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POST
/
contract
/
v1
/
employee-leave-types
Create a new employee leave type
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api-{region}.sesametime.com/contract/v1/employee-leave-types \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "name": "Early retirement"
}
'
import requests

url = "https://api-{region}.sesametime.com/contract/v1/employee-leave-types"

payload = { "name": "Early retirement" }
headers = {
"Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)
const options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
body: JSON.stringify({name: 'Early retirement'})
};

fetch('https://api-{region}.sesametime.com/contract/v1/employee-leave-types', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api-{region}.sesametime.com/contract/v1/employee-leave-types",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'name' => 'Early retirement'
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type: application/json"
],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}
package main

import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)

func main() {

url := "https://api-{region}.sesametime.com/contract/v1/employee-leave-types"

payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"name\": \"Early retirement\"\n}")

req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

fmt.Println(string(body))

}
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api-{region}.sesametime.com/contract/v1/employee-leave-types")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.body("{\n \"name\": \"Early retirement\"\n}")
.asString();
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api-{region}.sesametime.com/contract/v1/employee-leave-types")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"name\": \"Early retirement\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
{
  "data": {
    "id": "3c90c3cc-0d44-4b50-8888-8dd25736052a",
    "name": "Dismissal",
    "editable": true,
    "createdAt": "2020-01-01T10:00:00+01:00",
    "updatedAt": "2020-01-01T10:00:00+01:00"
  },
  "meta": {
    "currentPage": 1,
    "lastPage": 1,
    "total": 1,
    "perPage": 1
  }
}
{
"message": "Validation failed",
"errors": [
{
"field": "questionId",
"message": "This value is not a valid UUID."
},
{
"field": "answer",
"message": "This field is required for text-based questions."
}
]
}
{
"message": "Invalid or missing API Key",
"code": "UNAUTHORIZED"
}

Authorizations

Authorization
string
header
required

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.

Body

application/json
name
string
required

Leave type name

Example:

"Early retirement"

reason
enum<string>
required

Leave reason category

Available options:
entities.employeeLeaveType.reason.voluntary,
entities.employeeLeaveType.reason.involuntary

Response

Successful response

data
object
meta
object