Description: this web service is used in order to update an existing survey to the data base and finally returns the updated instance in JSON format.
URL:
https://BASE_URL/api/VERSION/surveys/{id}Method: PUT
Request content type: application/json
Parameters:
| Name | Description | Type | Required | Possible values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| id | id of the desired record to update | Long | Yes | 777 |
| name | the name of the survey | String | yes | |
| description | it contains the description of the survey | String | no | |
| enabled | It indicates the status of the survey | Boolean | no | true, false |
| isPublic | it indicate if the survey is destined to a specified users or not | Boolean | no | true, false |
| answerOnce | It indicated if the survey can be answered just one time or not set to true by default | Boolean | no | true, false |
| showAllAtOnce | It indicated if the survey questions will be showed all at once or not set to false by default | Boolean | no | true, false |
| users | the list of users for private survey | List | - | [18,19] |
| useExternalId | By default, it is set to false. set it to true if you want to use external ids. | Boolean | no | true , false |
A survey can only be update if the is no answers to the questions related to it
Success Output
Success case: response.status = 200
{
"id": 71,
"name": "Survey of productivity",
"description": "this survey contains some questions about the productivity of our product",
"isPublic": false,
"status": true,
"organization": "entity1",
"dateCreated": "2016-08-31T16:10:21Z",
"lastUpdated": "2016-08-31T16:10:21Z",
"answerOnce": true,
"showAllAtOnce": false,
"users": [
{
"id": 3,
"reference": "R002",
"firstName": "LUFY",
"lastName": "MONKEYD",
"href": "/api/v1.0/users/3"
},
{
"id": 2,
"reference": "R001",
"firstName": "SADOK",
"lastName": "CHEBIL",
"href": "/api/v1.0/users/2"
}
]
"questions": []
}
Failure Output
Failure case:response.status = 400
{
"error": "missing_param",
"error_description": "name parameter is missing"
}{
"error": "invalid_param_type",
"error_description": "The type of parameter users you provided is not valid for this request."
}{
"error": "invalid_param_type",
"error_description": "An invalid value was specified for parameter: answerOnce (must be Boolean)"
}{
"error": "save_failed",
"error_description": "Failed to save instance"
}{
"error": "update_not_authorized",
"error_description": "Survey with answers could not be updated"
}Failure case:response.status = 404
{
"error": "not_found",
"error_description": "The user with the id 999 doesn't exist."
}Failure case:response.status = 500
{
{
"error": "server_error",
"error_description": "Oops! Something went wrong..."
}
}