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Preview an event subscription

POST
https://api.getsitecontrol.com/v1/sites/{site_id}/event-subscriptions/{event_subscription_id}/preview
curl --request POST \
--url https://api.getsitecontrol.com/v1/sites/1/event-subscriptions/1/preview \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{ "event_type": "example" }'

Renders the request a saved event subscription would send for a sample event, and sends nothing. Call it to check a template after a change, or to see the data a template can read.

The sample is the latest response of the filtered widgets, or the latest contact, from the last 30 days, otherwise a made-up one (sample). payload is the default payload of the sample: the data a template reads. A template that fails on the sample gives render_error and request: null. Secret header values read ***. Spends the heavy request limit.

FieldDescription
site_id
required
Site Id
integer
event_subscription_id
required
Event Subscription Id

Event subscription id from list_event_subscriptions

integer
>= 1 < 9223372036854776000

Event subscription id from list_event_subscriptions

FieldDescription
Idempotency-Key
Idempotency-Key

Makes a retry of a POST safe: a repeat with the same key, body and GSC-Version returns the stored response with Idempotency-Replayed: true instead of running again. The key protects against repeated execution while the key store works. Saving the change and storing the response under the key are not atomic: if the process or the key store fails between them, the change is kept, the key is released after 15 minutes and a retry runs the request again. After a timeout or a 5xx, read the resource to check the result before retrying. 5xx and 429 responses and responses over 256 KB are not stored, so a repeat runs the request again. A key is kept for 24 hours. The same key with another body or version is 422; a repeat while the first request runs is 409.

string
>= 1 characters <= 128 characters /^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+$/

Makes a retry of a POST safe: a repeat with the same key, body and GSC-Version returns the stored response with Idempotency-Replayed: true instead of running again. The key protects against repeated execution while the key store works. Saving the change and storing the response under the key are not atomic: if the process or the key store fails between them, the change is kept, the key is released after 15 minutes and a retry runs the request again. After a timeout or a 5xx, read the resource to check the result before retrying. 5xx and 429 responses and responses over 256 KB are not stored, so a repeat runs the request again. A key is kept for 24 hours. The same key with another body or version is 422; a repeat while the first request runs is 409.

Media typeapplication/json
EventTypeChoice
object
FieldDescription
event_type
Event Type

The event to use, one of the event subscription’s events; the first when left out

string
nullable

Example · Generated

{
"event_type": "example"
}

Successful Response

Media typeapplication/json
EventSubscriptionPreview
object
FieldDescription
event_type
required
Event Type

The event rendered

string
sample
required
Sample

Where the sample comes from. last_response: the latest response of the filtered widgets within 30 days; last_contact: the latest contact within 30 days; synthetic: made up, from the widget’s fields for a response. More values may appear

string
payload
required
Payload

The default payload of the sample, the template context source

object
request
Request

Null when the templates fail on the sample

object
FieldDescription
method
required
Method
string
url
required
Url

With placeholders filled; in the journal query values read ***

string
content_type
Content Type

Content-Type sent

string
nullable
headers
required
Headers

Headers set on the event subscription; secret ones read ***, and in the journal Authorization and Cookie too. The webhook-* signature headers are added when sending

object
FieldDescription
key
additional properties
string
body
Body

The body as sent, as text

string
nullable
render_error
Render Error

Why a template failed on the sample; null when it rendered

object
FieldDescription
loc
required
Loc

The template that failed: ["url"] or ["body"]

Array
message
required
Message
string

Example · Generated

{
"event_type": "example",
"sample": "example",
"payload": {},
"request": {
"method": "example",
"url": "example",
"content_type": "example",
"headers": {
"additionalProperty": "example"
},
"body": "example"
},
"render_error": {
"loc": [
"example"
],
"message": "example"
}
}
FieldDescription
GSC-Version
string

API version the response was produced for

X-Request-Id
string

Request id, echoed from the request when valid

X-RateLimit-Limit
integer

Limit of the tightest bucket

X-RateLimit-Remaining
integer

Requests left in its window

X-RateLimit-Reset
integer

End of its window, epoch seconds

Idempotency-Replayed
string

True when the response is a stored one, replayed

Unsupported GSC-Version

Media typeapplication/problem+json
Problem

The documented shape of every error body on the versioned surface.

object
FieldDescription
type
required
Type
string
title
required
Title
string
status
required
Status
integer
detail
Detail
string
nullable
instance
required
Instance
string
reason
Reason
string
nullable
next
Next
string
nullable
request_id
required
Request Id
string
errors
Errors
Array<object>
nullable
ValidationIssue
object
FieldDescription
loc
required
Loc
Array
msg
required
Msg
string
type
required
Type
string
metadata
Metadata
object

Example · Generated

{
"type": "example",
"title": "example",
"status": 1,
"detail": "example",
"instance": "example",
"reason": "example",
"next": "example",
"request_id": "example",
"errors": [
{
"loc": [
"example"
],
"msg": "example",
"type": "example"
}
],
"metadata": {}
}
FieldDescription
GSC-Version
string

API version the response was produced for

X-Request-Id
string

Request id, echoed from the request when valid

X-RateLimit-Limit
integer

Limit of the tightest bucket

X-RateLimit-Remaining
integer

Requests left in its window

X-RateLimit-Reset
integer

End of its window, epoch seconds

Missing or invalid API key or access token

Media typeapplication/problem+json
Problem

The documented shape of every error body on the versioned surface.

object
FieldDescription
type
required
Type
string
title
required
Title
string
status
required
Status
integer
detail
Detail
string
nullable
instance
required
Instance
string
reason
Reason
string
nullable
next
Next
string
nullable
request_id
required
Request Id
string
errors
Errors
Array<object>
nullable
ValidationIssue
object
FieldDescription
loc
required
Loc
Array
msg
required
Msg
string
type
required
Type
string
metadata
Metadata
object

Example · Generated

{
"type": "example",
"title": "example",
"status": 1,
"detail": "example",
"instance": "example",
"reason": "example",
"next": "example",
"request_id": "example",
"errors": [
{
"loc": [
"example"
],
"msg": "example",
"type": "example"
}
],
"metadata": {}
}
FieldDescription
GSC-Version
string

API version the response was produced for

X-Request-Id
string

Request id, echoed from the request when valid

X-RateLimit-Limit
integer

Limit of the tightest bucket

X-RateLimit-Remaining
integer

Requests left in its window

X-RateLimit-Reset
integer

End of its window, epoch seconds

WWW-Authenticate
string

Authentication scheme: Bearer

Access denied

Media typeapplication/problem+json
Problem

The documented shape of every error body on the versioned surface.

object
FieldDescription
type
required
Type
string
title
required
Title
string
status
required
Status
integer
detail
Detail
string
nullable
instance
required
Instance
string
reason
Reason
string
nullable
next
Next
string
nullable
request_id
required
Request Id
string
errors
Errors
Array<object>
nullable
ValidationIssue
object
FieldDescription
loc
required
Loc
Array
msg
required
Msg
string
type
required
Type
string
metadata
Metadata
object

Example · Generated

{
"type": "example",
"title": "example",
"status": 1,
"detail": "example",
"instance": "example",
"reason": "example",
"next": "example",
"request_id": "example",
"errors": [
{
"loc": [
"example"
],
"msg": "example",
"type": "example"
}
],
"metadata": {}
}
FieldDescription
GSC-Version
string

API version the response was produced for

X-Request-Id
string

Request id, echoed from the request when valid

X-RateLimit-Limit
integer

Limit of the tightest bucket

X-RateLimit-Remaining
integer

Requests left in its window

X-RateLimit-Reset
integer

End of its window, epoch seconds

Media typeapplication/problem+json

event_subscription_not_found: no event subscription with this id on the site; site_not_found: no such site

Problem

The documented shape of every error body on the versioned surface.

object
FieldDescription
type
required
Type
string
title
required
Title
string
status
required
Status
integer
detail
Detail
string
nullable
instance
required
Instance
string
reason
Reason
string
nullable
next
Next
string
nullable
request_id
required
Request Id
string
errors
Errors
Array<object>
nullable
ValidationIssue
object
FieldDescription
loc
required
Loc
Array
msg
required
Msg
string
type
required
Type
string
metadata
Metadata
object

Example · Generated

{
"type": "example",
"title": "example",
"status": 1,
"detail": "example",
"instance": "example",
"reason": "example",
"next": "example",
"request_id": "example",
"errors": [
{
"loc": [
"example"
],
"msg": "example",
"type": "example"
}
],
"metadata": {}
}
FieldDescription
GSC-Version
string

API version the response was produced for

X-Request-Id
string

Request id, echoed from the request when valid

X-RateLimit-Limit
integer

Limit of the tightest bucket

X-RateLimit-Remaining
integer

Requests left in its window

X-RateLimit-Reset
integer

End of its window, epoch seconds

Conflict

Media typeapplication/problem+json
Problem

The documented shape of every error body on the versioned surface.

object
FieldDescription
type
required
Type
string
title
required
Title
string
status
required
Status
integer
detail
Detail
string
nullable
instance
required
Instance
string
reason
Reason
string
nullable
next
Next
string
nullable
request_id
required
Request Id
string
errors
Errors
Array<object>
nullable
ValidationIssue
object
FieldDescription
loc
required
Loc
Array
msg
required
Msg
string
type
required
Type
string
metadata
Metadata
object

Example · Generated

{
"type": "example",
"title": "example",
"status": 1,
"detail": "example",
"instance": "example",
"reason": "example",
"next": "example",
"request_id": "example",
"errors": [
{
"loc": [
"example"
],
"msg": "example",
"type": "example"
}
],
"metadata": {}
}
FieldDescription
GSC-Version
string

API version the response was produced for

X-Request-Id
string

Request id, echoed from the request when valid

X-RateLimit-Limit
integer

Limit of the tightest bucket

X-RateLimit-Remaining
integer

Requests left in its window

X-RateLimit-Reset
integer

End of its window, epoch seconds

Request body too large

Media typeapplication/problem+json
Problem

The documented shape of every error body on the versioned surface.

object
FieldDescription
type
required
Type
string
title
required
Title
string
status
required
Status
integer
detail
Detail
string
nullable
instance
required
Instance
string
reason
Reason
string
nullable
next
Next
string
nullable
request_id
required
Request Id
string
errors
Errors
Array<object>
nullable
ValidationIssue
object
FieldDescription
loc
required
Loc
Array
msg
required
Msg
string
type
required
Type
string
metadata
Metadata
object

Example · Generated

{
"type": "example",
"title": "example",
"status": 1,
"detail": "example",
"instance": "example",
"reason": "example",
"next": "example",
"request_id": "example",
"errors": [
{
"loc": [
"example"
],
"msg": "example",
"type": "example"
}
],
"metadata": {}
}
FieldDescription
GSC-Version
string

API version the response was produced for

X-Request-Id
string

Request id, echoed from the request when valid

X-RateLimit-Limit
integer

Limit of the tightest bucket

X-RateLimit-Remaining
integer

Requests left in its window

X-RateLimit-Reset
integer

End of its window, epoch seconds

validation_failed: event_type is not one of the event subscription’s events

Media typeapplication/problem+json
Problem

The documented shape of every error body on the versioned surface.

object
FieldDescription
type
required
Type
string
title
required
Title
string
status
required
Status
integer
detail
Detail
string
nullable
instance
required
Instance
string
reason
Reason
string
nullable
next
Next
string
nullable
request_id
required
Request Id
string
errors
Errors
Array<object>
nullable
ValidationIssue
object
FieldDescription
loc
required
Loc
Array
msg
required
Msg
string
type
required
Type
string
metadata
Metadata
object

Example · Generated

{
"type": "example",
"title": "example",
"status": 1,
"detail": "example",
"instance": "example",
"reason": "example",
"next": "example",
"request_id": "example",
"errors": [
{
"loc": [
"example"
],
"msg": "example",
"type": "example"
}
],
"metadata": {}
}
FieldDescription
GSC-Version
string

API version the response was produced for

X-Request-Id
string

Request id, echoed from the request when valid

X-RateLimit-Limit
integer

Limit of the tightest bucket

X-RateLimit-Remaining
integer

Requests left in its window

X-RateLimit-Reset
integer

End of its window, epoch seconds

Rate limited

Media typeapplication/problem+json
Problem

The documented shape of every error body on the versioned surface.

object
FieldDescription
type
required
Type
string
title
required
Title
string
status
required
Status
integer
detail
Detail
string
nullable
instance
required
Instance
string
reason
Reason
string
nullable
next
Next
string
nullable
request_id
required
Request Id
string
errors
Errors
Array<object>
nullable
ValidationIssue
object
FieldDescription
loc
required
Loc
Array
msg
required
Msg
string
type
required
Type
string
metadata
Metadata
object

Example · Generated

{
"type": "example",
"title": "example",
"status": 1,
"detail": "example",
"instance": "example",
"reason": "example",
"next": "example",
"request_id": "example",
"errors": [
{
"loc": [
"example"
],
"msg": "example",
"type": "example"
}
],
"metadata": {}
}
FieldDescription
GSC-Version
string

API version the response was produced for

X-Request-Id
string

Request id, echoed from the request when valid

X-RateLimit-Limit
integer

Limit of the tightest bucket

X-RateLimit-Remaining
integer

Requests left in its window

X-RateLimit-Reset
integer

End of its window, epoch seconds

Retry-After
integer

Seconds until the bucket refills

Temporarily unavailable; retry later

Media typeapplication/problem+json
Problem

The documented shape of every error body on the versioned surface.

object
FieldDescription
type
required
Type
string
title
required
Title
string
status
required
Status
integer
detail
Detail
string
nullable
instance
required
Instance
string
reason
Reason
string
nullable
next
Next
string
nullable
request_id
required
Request Id
string
errors
Errors
Array<object>
nullable
ValidationIssue
object
FieldDescription
loc
required
Loc
Array
msg
required
Msg
string
type
required
Type
string
metadata
Metadata
object

Example · Generated

{
"type": "example",
"title": "example",
"status": 1,
"detail": "example",
"instance": "example",
"reason": "example",
"next": "example",
"request_id": "example",
"errors": [
{
"loc": [
"example"
],
"msg": "example",
"type": "example"
}
],
"metadata": {}
}
FieldDescription
GSC-Version
string

API version the response was produced for

X-Request-Id
string

Request id, echoed from the request when valid

X-RateLimit-Limit
integer

Limit of the tightest bucket

X-RateLimit-Remaining
integer

Requests left in its window

X-RateLimit-Reset
integer

End of its window, epoch seconds