(Quick Reference)
Service: Upsert an employee
Description: This web service is used to insert an employee object to the database if it does not already exist, or update it.
URL with external_id:
https://BASE_URL/api/VERSION/employees/reference/{id}: POST
Request content type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded or multipart/form-data
Parameters:
| Name | Description | Type | Required | Example values |
|---|
| reference | | String | yes | |
| firstName | | String | yes | |
| lastName | | String | yes | |
| employeeGroupId | The ID of the employee group. | String | no | |
| managerId | The ID of employee. | String | no | |
| enabled | By default, it is set to true | Boolean | no | true, false |
| mobile | | String | no | |
| imageFile | Image of employee can be in jpg, gif, png or bmp format | multipart | no | |
Success Output
Success case: response.status=201
{
"id": 22,
"reference": "emp_22",
"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": "BASE_URL/entity1-1450169988465/avatar/1471442935596_1448038178_supportfemale.png",
"organization": "entity1",
"dateCreated": "2016-08-17T13:45:17Z",
"lastUpdated": "2016-08-17T14:08:55Z"
}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..."
}
