Question options¶

Resource description¶

Questions of type “choice” or “multiple choice” can have different options attached. The options resource contains the following public fields:

Field	Type	Description
id	integer	Internal ID of the option
position	integer	An integer, used for sorting
identifier	string	An arbitrary string that can be used for matching with other sources.
answer	multi-lingual string	The displayed value of this option

Endpoints¶

GET /api/v1/organizers/(organizer)/events/(event)/questions/(question)/options/¶

Returns a list of all options for a given question.

Example request:

GET /api/v1/organizers/bigevents/events/sampleconf/questions/11/options/ HTTP/1.1
Host: pretix.eu
Accept: application/json, text/javascript

Example response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Accept
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "count": 2,
  "next": null,
  "previous": null,
  "results": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "identifier": "LVETRWVU",
      "position": 1,
      "answer": {"en": "S"}
    },
    {
      "id": 2,
      "identifier": "DFEMJWMJ",
      "position": 2,
      "answer": {"en": "M"}
    },
    {
      "id": 3,
      "identifier": "W9AH7RDE",
      "position": 3,
      "answer": {"en": "L"}
    }
  ]
}

Query Parameters:

page (integer) – The page number in case of a multi-page result set, default is 1
active (boolean) – If set to true or false, only questions with this value for the field active will be returned.

Parameters:

organizer – The slug field of the organizer to fetch
event – The slug field of the event to fetch
question – The id field of the question to fetch

Status Codes:

200 OK – no error
401 Unauthorized – Authentication failure
403 Forbidden – The requested organizer/event/question does not exist or you have no permission to view this resource.

GET /api/v1/organizers/(organizer)/events/(event)/questions/(question)/options/(id)/¶

Returns information on one option, identified by its ID.

Example request:

GET /api/v1/organizers/bigevents/events/sampleconf/questions/1/options/1/ HTTP/1.1
Host: pretix.eu
Accept: application/json, text/javascript

Example response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Accept
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "id": 1,
  "identifier": "LVETRWVU",
  "position": 1,
  "answer": {"en": "S"}
}

Parameters:

organizer – The slug field of the organizer to fetch
event – The slug field of the event to fetch
question – The id field of the question to fetch
id – The id field of the option to fetch

Status Codes:

200 OK – no error
401 Unauthorized – Authentication failure
403 Forbidden – The requested organizer/event does not exist or you have no permission to view this resource.

POST /api/v1/organizers/(organizer)/events/(event)/questions/(question)/options/¶

Creates a new option

Example request:

POST /api/v1/organizers/bigevents/events/sampleconf/questions/1/options/ HTTP/1.1
Host: pretix.eu
Accept: application/json, text/javascript
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "identifier": "LVETRWVU",
  "position": 1,
  "answer": {"en": "S"}
}

Example response:

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Vary: Accept
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "id": 1,
  "identifier": "LVETRWVU",
  "position": 1,
  "answer": {"en": "S"}
}

Parameters:

organizer – The slug field of the organizer of the event/question to create a option for
event – The slug field of the event to create a option for
question – The id field of the question to create a option for

Status Codes:

201 Created – no error
400 Bad Request – The option could not be created due to invalid submitted data.
401 Unauthorized – Authentication failure
403 Forbidden – The requested organizer/event does not exist or you have no permission to create this resource.

PATCH /api/v1/organizers/(organizer)/events/(event)/questions/(question)/options/(id)/¶

Update an option. You can also use PUT instead of PATCH. With PUT, you have to provide all fields of the resource, other fields will be reset to default. With PATCH, you only need to provide the fields that you want to change.

You can change all fields of the resource except the id field.

Example request:

PATCH /api/v1/organizers/bigevents/events/sampleconf/questions/1/options/1/ HTTP/1.1
Host: pretix.eu
Accept: application/json, text/javascript
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 94

{
  "position": 3
}

Example response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Accept
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "id": 1,
  "identifier": "LVETRWVU",
  "position": 1,
  "answer": {"en": "S"}
}

Parameters:

organizer – The slug field of the organizer to modify
event – The slug field of the event to modify
id – The id field of the question to modify
id – The id field of the option to modify

Status Codes:

200 OK – no error
400 Bad Request – The option could not be modified due to invalid submitted data
401 Unauthorized – Authentication failure
403 Forbidden – The requested organizer/event does not exist or you have no permission to change this resource.

DELETE /api/v1/organizers/(organizer)/events/(event)/questions/(id)/options/(id)/¶

Delete an option.

Example request:

DELETE /api/v1/organizers/bigevents/events/sampleconf/questions/1/options/1/ HTTP/1.1
Host: pretix.eu
Accept: application/json, text/javascript

Example response:

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Vary: Accept

Parameters:

organizer – The slug field of the organizer to modify
event – The slug field of the event to modify
id – The id field of the question to modify
id – The id field of the option to delete

Status Codes:

204 No Content – no error
401 Unauthorized – Authentication failure
403 Forbidden – The requested organizer/event does not exist or you have no permission to delete this resource.