POST /administrator/restfulsimplifiednode/

Create a Node.

The underlying data model where the item is created is defined in devilry.apps.core.models.Node. The Simplified API that the server forwards this request to is devilry.apps.administrator.simplified.simplifiednode.SimplifiedNode.create().

Request

Example

POST /administrator/restfulsimplifiednode/

{
    long_name: "My example value",
    short_name: "my_example001_value",
    parentnode: 15
}

Required request parameters

The following request parameters are encoded as a JSON object and sent as the request body as shown in the example above.

long_name

Actual location of the field:

devilry.apps.core.models.Node

About the field:

A longer name, more descriptive than “Short name”. This is the name visible to students.

Type

String

short_name

Actual location of the field:

devilry.apps.core.models.Node

About the field:

Max 20 characters. Only numbers, lowercase characters, ‘_’ and ‘-‘.

Type

String

parentnode

Actual location of the field:

devilry.apps.core.models.Node

About the field:

Autogenerated identifier.

Type

Integer

Response

On success

Example

201 CREATED

{
    long_name: "My example value",
    short_name: "my_example001_value",
    parentnode: 15,
    id: 15
}

Success response details

As long as the Node is created without an error, the response is HTTP 201 with the requested data in the body. The result always contains the request data with the id field added, however some values may have been changed due to logic performed on the server before saving.

On error

On errors, we respond with one of the HTTP Error status codes.