POST community/create-community

Create a community

Request Information

Headers

HTTP_AUTHORIZATION: Required. OAuth 1.0 parameters with the OAuth signature of the url you are going to request. The consumer keys and access token can be obtained from the community administration.

Sample:

        HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:
            OAuth oauth_token="CObXqjfOisVh9%2F2GjC7NNd8BCzY%3D",
            oauth_consumer_key="clGACsiGaMp%2FD%2BUwkSvRBxA1k50%3D",
            oauth_nonce="VqKza6d5x1HpPQWFe08spbdOnkTQpfaLfD9Oeuyg",
            oauth_signature_method="HMAC-SHA1",
            oauth_timestamp="1462882011",
            oauth_signature="RH5aKKKJaEvK5cIsZZzXtFh7cCk%3D"

Body Parameters

Name	Description	Type	Additional information
community_name	Name	string	Required
community_short_name	Short name	string	Required
description	Brief Description	string	Required
tags	Tags (comma separated)	string	Required
type	Type: 0 for standard communities, 5 for static catalogs, 8 for static catalogs without members	integer	Required
access_type	Acces type: 0: public (Any user can be member), 1: private (Only users with invitation can be members), 2: restricted (users can request access, but admin must accept the requests), 3: reserved (private community childred of other private community)	integer	Required
parent_community_short_name	Parent community short name	string	Optional
admin_id	User identificator of the administrator of the community	globally unique identifier	Required
organization_short_name	Organization short name of the user	string	Optional
logo	Logo for the community	Collection of byte	Optional

Request Formats

application/json, text/json

Sample:

{
  "community_name": "Developers",
  "community_short_name": "developers",
  "description": "Developers community",
  "tags": "developers, devs, programming",
  "type": 0,
  "access_type": 0,
  "admin_id": "50b7615f-e32d-469d-ad93-d5829ab983ef",
  "logo": "CAk="
}

Response Information

Response HTTP status code

On success, the response contains 200 code.

On fail, throws a WebException with code:

401 Unauthorized if the OAuth signature is invalid
400 Bad Request if the params are invalid
500 Internal server error if something goes wrong...