 'null'
                              required:
                              - id
                              - type
                              additionalProperties: false
                              properties:
                                id:
                                  type: string
                                  format: uuid
                                type:
                                  type: string
                                  enum:
                                  - category
                        view:
                          type: object
                          required:
                          - data
                          additionalProperties: false
                          properties:
                            data:
                              type: object
                              required:
                              - id
                              - type
                              additionalProperties: false
                              properties:
                                id:
                                  type: string
                                  format: uuid
                                type:
                                  type: string
                                  enum:
                                  - view
      responses:
        '201':
          description: A newly created category resource.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                required:
                - data
                properties:
                  data:
                    title: category
                    type: object
                    required:
                    - id
                    - type
                    - attributes
                    - relationships
                    additionalProperties: false
                    properties:
                      id:
                        type: string
                        format: uuid
                      type:
                        type: string
                        enum:
                        - category
                      attributes:
                        type: object
                        required:
                        - title
                        - position
                        - block_size
                        - view_mode
                        - group_by_strategy
                        - group_by_exclude_empty_groupings
                        - depth
                        - is_supportive
                        - created_at
                        - updated_at
                        additionalProperties: false
                        properties:
                          title:
                            type: string
                            description: A descriptive name for the category.
                          depth:
                            type: integer
                            readOnly: true
                            description: This is a read-only calculated field. Given that a category can have a parent category, depth is a zero-based indication of how far removed this category is from the root category.
                          position:
                            type: integer
                            description: A zero-based value indicating its position relative to other categories at the same depth.
                          block_size:
                            type: string
                            description: An enumeration representing the sizes of block resources within the category.
                            enum:
                            - small
                            - medium
                            - large
                          view_mode:
                            type: string
                            description: An enumeration representing the display mode of the category.
                            enum:
                            - default
                            - condensed
                          group_by_strategy:
                            type:
                            - string
                            - 'null'
                            description: 'An enumeration representing the grouping strategy of a category, part of instructions to the client on how children within the category should be displayed. If set to `custom_field`, then the the `group_by_custom_field` relationship must also be provided.

                              '
                            enum:
                            - null
                            - category_type
                            - custom_field
                          group_by_exclude_empty_groupings:
                            type: boolean
                            default: true
                            description: 'Part of instructions to the client on how children within the category should be displayed. Inidicates whether groupings that are empty should be hidden from view. Defaults to true.

                              '
                          is_supportive:
                            type: boolean
                            default: false
                            description: 'Indicates that the category contains blocks native to other views, and that the blocks within are here "in support of" this category''s view.

                              Categories with this attribute set to `true` are created internally by the system, and cannot be edited.

                              '
                            readOnly: true
                          created_at:
                            type: string
                            format: date-time
                            description: An ISO 8601-formatted datetime indicating when the resource was created.
                            readOnly: true
                          updated_at:
                            type: string
                            format: date-time
                            description: An ISO 8601-formatted datetime indicating when the resource was last updated.
                            readOnly: true
                      relationships:
                        type: object
                        additionalProperties: false
                        required:
                        - block_connectors
                        - blocks
                        - charts
                        - creator
                        - view
                        properties:
                          block_template:
                            type: object
                            required:
                            - data
                            additionalProperties: false
                            properties:
                              data:
                                type:
                                - object
                                - 'null'
                                required:
                                - id
                                - type
                                additionalProperties: false
                                properties:
                                  id:
                                    type: string
                                    format: uuid
                                  type:
                                    type: string
                                    enum:
                                    - block
                          block_connectors:
                            type: object
                            required:
                            - data
                            additionalProperties: false
                            properties:
                              data:
                                type: array
                                items:
                                  type: object
                                  required:
                                  - id
                                  - type
                                  additionalProperties: false
                                  properties:
                                    id:
                                      type: string
                                      format: uuid
                                    type:
                                      type: string
                                      enum:
                                      - block_connector
                          blocks:
                            deprecated: true
                            description: 'Reading blocks directly through the category has been deprecated in

                              favor of reading block_connectors.

                              '
                            type: object
                            required:
                            - data
                            additionalProperties: false
                            properties:
                              data:
                                type: array
                                items:
                                  type: object
                                  required:
                                  - id
                                  - type
                                  additionalProperties: false
                                  properties:
                                    id:
                                      type: string
                                      format: uuid
                                    type:
                                      type: string
                                      enum:
                                      - block
                          category_type:
                            type: object
                           

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