PUT Users

Updates a user with new attributes.

Endpoint URL: https://api.carnivalmobile.com/v6/users/:user_id

Parameters

Path Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Definition
user_id	string	Yes	The Sailthru Mobile user ID

Body Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Definition
user	object	Yes	JSON model of User Attributes

Examples

Date

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# Single attribute
curl -X PUT -u :$API_KEY -d \
  '{
    "user": {
      "custom": {
        "my_date": {
          "value": "2012-04-23T18:25:00Z",
          "type" : "date"        }
      }
    }
  }' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json' https://api.carnivalmobile.com/v6/users/$user_id
  
# Array
curl -X PUT -u :$API_KEY -d \
  '{
    "user": {
      "custom": {
        "my_dates_key": {
          "value": ["2012-04-23T18:25:00Z", "2012-05-23T18:25:00Z"],
          "type": "date"        }
      }
    }
  }' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json' https://api.carnivalmobile.com/v6/users/$user_id

String

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# Single attribute
curl -X PUT -H "Accept: application/json" -u :API_KEY -d \
  '{
    "user": {
      "custom": {
        "my_string_key": {
          "value": "My string value",
          "type" : "string"        }
      }
    }
  }' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json' https://api.carnivalmobile.com/v6/users/:user_id

# Array
curl -X PUT -u :API_KEY -d \
  '{
    "user": {
      "custom": {
        "my_strings_key": { 
          "value": ["Hello", "there"],
          "type" : "string"        }
      }
    }
  }' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json' https://api.carnivalmobile.com/v6/users/:user_id

Boolean

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# Booleans can only be set as single attributes
curl -X PUT -H "Accept: application/json" -u :API_KEY -d \
  '{
    "user": {
      "custom": {
        "my_boolean_key": {
          "value": true,
          "type": "boolean"        }
      }
    }
  }' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json' https://api.carnivalmobile.com/v6/users/:user_id

Floan

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# Single attribute
curl -X PUT -H "Accept: application/json" -u :API_KEY -d \
  '{
    "user":{ 
      "custom": {
        "my_float_key": { 
          "value": 2.14, 
          "type": "float"        }
      }
    }
  }' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json' https://api.carnivalmobile.com/v6/users/:user_id
  
# Array
curl -X PUT -u :API_KEY -d \
  '{
    "user": {
      "custom": {
        "my_floats_key": {
          "value": [23.2, 3.141], 
          "type": "float"        }
      }
    }
  }' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json' https://api.carnivalmobile.com/v6/users/:user_id

Integer

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# Single attribute
curl -X PUT -H "Accept: application/json" -u :API_KEY -d \
  '{
    "user" :{ 
      "custom": {
        "my_integer_key": { 
          "value": 123,
          "type": "integer"        }
      }
    }
  }' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json' https://api.carnivalmobile.com/v6/users/:user_id
  
# Array
curl -X PUT -u :API_KEY -d \
  '{
    "user": {
      "custom": {
        "my_integers_key": { 
          "value": [23, 3], 
          "type": "integer"        }
      }
    }
  }' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json' https://api.carnivalmobile.com/v6/users/:user_id

Multiple Types

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# You can set multiple attributes in the same request
curl -X PUT -H "Accept: application/json" -u :API_KEY -d \
  '{
    "user": {
      "custom": {
        "release_date": {
          "value": "1965-12-03T01:15:00Z",
          "type" : "date"        },
        "favorite_song": {
          "value": "Drive My Car",
          "type" : "string"        },
        "starred_tracks": {
          "value": [1, 6, 11],
          "type": "integer"        }
      }
    }
  }' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json' https://api.carnivalmobile.com/v6/users/:user_id

Result Format

202 Accepted

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{
    "custom": {
        "my key 1": {
            "value": "custom attribute value",
            "type": "string"        }
    }
}

401 Unauthorized

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{
  "error":"unauthorized"}

403 Forbidden

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{
  "error":"your api client does not have the correct roles"}

404 Note Found

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{}
// No user was found for this user id

This endpoint updates an existing user with new attributes. Upon a successful request, existing attributes are merged (not replaced) with the attributes you sent in the request. If a User ID exists across multiple devices, all the devices belonging to that User ID will be updated.

Valid Types

Data type	Ranges/valid values	Example	Notes	Can be sent as array
`integer`	`-2,147,483,647` to `2,147,483,647`	`12`, `24`, `25`	Floating point numbers are accepted but they will be truncated to an `integer`. If you wish to keep the decimal part, use `float` instead. Values out of range will be discarded.	Yes
`float`	Single-precision 32-bit IEEE 754 floating point.	`12.343`, `123.33`	Floats greater than 32-bit will be converted to scientific notation.	Yes
`string`	UTF-8 character encoding	`Cody`, `gold`, `A string with a , comma`	Maximum 255 characters long	Yes
`date`	ISO 8601, e.g. `YYYY-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ`	`2017-02-06T18:25:32+0300`		Yes
`boolean`	`true` or `false`			No

Custom Attribute Limits

There are limits in place on the maximum number of custom attributes allowed as well as the length (size) of strings and arrays.

A maximum of 50 custom attributes is allowed per device. If you exceed this amount any new attributes being set will be discarded.
String values that have more than 255 characters will be truncated. The limitation is on the character length, not on the size in bytes.
Arrays with more than 50 elements will be truncated.

Key Name Restrictions

There are some restrictions in place on the key name, these are:

Only letters, numbers, underscore and dash are valid characters.
Leading spaces will be removed. " my_string_key " will become "my_string_key".
Invalid characters other than spaces and dots will be removed. "my_string_key~~~~" will become "my_string_key".
Spaces and dots will be replaced for underscores. "my string.key" will become "my_string_key".
Keys will be truncated to a maximum of 255 characters.
Invalid keys (including keys exclusively made of invalid characters) will simply be discarded and no error will be returned.