Endpoint URL: {identityDomain}/{customerId}/webhooks/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}
Enables you to view modify, or delete a webhooks subscription.
This endpoint supports the following methods:
- GET
- PATCH
- DELETE
Base URL
The base URL for this endpoint is your Identity Cloud API URL, including the appropriate region. For example, if you are in the US region, then your base URL will look like this:
If you are in the Australian (AU) region your base URL will look like this:
Authentication
This endpoint requires token-based authentication. To obtain an access token, you must use a confidential client (using the client ID as the username and the client secret as the password) to access the /{customerId}/login/token endpoint. The access token returned from that endpoint is then used in the Authorization header of your API call. For example, if you get back the access token 03v-eeodppPrrHXXIx56pRLyDBaOldDxqEwI59MFCFGVuSkLRapzgmfwmEHyKWle then your Authorization header will look like this when using Curl:
In Postman, set the Authorization Type to Bearer and use the access token as the value of the Token field.
GET
Description
Returns information about the specified webhooks subscription. Webhook subscriptions determine the event types that trigger near real-time notifications: when one of these events occurs, a webhooks notification is sent to a listener endpoint created and maintained by the organization associated with the subscription.
URL path parameters
Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
{customerId} | UUID | Yes | Unique identifier of the organization (customer) associated with the webhooks subscription. For example: 9bc867ed-1f10-420f-8d90-398fde4e4779 |
{subscriptionId} | UUID | Yes | Unique identifier of the webhooks subscription being returned. For example: 454fe969-1909-4e93-b552-674d47eafdb0 |
Request Parameters
No additional parameters are required to call this endpoint.
Sample Request (curl)
The following command returns information about the webhooks subscription with the subscription ID 454fe969-1909-4e93-b552-674d47eafdb0:
curl -X GET \
https://v1.api.us.janrain.com/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/webhooks/subscriptions/454fe969-1909-4e93-b552-674d47eafdb0 \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer Xk7EzdpGq5GPQcsxCWM2SxdlwU_iTsA4i2Px4TEzBrfLIvddjnDVBJxjPDuCARHH'
Responses
200 OK
If your call to this endpoint succeeds, you'll get back detailed information about the specified webhooks subscription:
{
"subscriptionId": "454fe969-1909-4e93-b552-674d47eafdb0",
"customerId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
"createdAt": "2020-01-27T16:53:36.309183Z",
"updatedAt": "2020-01-27T16:53:36.309183Z",
"title": "Gregs test subscription",
"endpoint": "https://webhook.site/46ff3c5e-ae95-43df-b32d-d07bb84746b4",
"events": [
"entityCreated",
"entityUpdated",
"entityDeleted"
],
"enabled": true,
"_links": {
"self": {
"href": "/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/webhooks/subscriptions/454fe969-1909-4e93-b552-674d47eafdb0"
}
}
}
Error Response Codes
The following table includes information about some of the other response codes that you might encounter when calling this endpoint.
Response Code | Description |
403 | Forbidden. You do not have permission to access the requested resource. You will often see this error if you are using an expired access token. By default, access tokens can only be used for one hour before they need to be replaced. |
404 | Not found. The specified customer and/or the specific webhooks subscription could not be found. |
PATCH
Description
Modifies a webhooks subscription. Webhook subscriptions specify the event types that trigger near real-time notifications: when one of these events occurs, a webhooks notification is sent to a listener endpoint created and maintained by the organization associated with the subscription.
URL path parameters
Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
{customerId} | UUID | Yes | Unique identifier of the organization (customer) whose webhooks subscription is being modified. For example: 9bc867ed-1f10-420f-8d90-398fde4e4779 |
{subscriptionId} | UUID | Yes | Unique identifier of the webhooks subscription being modified. For example: 454fe969-1909-4e93-b552-674d47eafdb0 |
Request Parameters
Request parameters must be formatted as JSON objects and included in your API call’s body parameter. Valid request parameters include the following:
Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
enabled | boolean | No | Boolean value indicating whether the webhooks subscription is enabled or disabled. When a subscription is disabled, webhooks will not attempt to deliver any events for that subscription. For example: "enabled": false The default value is true. |
endpoint | URL | Yes | URL of the webhooks listener endpoint. For example: "endpoint": "https://listener.documentation.akamai.com" See the article Configuring Webhook Listener Endpoints for information about the allowed (and disallowed) URL types. |
events | string array | Yes | Array of Identity Cloud events that the webhooks subscription responds to. For example: "events": ["entityCreated", "entityDeleted", "entityUpdated"] |
title | string | Yes | “Friendly” name given to the webhooks subscription. The title must contain at least 2, but no more than 200, characters. For example: "title": "Akamai Documentation Webhooks Subscription" Note that titles must be unique across a specific customer. For example, Customer A can only have one subscription with the title Webhooks Subscription; any attempt to create a second subscription with this same title will fail. However, Customers B, C, D, and E can all have a subscription with the title Webhooks Subscription. |
Headers
The following header must be included in your API call:
Parameter | Required | Parameter Value |
|---|---|---|
Content-Type | Yes | application/merge-patch+json |
Sample Request (curl)
The following command modifies the webhooks subscription with the ID 454fe969-1909-4e93-b552-674d47eafdb0:
curl -X PATCH \
https://v1.api.us.janrain.com/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/webhooks/subscriptions/454fe969-1909-4e93-b552-674d47eafdb0 \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer Xk7EzdpGq5GPQcsxCWM2SxdlwU_iTsA4i2Px4TEzBrfLIvddjnDVBJxjPDuCARHH'
-H 'Content-Type: application/merge-patch+json' \
-d '{
"enabled": true,
"endpoint":"https;//webhooks.documentation.akamai.com",
"events": ["entityCreated", "entityDeleted", "entityUpdated","entityPurged"],
"title": "Akamai Documentation Webhooks Subscription"
}'Responses
200 OK
If your call to this endpoint succeeds, you'll get back updated property values for the subscription:
"subscriptionId": "454fe969-1909-4e93-b552-674d47eafdb0",
"customerId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
"createdAt": "2020-01-27T16:53:36.309183Z", "updatedAt": "2020-01-28T19:36:47.514908Z",
"title": " Akamai Documentation Webhooks Subscription ",
"endpoint":" https;//webhooks.documentation.akamai.com",
"events": [
"entityCreated",
"entityDeleted"
],
"enabled": true,
"_links": {
"self": {
"href": "/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/webhooks/subscriptions/454fe969-1909-4e93-b552-674d47eafdb0"
} }
}Error Response Codes
The following table includes information about some of the other response codes that you might encounter when calling this endpoint.
Response Code | Description |
400 | Bad Request. This typically means that your API request did not pass the JSON schema validation. Verify that you are using correctly-formatted JSON in the request parameter and then try again. |
403 | Forbidden. You do not have permission to access the requested resource. You will often see this error if you are using an expired access token. By default, access tokens can only be used for one hour before they need to be replaced. |
404 | Not found. The specified customer and/or the specific webhooks subscription could not be found. |
DELETE
Description
Deletes the specified webhook subscription. After a subscription has been deleted organizations no longer receive notifications for the event types associated with the subscription. In addition, any events still in the event store that are associated with the subscription are deleted.
URL path parameters
Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
{customerId} | UUID | Yes | Unique identifier of the organization (customer) associated with the webhooks subscription being deleted. For example: 9bc867ed-1f10-420f-8d90-398fde4e4779 |
{subscriptionId} | UUID | Yes | Unique identifier of the webhooks subscription being deleted. For example: 454fe969-1909-4e93-b552-674d47eafdb0 |
Request Parameters
No request parameters are required in order to call this endpoint.
Sample Request (curl)
The following command deletes the webhook subscription with the ID 454fe969-1909-4e93-b552-674d47eafdb0:
curl -X DELETE \
https://v1.api.us.janrain.com/9bc867ed-1f10-420f-8d90-398fde4e4779/webhooks/subscriptions/454fe969-1909-4e93-b552-674d47eafdb0 \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer Xk7EzdpGq5GPQcsxCWM2SxdlwU_iTsA4i2Px4TEzBrfLIvddjnDVBJxjPDuCARHH' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' Responses
204 No Content
If your call to this endpoint succeeds, you won’t get back a full API response. Instead, you'll get back a 204 No Content status code.
Error Response Codes
The following table includes information about some of the other response codes that you might encounter when calling this endpoint.
Response Code | Description |
403 | Forbidden. You do not have permission to access the requested resource. You will often see this error if you are using an expired access token. By default, access tokens can only be used for one hour before they need to be replaced. |
404 | Not found. The specified customer and/or the specific webhooks subscription could not be found. |