School
This API is used to provide access to school information such as users, academics, admissions, athletics, content, lists, and general school info.
POST
Events category create
Returns the Id of the created Events Category
Requires one of the following roles in the Education Management system:
- Content Manager
- Platform Manager
Request URL
Request headers
| Header | Required | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Content-Type | string | Media type of the body sent to the API. | |
| Bb-Api-Subscription-Key | Property is required | string | Subscription key which provides access to this API. Found in your Profile. |
| Authorization | Property is required | string | OAuth 2.0 access token obtained from Blackbaud OAuth 2.0 Service. Supported grant types: Authorization code. |
Request body
{
"description": "Test Category",
"calendar_url": "http://www.example.com/calendar/test_calendar.ics",
"include_brief_description": true,
"include_long_description": false,
"public": true,
"roles": [
12345
]
}{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "The ID of the event category",
"format": "int32"
},
"description": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The name of the event category",
"nullable": true
},
"calendar_url": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The URL of the ICS feed used to populate the event category",
"nullable": true
},
"include_brief_description": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "If set to True, brief description is included in events in the category",
"nullable": true
},
"include_long_description": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "If set to True, long description is included in events in the category",
"nullable": true
},
"public": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "If set to True, the event category is public. If set to False, it is secure and only users with the allowed list of roles can see the events in the category",
"nullable": true
},
"roles": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "integer",
"format": "int32"
},
"description": "List of Role IDs that are allowed to see a secure event category",
"nullable": true
}
},
"additionalProperties": false,
"description": "Event Category Model"
}Response 200 OK
Success
{
"id": 4567
}{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Id",
"format": "int32"
}
},
"additionalProperties": false,
"description": "EventCategoryCreateResponseExample"
}Code samples
@ECHO OFF
curl -v -X POST "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/events/categories"
-H "Content-Type: application/json"
-H "Bb-Api-Subscription-Key: {subscription key}"
-H "Authorization: Bearer {access token}"
--data-ascii "{body}"
using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;
namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
static class Program
{
static void Main()
{
MakeRequest();
Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
Console.ReadLine();
}
static async void MakeRequest()
{
var client = new HttpClient();
var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);
// Request headers
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Bb-Api-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", "Bearer {access token}");
var uri = "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/events/categories?" + queryString;
// Request body
byte[] byteData = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("{body}");
using (var content = new ByteArrayContent(byteData))
{
content.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("< your content type, i.e. application/json >");
var response = await client.PostAsync(uri, content);
}
}
}
}// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
public class JavaSample
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();
try
{
URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/events/categories");
URI uri = builder.build();
HttpPost request = new HttpPost(uri);
request.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
request.setHeader("Bb-Api-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");
request.setHeader("Authorization", "Bearer {access token}");
// Request body
StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
request.setEntity(reqEntity);
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
if (entity != null)
{
System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
}
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>JSSample</title>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
var params = {
// Request parameters
};
$.ajax({
url: "https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/events/categories?" + $.param(params),
beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
// Request headers
xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Content-Type","application/json");
xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Bb-Api-Subscription-Key","{subscription key}");
xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Authorization","Bearer {access token}");
},
type: "POST",
// Request body
data: "{body}",
})
.done(function(data) {
alert("success");
})
.fail(function() {
alert("error");
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
NSString* path = @"https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/events/categories";
NSArray* array = @[
// Request parameters
@"entities=true",
];
NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];
NSLog(@"%@", path);
NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
[_request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
// Request headers
[_request setValue:@"application/json" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
[_request setValue:@"{subscription key}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Bb-Api-Subscription-Key"];
[_request setValue:@"Bearer {access token}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Authorization"];
// Request body
[_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
NSURLResponse *response = nil;
NSError *error = nil;
NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];
if (nil != error)
{
NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
}
else
{
NSError* error = nil;
NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
if (nil != _connectionData)
{
json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
}
if (error || !json)
{
NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
}
NSLog(@"%@", json);
_connectionData = nil;
}
[pool drain];
return 0;
}
<?php
// This sample uses the PEAR HTTP client from http://pear.php.net/package/HTTP_Request2
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';
$request = new Http_Request2('https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/events/categories');
$url = $request->getUrl();
$headers = array(
// Request headers
'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
'Bb-Api-Subscription-Key' => '{subscription key}',
'Authorization' => 'Bearer {access token}',
);
$request->setHeader($headers);
$parameters = array(
// Request parameters
);
$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);
$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_POST);
// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");
try
{
$response = $request->send();
echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
echo $ex;
}
?>########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64
headers = {
# Request headers
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'Bb-Api-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
'Authorization': 'Bearer {access token}',
}
params = urllib.urlencode({
})
try:
conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.sky.blackbaud.com')
conn.request("POST", "/school/v1/events/categories?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################
########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64
headers = {
# Request headers
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'Bb-Api-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
'Authorization': 'Bearer {access token}',
}
params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
})
try:
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('api.sky.blackbaud.com')
conn.request("POST", "/school/v1/events/categories?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################require 'net/http'
uri = URI('https://api.sky.blackbaud.com/school/v1/events/categories')
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.request_uri)
# Request headers
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
request['Bb-Api-Subscription-Key'] = '{subscription key}'
request['Authorization'] = 'Bearer {access token}'
# Request body
request.body = "{body}"
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
http.request(request)
end
puts response.body
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