Model API

This API uses model objects to facilitate the display of attributes for a specified model. Each model contains attributes that allow third-party systems to retrieve models and model attributes within the platform. These models can be fully developed in an external system and then passed to the platform. It is also possible to configure models natively within the platform and then allow any 3rd party system to retrieve or modify those models. Currently models are limited to 200 attributes per single model.

The SessionM has implemented a model called user_profiles, which expresses data for a customers' custom profiles. This, however, is only one implementation. Ultimately, the Model API can be used to create models that represent any type of data.

API Contingencies and Combinations:

Since this model reflects the attributes defined for customers, you must create customers before you can access their associated model attributes. Use the Standard Profile API to create customer and specify the attributes for their standard profiles. Use the Custom Profile API to specify attributes for their custom profile.

This API provides a method that retrieves all the current attributes associated with a customer model.

Retrieve a Customer Model

Returns a single customer model, based on the provided model name. The model returned contains the associated custom profile.

Endpoints

This method offers the following endpoints:

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REST Endpoints

GET /priv/v1/apps/:api_key/models/:model_name

For more information on how to specify an endpoint as part of an actual URL, see Before You Begin. The procedure in this section includes a sample URL for a customer transaction.

Endpoint Parameters

The following parameters are available when specifying the endpoint for this method:

Endpoint Parameter	Description
api_key	Supplied by the SessionM Platform, the API key is necessary to authenticate any HTTP request to a SessionM API. This key is associated to an API secret, which ties the authentication to a specific application or web site within the organization. The platform maintains each application or site as a digital property, something that can be configured using the SessionM UI.
model_name	Identifier for an organization customer model in the SessionM Platform. For example: `GET /v1/apps/:api_key/models/user_profiles`. This is the default customer model for the SessionM Platform. An organization may have multiple models.

Request Object

Not applicable.

Response Object

In addition to a status value-pair for the transaction, the response object returned by the method contains a model object, which is shown below:

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JSON Response

{
    "model": {
        "attributes": {
            "nickname": {
                "filters": [
                    "Downcase"
                ],
                "length": {
                    "maximum": 20,
                    "minimum": 2
                },
                "list": false,
                "type": "string"
            },
            "total_amount": {
                "list": false,
                "numericality": {
                    "greater_than_or_equal_to": 0
                },
                "type": "integer"
            }
        },
        "name": "user_profiles",
        "request_key": "user_profile",
        "version": "a79dd212-8b44-11e6-9a2f-322cc1d29f66"
    },
    "status": "ok"
}

The following table documents this object:

Response Attributes for Model

Attribute	Type	Description
attributes	object	Contains two "child" objects, nickname and total_amount. Each of these objects are client-defined custom attributes. For information on the rules governing attribute definition, see Attribute Definition Characteristics.
name	string	Name of the customer model.
request_key	string	Identifier for the associated request object.
version	string	Version of the customer model.

Statuses and Errors

When this method makes a successful call to the platform, it returns a 200-level status code. When the string returned with a 200-level status code is ok, the transaction did process. But, if the string returned is error, you need to discover what type of error occurred.

Returned errors can be either method-specific or generic. The platform returns the following error messages for this method:

Code	Reason
not_found	Indicates that the specified customer model was not found in the system.

For information on the generic statuses and errors returned for any object, see the associated section in Generic Statuses and Errors.