Endpoint URL: {identityDomain} /config/{appId} /entityTypes/{entityType} /attributes
Description
Returns detailed information about each attribute in an entity type, including the attribute name and datatype. Attributes are the individual fields that make up an entity type schema.
API Client Permissions
The following table indicates the API clients that can (and the API clients that can't) be used to call this endpoint:
owner | access_issuer | direct_access | direct_read_access | login_client |
Yes | No | No | No | No |
Authentication
This endpoint supports Basic authentication.
How to Create an Authentication String
Base URL
The base URL for this endpoint is your Configuration API domain followed by /config/ followed by your application ID. For example, if you are in the US region and your application ID is htb8fuhxnf8e38jrzub3c7pfrr, then your base URL would be:
https://v1.api.us.janrain.com/config/htb8fuhxnf8e38jrzub3c7pfrr
Allowed regions are:
- us
- eu
- au
- sa
- cn
- sg
Sample Request (curl)
This command returns the all attributes associated with the user entity type and the application htb8fuhxnf8e38jrzub3c7pfrr.
curl -G \-H 'Authorization: Basic c2dueXZ1czZwYzRqbTdraHIybmVxNWdzODlnYnIyZXE6d3Q0YzN1bjl3a2tjZnZ5a25xeDQ0eW5jNDc2YWZzNjg' \ https://v1.api.us.janrain.com/config/htb8fuhxnf8e38jrzub3c7pfrr/entityTypes/user/attributes
Running this command in Postman
Responses
200 OK
If your call to this endpoint succeeds, you'll get back information for each attribute in the specified entity type. For more information about the attribute properties returned by the call, see Viewing Schema Information:
{
"_self": "/config/htb8fuhxnf8e38jrzub3c7pfrr/entityTypes/user/attributes",
"attributes": [
{
"_self": "/config/htb8fuhxnf8e38jrzub3c7pfrr/entityTypes/user/attributes/id",
"required": false,
"description": "simple identifier for this entity",
"reverse-query": false,
"ignore-update": null,
"query": false,
"unique": false,
"case-sensitive": null,
"name": "id",
"locally-unique": false,
"default": null,
"primary-key": false,
"length": null,
"type": "id"
},
}
]
}
Error Codes
The following table includes information about some of the error codes that you could encounter when calling this endpoint.
Error Code | Description |
|---|---|
401/403 | Error Message: Authentication required. You either failed to provide credentials or provided invalid credentials. This endpoint requires Basic authentication. |
404 | Error Message: Application ID not found. You did not provide a valid application ID. |
If you encounter an error when calling this endpoint that error message will look similar to this:
{
"errors": "Authentication required."
}
