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Last modified: Feb 29, 2024

How to publish Altinn App events

How-to guide on publishing Altinn App events

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Are you an Altinn App developer?

Please reference the Altinn Apps documentation for guidance on how to enable the events functionality and define custom events in your Altinn App.

As the publishing of app events is handled by core logic in the application, this documentation is only relevant for developers working with core application logic i.e. the application template.

Endpoint

POST /app

Authentication

This API requires authentication and a Platform Access Token in the header.

See Authentication and Authorization for more information.

Request

Content-type

application/json

Request body

The request body should contain the cloud event formatted as a AppCloudEventRequestModel and serialized as a JSON string.

Events will handle setting ID and time on the cloud event.

Required cloud event properties and extension attributes

type

  • event type of the cloud event, type: string

source

  • event source of the cloud event, type: URI

subject

  • party ID for the instanceOwner, type: string

Format of the subject string: /party/{partyId}

specversion

  • the cloud event spec version, type: string

Optional cloud event properties and extension attributes

In addition to the properties stated below, all properties defined in the AppCloudEventRequestModel will be accepted.

alternative subject

  • alternative identifier for the subject, type: string

The alternative subject should be an identifier that is commonly known to your subscribers. This property is supported as a query/filter parameter when subscribing or querying events. We recommend to include an alternative subject if the subject property is an internal ID that is unknown to the event subscribers

For Altinn-related events alternative subject follows the format /person/16069412345 and /organisation/987564321.

Response

A successful registration of the cloud event should result in a 200 OK response without any data.

Content-Type

  • application/json

Response codes

  • 201 Created: The cloud event was registered successfully

  • 400 Bad Request: The request was invalid.

    Refer to problem details in response body for further information.

  • 401 Unauthorized: Indicates a missing, invalid or expired authorization header or that app is not authorized to publish events for the provided source.

  • 403 Forbidden: Indicates that Platform Access Token is missing or invalid.

Examples

Request

Note that the Platform Access and Altinn tokens should be inserted in the headers.

curl \
--location 'https://platform.altinn.no/events/api/v1/app' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'PlatformAccessToken: {Insert Platform Access token}' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer {Insert Altinn token}' \
--data '{
	"type": "app.instance.created",
	"source": "https://ttd.apps.altinn.no/ttd/apps-test/instances/50019855/428a4575-2c04-4400-89a3-1aaadd2579cd",
	"subject": "/party/50019855",
	"specversion": "1.0",
	"alternativesubject": "/person/01017512345"
}'

Response

200 OK

Response contains the ID for the cloud event.

"4815d141-8cf6-4555-8c3c-e069c7b80c79"

400 Bad Request

Response contains a problem details object with the error message in the detail property.

{
	"type": "https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-6.5.1",
	"title": "Bad Request",
	"status": 400,
	"detail": "Missing parameter values: source, subject and type cannot be null",
	"traceId": "00-4b54a6a0c9b74bf5afc5e917863f96fd-eb14b06c1f0c3cf8-00"
}