Meride API - Category - Update

This page explains how to update Category elements.

Entity name: category.

PUT http://API_DOMAIN/rest/v2/category/{resource-id}.{format}

{resource-id}: the object ID

Attributes

Parameter Value Mandatory
title A non-empty string NO
father_id ID of the parent category you want to associate. Pass an empty string if you want to delete the associated parent NO
description A string NO

Response

Field Value Description
id string Object ID
title string Object title
description string The associated description
created_at string The create date that follows the format Y-m-d H:i:s
Y(year) m(month) d(day) H(hours) i(minutes) s(seconds)
father_id int Father category ID

Example of a request

curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type:application/json" -H "access-token: [your-access-token]" -H "X-HTTP-Method-Override: PUT" -X POST http://API_DOMAIN/rest/v2/category/2.json -d '
{
    "title": "New title"
}'
            

Example of a JSON response

{
	"id":"2",
	"title":"New title",
	"description":null,
	"created_at":"2013-02-06 17:11:03",
	"father_id": null
}            

Note The updated object will be returned as a response

Note The PUT method is not supported by all systems. In case of problems, add the parameter to the Header of the callX-HTTP-Method-Override: PUT and use the method POST as default

PHP SDK documentation
$merideApi = new Meride\Api('[your-auth-code]', 'http://API_DOMAIN/', 'v2');
$response = $merideApi->update('category', '2', array (
  'title' => 'New title',
));