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Create role

Request to create new role:

POST /api/v2/roles.json

HTTP body should contain JSON formatted profile of role to create.

For example:

{
    "role": {
        "name": "Supervisor Role",
        "tenant_id": "e00a4822-f288-11e4-b559-e03f497dbdff",
        "permissions": {
            "system": [],
            "users": ["view"],
            "calls": ["view", "categorize", "on_demand_trigger"],
        }
    }
}

Response contains HTTP status code as shown in the following table.

Response Description
201 Created

Role has been successfully created. HTTP header Location contains URL by which the newly created object should be know.

For example:

HTTP/1.1 201 Created Location: /api/v2/roles/e011c408-f288-11e4-9b73-e03f497dbdff.json
403 Forbidden The request cannot be completed because API user has no permission to create roles
400 Bad Request

The request cannot be completed because supplied JSON object has invalid data.

When response has content type application/json, then it contains more detailed description of error in JSON format like:

{"error": "InvalidRecord","description": "Record Validation errors","details": ["name": "Role with such name exists already"]}