(Quick Reference) Service: Update an employee

Description: Returns the updated employee in json format when successful. Returns a json response, describing the failure condition when unsuccessful.

URL:

https://BASE_URL/api/VERSION/employees/{id}

URL with external_id:

https://BASE_URL/api/VERSION/employees/reference/{id}

Method: POST

Request content type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded or multipart/form-data

Parameters:

NameDescriptionTypeRequiredExample values
idid of the desired employee to updateLongYes777
reference Stringyes 
firstName Stringyes 
lastName Stringyes 
employeeGroupIdThe ID of the employee group.Long/Stringno 
managerIdThe ID of employee.Long/Stringno 
enabledBy default, it is set to trueBooleannotrue, false
mobile Stringno 
imageFileImage of employee can be in jpg, gif, png or bmp formatmultipartno 

Success Output

Success case: response.status=200

{
  "id": 22,
  "reference": "emp22",
  "firstName": "Jane",
  "lastName": "Doe",
  "mobile": "001-555-555-1212",
  "enabled": true,
  "managerReference": "emp-00",
  "employeeGroupReference": "60837-111",
  "manager": {
    "id": 3,
    "reference": "emp-00",
    "href": "/api/v1.0/employees/3"
  },
  "employeeGroup": {
    "id": 1,
    "reference": "60837-111",
    "name": "Group1",
    "href": "/api/v1.0/employeeGroups/1"
  },
  "avatar": null,
  "organization": "entity1",
  "dateCreated": "2016-08-17T13:45:17Z",
  "lastUpdated": "2016-08-17T13:45:17Z"
}

To get resized images, add prefix small_ or medium_ to the link url before the image's name, for example:
<BASE_URL>/entity1-1450169988465/avatar/medium_1471442935596_1448038178_supportfemale.png

Failure Output

Failure case:response.status = 400

{
  "error": "save_failed",
  "error_description": "Failed to save instance."
}

{
  "error": "not_unique",
  "error_description": "reference already used"
}

{
  "error": "missing_param",
  "error_description": "firstName parameter is missing"
}
{
  "error": "unsupported_file_type",
  "error_description": "image format not supported."
}

{
  "error": "exceeded_file_size",
  "error_description": "image size should not exceed 2Mo"
}

Failure case:response.status = 404

{
  "error": "not_found",
  "error_description": "The manager with the id 22 doesn't exist."
}

Failure case:response.status = 500
{
  "error": "server_error",
  "error_description": "Oops! Something went wrong..."
}