The REST API lets you interact with Parse Server from anything that can send an HTTP request. There are many things you can do with the REST API. For example:
All API access is over HTTPS, and accessed via the https://api.parse.com
domain. The relative path prefix /1/
indicates that we are currently using version 1 of the API.
URL | HTTP Verb | Functionality |
---|---|---|
/1/classes/<className> |
POST | Creating Objects |
/1/classes/<className>/<objectId> |
GET | Retrieving Objects |
/1/classes/<className>/<objectId> |
PUT | Updating Objects |
/1/classes/<className> |
GET | Queries |
/1/classes/<className>/<objectId> |
DELETE | Deleting Objects |
URL | HTTP Verb | Functionality |
---|---|---|
/1/users |
POST | Signing Up Linking Users |
/1/login |
GET | Logging In |
/1/logout |
POST | Logging Out |
/1/users/<objectId> |
GET | Retrieving Users |
/1/users/me |
GET | Validating Session Tokens Retrieving Current User |
/1/users/<objectId> |
PUT | Updating Users Linking Users Verifying Emails |
/1/users |
GET | Querying Users |
/1/users/<objectId> |
DELETE | Deleting Users |
/1/requestPasswordReset |
POST | Requesting A Password Reset |
URL | HTTP Verb | Functionality |
---|---|---|
/1/sessions |
POST | Creating Restricted Sessions |
/1/sessions/<objectId> |
GET | Retrieving Sessions |
/1/sessions/me |
GET | Retrieving Current Session |
/1/sessions/<objectId> |
PUT | Updating Sessions |
/1/sessions |
GET | Querying Sessions |
/1/sessions/<objectId> |
DELETE | Deleting Sessions |
/1/sessions/me |
PUT | Pairing with Installation |
URL | HTTP Verb | Functionality |
---|---|---|
/1/roles |
POST | Creating Roles |
/1/roles/<objectId> |
GET | Retrieving Roles |
/1/roles/<objectId> |
PUT | Updating Roles |
/1/roles/<objectId> |
DELETE | Deleting Roles |
URL | HTTP Verb | Functionality |
---|---|---|
/1/files/<fileName> |
POST | Uploading Files |
URL | HTTP Verb | Functionality |
---|---|---|
/1/events/AppOpened |
POST | Analytics |
/1/events/<eventName> |
POST | Custom Analytics |
URL | HTTP Verb | Functionality |
---|---|---|
/1/push |
POST | Push Notifications |
URL | HTTP Verb | Functionality |
---|---|---|
/1/installations |
POST | Uploading Installation Data |
/1/installations/<objectId> |
GET | Retrieving Installations |
/1/installations/<objectId> |
PUT | Updating Installations |
/1/installations |
GET | Querying Installations |
/1/installations/<objectId> |
DELETE | Deleting Installations |
URL | HTTP Verb | Functionality |
---|---|---|
/1/functions/<name> |
POST | Calling Cloud Functions |
/1/jobs/<name> |
POST | Triggering Background Jobs |
URL | HTTP Verb | Functionality |
---|---|---|
/1/schemas/ |
GET | Fetch All Schemas |
/1/schemas/<className> |
GET | Fetch Schema |
/1/schemas/<className> |
POST | Create Schema |
/1/schemas/<className> |
PUT | Modify Schema |
/1/schemas/<className> |
DELETE | Delete Schema |
URL | HTTP Verb | Functionality |
---|---|---|
/1/apps/ |
GET | Fetch Apps |
/1/apps/<applicationId> |
GET | Fetch App |
/1/apps/<applicationId> |
POST | Create App |
/1/apps/<applicationId> |
PUT | Modify App |
URL | HTTP Verb | Functionality |
---|---|---|
/1/hooks/functions/<functionName> |
GET | Fetch Cloud Functions |
/1/hooks/functions/ |
POST | Create Cloud Function |
/1/hooks/functions/<functionName> |
PUT | Edit Cloud Function |
/1/hooks/functions/<functionName> |
DELETE | Delete Cloud Function |
URL | HTTP Verb | Functionality |
---|---|---|
/1/hooks/triggers/<className>/<triggerName> |
GET | Fetch Cloud Trigger |
/1/hooks/triggers/ |
POST | Create Cloud Trigger |
/1/hooks/triggers/<className>/<triggerName> |
PUT | Edit Cloud Trigger |
/1/hooks/triggers/<className>/<triggerName> |
DELETE | Delete Cloud Trigger |
For POST and PUT requests, the request body must be JSON, with the Content-Type
header set to application/json
.
Authentication is done via HTTP headers. The X-Parse-Application-Id
header identifies which application you are accessing, and the X-Parse-REST-API-Key
header authenticates the endpoint.
In the examples that follow, the keys for your app are included in the command. You can use the drop-down to construct example code for other apps.
You may also authenticate your REST API requests using basic HTTP authentication. For example, to retrieve an object you could set the URL using your Parse credentials in the following format:
https://myAppID:javascript-key=myJavaScriptKey@api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore/Ed1nuqPvcm
For JavaScript usage, the Parse Cloud supports cross-origin resource sharing, so that you can use these headers in conjunction with XMLHttpRequest.
The response format for all requests is a JSON object.
Whether a request succeeded is indicated by the HTTP status code. A 2xx status code indicates success, whereas a 4xx status code indicates failure. When a request fails, the response body is still JSON, but always contains the fields code
and error
which you can inspect to use for debugging. For example, trying to save an object with invalid keys will return the message:
{
"code": 105,
"error": "invalid field name: bl!ng"
}
You should not use the REST API Key in client apps (i.e. code you distribute to your customers). If the Parse SDK is available for your client platform, we recommend using our SDK instead of the REST API. If you must call the REST API directly from the client, you should use the corresponding client-side Parse key for that plaform (e.g. Client Key for iOS/Android, or .NET Key for Windows/Xamarin/Unity).
If there is no Parse SDK for your client platform, please use your app’s Client Key to call the REST API. Requests made with the Client Key, JavaScript Key, or Windows Key are restricted by client-side app settings that you configure in your Parse.com app dashboard. These settings make your app more secure. For example, we recommend that all production apps turn off the “Client Push Enabled” setting to prevent push notifications from being sent from any device using the Client Key, JavaScript Key, or .NET Key, but not the REST API Key. Therefore, if you plan on registering installations to enable Push Notifications for your app, you should not distribute any app code with the REST API key embedded in it.
The JavaScript Key cannot be used to make requests directly against the REST API from JavaScript. The JavaScript Key is meant to be used with the Parse JavaScript SDK, which makes its posts through a Cross Origin-friendly format without HTTP headers.
Storing data through the Parse REST API is built around a JSON encoding of the object’s data. This data is schemaless, which means that you don’t need to specify ahead of time what keys exist on each object. You simply set whatever key-value pairs you want, and the backend will store it.
For example, let’s say you’re tracking high scores for a game. A single object could contain:
{
"score": 1337,
"playerName": "Sean Plott",
"cheatMode": false
}
Keys must be alphanumeric strings. Values can be anything that can be JSON-encoded.
Each object has a class name that you can use to distinguish different sorts of data. For example, we could call the high score object a GameScore
. We recommend that you NameYourClassesLikeThis and nameYourKeysLikeThis, just to keep your code looking pretty.
When you retrieve objects from Parse, some fields are automatically added: createdAt
, updatedAt
, and objectId
. These field names are reserved, so you cannot set them yourself. The object above could look like this when retrieved:
{
"score": 1337,
"playerName": "Sean Plott",
"cheatMode": false,
"createdAt": "2011-08-20T02:06:57.931Z",
"updatedAt": "2011-08-20T02:06:57.931Z",
"objectId": "Ed1nuqPvcm"
}
createdAt
and updatedAt
are UTC timestamps stored in ISO 8601 format with millisecond precision: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.MMMZ
. objectId
is a string unique to this class that identifies this object.
In the REST API, the class-level operations operate on a resource based on just the class name. For example, if the class name is GameScore
, the class URL is:
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore
Users have a special class-level url:
https://api.parse.com/1/users
The operations specific to a single object are available a nested URL. For example, operations specific to the GameScore
above with objectId
equal to Ed1nuqPvcm
would use the object URL:
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore/Ed1nuqPvcm
To create a new object on Parse, send a POST request to the class URL containing the contents of the object. For example, to create the object described above:
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"score":1337,"playerName":"Sean Plott","cheatMode":false}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/classes/GameScore', json.dumps({
"score": 1337,
"playerName": "Sean Plott",
"cheatMode": False
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
results = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print results
When the creation is successful, the HTTP response is a 201 Created
and the Location
header contains the object URL for the new object:
Status: 201 Created
Location: https://api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore/Ed1nuqPvcm
The response body is a JSON object containing the objectId
and the createdAt
timestamp of the newly-created object:
{
"createdAt": "2011-08-20T02:06:57.931Z",
"objectId": "Ed1nuqPvcm"
}
Once you’ve created an object, you can retrieve its contents by sending a GET request to the object URL returned in the location header. For example, to retrieve the object we created above:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore/Ed1nuqPvcm
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/GameScore/Ed1nuqPvcm', '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The response body is a JSON object containing all the user-provided fields, plus the createdAt
, updatedAt
, and objectId
fields:
{
"score": 1337,
"playerName": "Sean Plott",
"cheatMode": false,
"skills": [
"pwnage",
"flying"
],
"createdAt": "2011-08-20T02:06:57.931Z",
"updatedAt": "2011-08-20T02:06:57.931Z",
"objectId": "Ed1nuqPvcm"
}
When retrieving objects that have pointers to children, you can fetch child objects by using the include
option. For instance, to fetch the object pointed to by the “game” key:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode 'include=game' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore/Ed1nuqPvcm
import json,httplib,urllib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
params = urllib.urlencode({"include":"game"})
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/GameScore/Ed1nuqPvcm?%s' % params, '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
To change the data on an object that already exists, send a PUT request to the object URL. Any keys you don’t specify will remain unchanged, so you can update just a subset of the object’s data. For example, if we wanted to change the score field of our object:
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"score":73453}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore/Ed1nuqPvcm
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('PUT', '/1/classes/GameScore/Ed1nuqPvcm', json.dumps({
"score": 73453
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The response body is a JSON object containing just an updatedAt
field with the timestamp of the update.
{
"updatedAt": "2011-08-21T18:02:52.248Z"
}
To help with storing counter-type data, Parse provides the ability to atomically increment (or decrement) any number field. So, we can increment the score field like so:
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"score":{"__op":"Increment","amount":1}}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore/Ed1nuqPvcm
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('PUT', '/1/classes/GameScore/Ed1nuqPvcm', json.dumps({
"score": {
"__op": "Increment",
"amount": 1
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
To decrement the counter, use the Increment
operator with a negative number:
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"score":{"__op":"Increment","amount":-1}}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore/Ed1nuqPvcm
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('PUT', '/1/classes/GameScore/Ed1nuqPvcm', json.dumps({
"score": {
"__op": "Increment",
"amount": -1
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
To help with storing array data, there are three operations that can be used to atomically change an array field:
Add
appends the given array of objects to the end of an array field.AddUnique
adds only the given objects which aren’t already contained in an array field to that field. The position of the insert is not guaranteed.Remove
removes all instances of each given object from an array field.Each method takes an array of objects to add or remove in the “objects” key. For example, we can add items to the set-like “skills” field like so:
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"skills":{"__op":"AddUnique","objects":["flying","kungfu"]}}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore/Ed1nuqPvcm
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('PUT', '/1/classes/GameScore/Ed1nuqPvcm', json.dumps({
"skills": {
"__op": "AddUnique",
"objects": [
"flying",
"kungfu"
]
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
In order to update Relation
types, Parse provides special operators to atomically add and remove objects to a relation. So, we can add an object to a relation like so:
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"opponents":{"__op":"AddRelation","objects":[{"__type":"Pointer","className":"Player","objectId":"Vx4nudeWn"}]}}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore/Ed1nuqPvcm
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('PUT', '/1/classes/GameScore/Ed1nuqPvcm', json.dumps({
"opponents": {
"__op": "AddRelation",
"objects": [
{
"__type": "Pointer",
"className": "Player",
"objectId": "Vx4nudeWn"
}
]
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
To remove an object from a relation, you can do:
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"opponents":{"__op":"RemoveRelation","objects":[{"__type":"Pointer","className":"Player","objectId":"Vx4nudeWn"}]}}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore/Ed1nuqPvcm
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('PUT', '/1/classes/GameScore/Ed1nuqPvcm', json.dumps({
"opponents": {
"__op": "RemoveRelation",
"objects": [
{
"__type": "Pointer",
"className": "Player",
"objectId": "Vx4nudeWn"
}
]
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
To delete an object from the Parse Cloud, send a DELETE request to its object URL. For example:
curl -X DELETE \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore/Ed1nuqPvcm
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('DELETE', '/1/classes/GameScore/Ed1nuqPvcm', '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
You can delete a single field from an object by using the Delete
operation:
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"opponents":{"__op":"Delete"}}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore/Ed1nuqPvcm
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('PUT', '/1/classes/GameScore/Ed1nuqPvcm', json.dumps({
"opponents": {
"__op": "Delete"
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
To reduce the amount of time spent on network round trips, you can create, update, or delete up to 50 objects in one call, using the batch endpoint.
Each command in a batch has method
, path
, and body
parameters that specify the HTTP command that would normally be used for that command. The commands are run in the order they are given. For example, to create a couple of GameScore
objects:
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"requests": [
{
"method": "POST",
"path": "/1/classes/GameScore",
"body": {
"score": 1337,
"playerName": "Sean Plott"
}
},
{
"method": "POST",
"path": "/1/classes/GameScore",
"body": {
"score": 1338,
"playerName": "ZeroCool"
}
}
]
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/batch
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/batch', json.dumps({
"requests": [
{
"method": "POST",
"path": "/1/classes/GameScore",
"body": {
"score": 1337,
"playerName": "Sean Plott"
}
},
{
"method": "POST",
"path": "/1/classes/GameScore",
"body": {
"score": 1338,
"playerName": "ZeroCool"
}
}
]
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The response from batch will be a list with the same number of elements as the input list. Each item in the list with be a dictionary with either the success
or error
field set. The value of success
will be the normal response to the equivalent REST command:
{
"success": {
"createdAt": "2012-06-15T16:59:11.276Z",
"objectId": "YAfSAWwXbL"
}
}
The value of error
will be an object with a numeric code
and error
string:
{
"error": {
"code": 101,
"error": "object not found for delete"
}
}
Other commands that work in a batch are update
and delete
.
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"requests": [
{
"method": "PUT",
"path": "/1/classes/GameScore/Ed1nuqPvcm",
"body": {
"score": 999999
}
},
{
"method": "DELETE",
"path": "/1/classes/GameScore/Cpl9lrueY5"
}
]
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/batch
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/batch', json.dumps({
"requests": [
{
"method": "PUT",
"path": "/1/classes/GameScore/Ed1nuqPvcm",
"body": {
"score": 999999
}
},
{
"method": "DELETE",
"path": "/1/classes/GameScore/Cpl9lrueY5"
}
]
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
Note that N requests sent in a batch will still count toward your request limit as N requests.
So far we have only used values that can be encoded with standard JSON. The Parse mobile client libraries also support dates, geolocations, and relational data. In the REST API, these values are encoded as JSON hashes with the __type
field set to indicate their type, so you can read or write these fields if you use the correct encoding. Overall, the following types are allowed for each field in your object:
The Date
type contains a field iso
which contains a UTC timestamp stored in ISO 8601 format with millisecond precision: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.MMMZ
.
{
"__type": "Date",
"iso": "2011-08-21T18:02:52.249Z"
}
Dates are useful in combination with the built-in createdAt
and updatedAt
fields. For example, to retrieve objects created since a particular time, just encode a Date in a comparison query:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode 'where={"createdAt":{"$gte":{"__type":"Date","iso":"2011-08-21T18:02:52.249Z"}}}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore
import json,httplib,urllib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
params = urllib.urlencode({"where":json.dumps({
"createdAt": {
"$gte": {
"__type": "Date",
"iso": "2011-08-21T18:02:52.249Z"
}
}
})})
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/GameScore?%s' % params, '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The Pointer
type is used when mobile code sets another Parse Object
as the value of another object. It contains the className
and objectId
of the referred-to value.
{
"__type": "Pointer",
"className": "GameScore",
"objectId": "Ed1nuqPvc"
}
Note that the built-in User
, Role
, and Installation
classes are prefixed by an underscore. For example, pointers to user objects have a className
of _User
. Prefixing with an underscore is forbidden for developer-defined classes as it signifies the class is a special built-in.
The Relation
type is used for many-to-many relations. It has a className
that is the class name of the target objects.
{
"__type": "Relation",
"className": "GameScore"
}
When querying, Relation
objects behave like arrays of Pointers. Any operation that is valid for arrays of pointers (other than include
) works for Relation
objects.
We do not recommend storing large pieces of binary data like images or documents on a Parse object. Parse objects should not exceed 128 kilobytes in size. To store more, we recommend you use File
. You may associate a previously uploaded file using the File
type.
{
"__type": "File",
"name": "...profile.png"
}
When more data types are added, they will also be represented as hashes with a __type
field set, so you may not use this field yourself on JSON objects. For more information about how Parse handles data, check out our documentation on Data.
You can retrieve multiple objects at once by sending a GET request to the class URL. Without any URL parameters, this simply lists objects in the class:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/GameScore', '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The return value is a JSON object that contains a results
field with a JSON array that lists the objects.
{
"results": [
{
"playerName": "Jang Min Chul",
"updatedAt": "2011-08-19T02:24:17.787Z",
"cheatMode": false,
"createdAt": "2011-08-19T02:24:17.787Z",
"objectId": "A22v5zRAgd",
"score": 80075
},
{
"playerName": "Sean Plott",
"updatedAt": "2011-08-21T18:02:52.248Z",
"cheatMode": false,
"createdAt": "2011-08-20T02:06:57.931Z",
"objectId": "Ed1nuqPvcm",
"score": 73453
}
]
}
There are several ways to put constraints on the objects found, using the where
URL parameter. The value of the where
parameter should be encoded JSON. Thus, if you look at the actual URL requested, it would be JSON-encoded, then URL-encoded. The simplest use of the where
parameter is constraining the value for keys. For example, if we wanted to retrieve Sean Plott’s scores that were not in cheat mode, we could do:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode 'where={"playerName":"Sean Plott","cheatMode":false}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore
import json,httplib,urllib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
params = urllib.urlencode({"where":json.dumps({
"playerName": "Sean Plott",
"cheatMode": False
})})
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/GameScore?%s' % params, '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The values of the where
parameter also support comparisons besides exact matching. Instead of an exact value, provide a hash with keys corresponding to the comparisons to do. The where
parameter supports these options:
Key | Operation |
---|---|
$lt | Less Than |
$lte | Less Than Or Equal To |
$gt | Greater Than |
$gte | Greater Than Or Equal To |
$ne | Not Equal To |
$in | Contained In |
$nin | Not Contained in |
$exists | A value is set for the key |
$select | This matches a value for a key in the result of a different query |
$dontSelect | Requires that a key’s value not match a value for a key in the result of a different query |
$all | Contains all of the given values |
$regex | Requires that a key’s value match a regular expression |
For example, to retrieve scores between 1000 and 3000, including the endpoints, we could issue:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode 'where={"score":{"$gte":1000,"$lte":3000}}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore
import json,httplib,urllib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
params = urllib.urlencode({"where":json.dumps({
"score": {
"$gte": 1000,
"$lte": 3000
}
})})
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/GameScore?%s' % params, '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
To retrieve scores equal to an odd number below 10, we could issue:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode 'where={"score":{"$in":[1,3,5,7,9]}}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore
import json,httplib,urllib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
params = urllib.urlencode({"where":json.dumps({
"score": {
"$in": [
1,
3,
5,
7,
9
]
}
})})
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/GameScore?%s' % params, '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
To retrieve scores not by a given list of players we could issue:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode 'where={
"playerName": {
"$nin": [
"Jonathan Walsh",
"Dario Wunsch",
"Shawn Simon"
]
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore
import json,httplib,urllib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
params = urllib.urlencode({"where":json.dumps({
"playerName": {
"$nin": [
"Jonathan Walsh",
"Dario Wunsch",
"Shawn Simon"
]
}
})})
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/GameScore?%s' % params, '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
To retrieve documents with the score set, we could issue:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode 'where={"score":{"$exists":true}}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore
import json,httplib,urllib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
params = urllib.urlencode({"where":json.dumps({
"score": {
"$exists": True
}
})})
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/GameScore?%s' % params, '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
To retrieve documents without the score set, we could issue:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode 'where={"score":{"$exists":false}}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore
import json,httplib,urllib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
params = urllib.urlencode({"where":json.dumps({
"score": {
"$exists": False
}
})})
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/GameScore?%s' % params, '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
If you have a class containing sports teams and you store a user’s hometown in the user class, you can issue one query to find the list of users whose hometown teams have winning records. The query would look like:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode 'where={"hometown":{"$select":{"query":{"className":"Team","where":{"winPct":{"$gt":0.5}}},"key":"city"}}}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/_User
import json,httplib,urllib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
params = urllib.urlencode({"where":json.dumps({
"hometown": {
"$select": {
"query": {
"className": "Team",
"where": {
"winPct": {
"$gt": 0.5
}
}
},
"key": "city"
}
}
})})
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/_User?%s' % params, '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
In addition to where
, there are several parameters you can use to configure what types of results are returned by the query.
Parameter | Use |
---|---|
order | Specify a field to sort by |
limit | Limit the number of objects returned by the query |
skip | Use with limit to paginate through results |
keys | Restrict the fields returned by the query |
include | Use on Pointer columns to return the full object |
You can use the order
parameter to specify a field to sort by. Prefixing with a negative sign reverses the order. Thus, to retrieve scores in ascending order:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode 'order=score' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore
import json,httplib,urllib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
params = urllib.urlencode({"order":"score"})
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/GameScore?%s' % params, '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
And to retrieve scores in descending order:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode 'order=-score' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore
import json,httplib,urllib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
params = urllib.urlencode({"order":"-score"})
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/GameScore?%s' % params, '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
You can sort by multiple fields by passing order
a comma-separated list. To retrieve documents that are ordered by scores in ascending order and the names in descending order:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode 'order=score,-name' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore
import json,httplib,urllib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
params = urllib.urlencode({"order":"score,-name"})
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/GameScore?%s' % params, '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
You can use the limit
and skip
parameters for pagination. limit
defaults to 100, but anything from 1 to 1000 is a valid limit. Thus, to retrieve 200 objects after skipping the first 400:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode 'limit=200' \
--data-urlencode 'skip=400' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore
import json,httplib,urllib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
params = urllib.urlencode({"limit":200,"skip":400})
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/GameScore?%s' % params, '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
You can restrict the fields returned by passing keys
a comma-separated list. To retrieve documents that contain only the score
and playerName
fields (and also special built-in fields such as objectId
, createdAt
, and updatedAt
):
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode 'keys=score,playerName' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore
import json,httplib,urllib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
params = urllib.urlencode({"keys":"score,playerName"})
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/GameScore?%s' % params, '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
All of these parameters can be used in combination with each other. For example:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode 'where={
"playerName": {
"$nin": [
"Jonathan Walsh",
"Dario Wunsch",
"Shawn Simon"
]
}
}' \
--data-urlencode 'order=score,-name' \
--data-urlencode 'limit=200' \
--data-urlencode 'skip=400' \
--data-urlencode 'keys=score,playerName' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore
import json,httplib,urllib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
params = urllib.urlencode({
"where":json.dumps({
"playerName": {
"$nin": [
"Jonathan Walsh",
"Dario Wunsch",
"Shawn Simon"
]
}
}),
"order":"score,-name",
"limit":200,
"skip":400,
"keys":"score,playerName"})
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/GameScore?%s' % params, '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
For keys with an array type, you can find objects where the key’s array value contains 2 by:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode 'where={"arrayKey":2}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/RandomObject
import json,httplib,urllib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
params = urllib.urlencode({"where":json.dumps({
"arrayKey": 2
})})
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/RandomObject?%s' % params, '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
You can also use the $all
operator to find objects with an array field which contains each of the values 2, 3, and 4 by:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode 'where={"arrayKey":{"$all":[2,3,4]}}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/RandomObject
import json,httplib,urllib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
params = urllib.urlencode({"where":json.dumps({
"arrayKey": {
"$all": [
2,
3,
4
]
}
})})
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/RandomObject?%s' % params, '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
Use the $regex
operator to restrict to string values that match a regular expression. Most regular expression queries in Parse are heavily throttled due to performance considerations. Use case sensitive, anchored queries where possible. Similar to a MySQL LIKE operator, anchored queries are indexed so they are efficient for large datasets. For example:
# Finds barbecue sauces that start with "Big Daddy"
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode 'where={"name":{"$regex":"^Big Daddy"}}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/BarbecueSauce
# Finds barbecue sauces that start with "Big Daddy"
import json,httplib,urllib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
params = urllib.urlencode({"where":json.dumps({
"name": {
"$regex": "^Big Daddy"
}
})})
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/BarbecueSauce?%s' % params, '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The above example will match any BarbecueSauce
objects where the value in the “name” String key starts with “Big Daddy”. For example, both “Big Daddy” and “Big Daddy’s” will match, but “big daddy” or “BBQ Sauce: Big Daddy’s” will not.
Queries that have regular expression constraints are very expensive, especially for classes with over 100,000 records. Parse restricts how many such operations can be run on a particular app at any given time.
There are several ways to issue queries for relational data. If you want to retrieve objects where a field matches a particular object, you can use a where
clause with a Pointer
encoded with __type
just like you would use other data types. For example, if each Comment
has a Post
object in its post
field, you can fetch comments for a particular Post
:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode 'where={"post":{"__type":"Pointer","className":"Post","objectId":"8TOXdXf3tz"}}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/Comment
import json,httplib,urllib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
params = urllib.urlencode({"where":json.dumps({
"post": {
"__type": "Pointer",
"className": "Post",
"objectId": "8TOXdXf3tz"
}
})})
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/Comment?%s' % params, '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
If you want to retrieve objects where a field contains an object that matches another query, you can use the $inQuery
operator. Note that the default limit of 100 and maximum limit of 1000 apply to the inner query as well, so with large data sets you may need to construct queries carefully to get the desired behavior. For example, imagine you have Post class and a Comment class, where each Comment has a pointer to its parent Post. You can find comments on posts with images by doing:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode 'where={"post":{"$inQuery":{"where":{"image":{"$exists":true}},"className":"Post"}}}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/Comment
import json,httplib,urllib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
params = urllib.urlencode({"where":json.dumps({
"post": {
"$inQuery": {
"where": {
"image": {
"$exists": True
}
},
"className": "Post"
}
}
})})
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/Comment?%s' % params, '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
If you want to retrieve objects where a field contains an object that does not match another query, you can use the $notInQuery
operator. Imagine you have Post class and a Comment class, where each Comment has a pointer to its parent Post. You can find comments on posts without images by doing:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode 'where={"post":{"$notInQuery":{"where":{"image":{"$exists":true}},"className":"Post"}}}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/Comment
import json,httplib,urllib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
params = urllib.urlencode({"where":json.dumps({
"post": {
"$notInQuery": {
"where": {
"image": {
"$exists": True
}
},
"className": "Post"
}
}
})})
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/Comment?%s' % params, '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
If you want to retrieve objects that are members of Relation
field of a parent object, you can use the $relatedTo
operator. Imagine you have a Post class and User class, where each Post can be liked by many users. If the Users that liked a Post were stored in a Relation
on the post under the key “likes”, you can find the users that liked a particular post by:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode 'where={"$relatedTo":{"object":{"__type":"Pointer","className":"Post","objectId":"8TOXdXf3tz"},"key":"likes"}}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/users
import json,httplib,urllib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
params = urllib.urlencode({"where":json.dumps({
"$relatedTo": {
"object": {
"__type": "Pointer",
"className": "Post",
"objectId": "8TOXdXf3tz"
},
"key": "likes"
}
})})
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/users?%s' % params, '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
In some situations, you want to return multiple types of related objects in one query. You can do this by passing the field to include in the include
parameter. For example, let’s say you are retrieving the last ten comments, and you want to retrieve their related posts at the same time:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode 'order=-createdAt' \
--data-urlencode 'limit=10' \
--data-urlencode 'include=post' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/Comment
import json,httplib,urllib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
params = urllib.urlencode({"order":"-createdAt","limit":10,"include":"post"})
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/Comment?%s' % params, '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
Instead of being represented as a Pointer
, the post
field is now expanded into the whole object. __type
is set to Object
and className
is provided as well. For example, a Pointer
to a Post
could be represented as:
{
"__type": "Pointer",
"className": "Post",
"objectId": "8TOXdXf3tz"
}
When the query is issued with an include
parameter for the key holding this pointer, the pointer will be expanded to:
{
"__type": "Object",
"className": "Post",
"objectId": "8TOXdXf3tz",
"createdAt": "2011-12-06T20:59:34.428Z",
"updatedAt": "2011-12-06T20:59:34.428Z",
"otherFields": "willAlsoBeIncluded"
}
You can also do multi level includes using dot notation. If you wanted to include the post for a comment and the post’s author as well you can do:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode 'order=-createdAt' \
--data-urlencode 'limit=10' \
--data-urlencode 'include=post.author' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/Comment
import json,httplib,urllib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
params = urllib.urlencode({"order":"-createdAt","limit":10,"include":"post.author"})
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/Comment?%s' % params, '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
You can issue a query with multiple fields included by passing a comma-separated list of keys as the include
parameter.
Caveat: Count queries are rate limited to a maximum of 160 requests per minute. They can also return inaccurate results for classes with more than 1,000 objects. Thus, it is preferable to architect your application to avoid this sort of count operation (by using counters, for example.)
If you are limiting your query, or if there are a very large number of results, and you want to know how many total results there are without returning them all, you can use the count
parameter. For example, if you only care about the number of games played by a particular player:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode 'where={"playerName":"Jonathan Walsh"}' \
--data-urlencode 'count=1' \
--data-urlencode 'limit=0' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/GameScore
import json,httplib,urllib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
params = urllib.urlencode({"where":json.dumps({
"playerName": "Jonathan Walsh"
}),"count":1,"limit":0})
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/GameScore?%s' % params, '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
Since this requests a count as well as limiting to zero results, there will be a count but no results in the response.
{
"results": [],
"count": 1337
}
With a nonzero limit, that request would return results as well as the count.
If you want to find objects that match one of several queries, you can use $or
operator, with a JSONArray as its value. For instance, if you want to find players with either have a lot of wins or a few wins, you can do:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode 'where={"$or":[{"wins":{"$gt":150}},{"wins":{"$lt":5}}]}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/Player
import json,httplib,urllib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
params = urllib.urlencode({"where":json.dumps({
"$or": [
{
"wins": {
"$gt": 150
}
},
{
"wins": {
"$lt": 5
}
}
]
})})
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/Player?%s' % params, '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
Any other constraints on the query are also applied to the object returned, so you can add other constraints to queries with $or
.
Note that we do not, however, support GeoPoint or non-filtering constraints (e.g. nearSphere, within, limit, skip, sort, include) in the subqueries of the compound query.
Many apps have a unified login that works across the mobile app and other systems. Accessing user accounts through the REST API lets you build this functionality on top of Parse.
In general, users have the same features as other objects, such as the flexible schema. The differences are that user objects must have a username and password, the password is automatically encrypted and stored securely, and Parse enforces the uniqueness of the username
and email
fields.
Signing up a new user differs from creating a generic object in that the username
and password
fields are required. The password field is handled differently than the others; it is encrypted with bcrypt when stored in the Parse Cloud and never returned to any client request.
You can ask Parse to verify user email addresses in your application settings page. With this setting enabled, all new user registrations with an email
field will generate an email confirmation at that address. You can check whether the user has verified their email
with the emailVerified
field.
To sign up a new user, send a POST request to the users root. You may add any additional fields. For example, to create a user with a specific phone number:
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "X-Parse-Revocable-Session: 1" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"username":"cooldude6","password":"p_n7!-e8","phone":"415-392-0202"}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/users
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/users', json.dumps({
"username": "cooldude6",
"password": "p_n7!-e8",
"phone": "415-392-0202"
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"X-Parse-Revocable-Session": "1",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The X-Parse-Revocable-Session
header tells Parse to return a revocable session even if your app has “Require Revocable Sessions” turned off (at Parse.com app settings page). This is useful for transitioning from legacy session tokens to revocable sessions when your existing mobile app also accesses the same Parse data. If “Require Revocable Sessions” is turned on (default for new apps), the X-Parse-Revocable-Session
header is unnecessary. When you ask for a revocable session during signup, the Parse Cloud will automatically create a Session
object. On this request, you can also tell Parse to automatically attach an installation to that session by specifying the optional X-Parse-Installation-Id
header with the installationId
of that installation.
When the creation is successful, the HTTP response is a 201 Created
and the Location
header contains the URL for the new user:
Status: 201 Created
Location: https://api.parse.com/1/users/g7y9tkhB7O
The response body is a JSON object containing the objectId
, the createdAt
timestamp of the newly-created object, and the sessionToken
which can be used to authenticate subsequent requests as this user:
{
"createdAt": "2011-11-07T20:58:34.448Z",
"objectId": "g7y9tkhB7O",
"sessionToken": "r:pnktnjyb996sj4p156gjtp4im"
}
After you allow users to sign up, you need to let them log in to their account with a username and password in the future. To do this, send a GET request to the /1/login
endpoint with username
and password
as URL-encoded parameters:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "X-Parse-Revocable-Session: 1" \
-G \
--data-urlencode 'username=cooldude6' \
--data-urlencode 'password=p_n7!-e8' \
https://api.parse.com/1/login
import json,httplib,urllib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
params = urllib.urlencode({"username":"cooldude6","password":"p_n7!-e8"})
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/login?%s' % params, '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"X-Parse-Revocable-Session": "1"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The X-Parse-Revocable-Session
header tells Parse to return a revocable session even if your app has “Require Revocable Sessions” turned off (at Parse.com app settings page). This is useful for transitioning from legacy session tokens to revocable sessions when your existing mobile app also accesses the same Parse data. If “Require Revocable Sessions” is turned on (default for new apps), the X-Parse-Revocable-Session
header is unnecessary. When you ask for a revocable session during login, the Parse Cloud will automatically create a Session
object. On this request, you can also tell Parse to automatically attach an installation to that session by specifying the optional X-Parse-Installation-Id
header with the installationId
of that installation.
The response body is a JSON object containing all the user-provided fields except password
. It also contains the createdAt
, updatedAt
, objectId
, and sessionToken
fields:
{
"username": "cooldude6",
"phone": "415-392-0202",
"createdAt": "2011-11-07T20:58:34.448Z",
"updatedAt": "2011-11-07T20:58:34.448Z",
"objectId": "g7y9tkhB7O",
"sessionToken": "r:pnktnjyb996sj4p156gjtp4im"
}
Enabling email verification in an application’s settings allows the application to reserve part of its experience for users with confirmed email addresses. Email verification adds the emailVerified
field to the User
object. When a User
’s email
is set or modified, emailVerified
is set to false
. Parse then emails the user a link which will set emailVerified
to true
.
There are three emailVerified
states to consider:
true
- the user confirmed his or her email address by clicking on the link Parse emailed them. Users
can never have a true
value when the user account is first created.false
- at the time the User
object was last refreshed, the user had not confirmed his or her email address. If emailVerified
is false
, consider refreshing the User
object.User
was created when email verification was off or the User
does not have an email
.You can initiate password resets for users who have emails associated with their account. To do this, send a POST request to /1/requestPasswordReset
endpoint with email
in the body of the request:
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"email":"coolguy@iloveapps.com"}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/requestPasswordReset
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/requestPasswordReset', json.dumps({
"email": "coolguy@iloveapps.com"
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
If successful, the response body is an empty JSON object.
You can also retrieve the contents of a user object by sending a GET request to the URL returned in the location header when it was created. For example, to retrieve the user created above:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
https://api.parse.com/1/users/g7y9tkhB7O
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/users/g7y9tkhB7O', '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The response body is a JSON object containing all the user-provided fields except password
. It also contains the createdAt
, updatedAt
, and objectId
fields:
{
"username": "cooldude6",
"phone": "415-392-0202",
"createdAt": "2011-11-07T20:58:34.448Z",
"updatedAt": "2011-11-07T20:58:34.448Z",
"objectId": "g7y9tkhB7O"
}
With a valid session token, you can send a GET request to the /1/users/me
endpoint to retrieve the user associated with that session token:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "X-Parse-Session-Token: r:pnktnjyb996sj4p156gjtp4im" \
https://api.parse.com/1/users/me
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/users/me', '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"X-Parse-Session-Token": "r:pnktnjyb996sj4p156gjtp4im"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The response matches the JSON object above for retrieving users. If the session token is not valid, an error object is returned:
{
"code": 209,
"error": "invalid session token"
}
In normal usage, nobody except the user is allowed to modify their own data. To authenticate themselves, the user must add a X-Parse-Session-Token
header to the request with the session token provided by the signup or login method.
To change the data on a user that already exists, send a PUT request to the user URL. Any keys you don’t specify will remain unchanged, so you can update just a subset of the user’s data. username
and password
may be changed, but the new username must not already be in use.
For example, if we wanted to change the phone number for cooldude6
:
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "X-Parse-Session-Token: r:pnktnjyb996sj4p156gjtp4im" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"phone":"415-369-6201"}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/users/g7y9tkhB7O
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('PUT', '/1/users/g7y9tkhB7O', json.dumps({
"phone": "415-369-6201"
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"X-Parse-Session-Token": "r:pnktnjyb996sj4p156gjtp4im",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The response body is a JSON object containing just an updatedAt
field with the timestamp of the update.
{
"updatedAt": "2011-11-07T21:25:10.623Z"
}
You can retrieve multiple users at once by sending a GET request to the root users URL. Without any URL parameters, this simply lists users:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
https://api.parse.com/1/users
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/users', '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The return value is a JSON object that contains a results
field with a JSON array that lists the objects.
{
"results": [
{
"username": "bigglesworth",
"phone": "650-253-0000",
"createdAt": "2011-11-07T20:58:06.445Z",
"updatedAt": "2011-11-07T20:58:06.445Z",
"objectId": "3KmCvT7Zsb"
},
{
"username": "cooldude6",
"phone": "415-369-6201",
"createdAt": "2011-11-07T20:58:34.448Z",
"updatedAt": "2011-11-07T21:25:10.623Z",
"objectId": "g7y9tkhB7O"
}
]
}
All of the options for queries that work for regular objects also work for user objects, so check the section on Querying Objects for more details.
To delete a user from the Parse Cloud, send a DELETE request to its URL. You must provide the X-Parse-Session-Token
header to authenticate. For example:
curl -X DELETE \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "X-Parse-Session-Token: r:pnktnjyb996sj4p156gjtp4im" \
https://api.parse.com/1/users/g7y9tkhB7O
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('DELETE', '/1/users/g7y9tkhB7O', '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"X-Parse-Session-Token": "r:pnktnjyb996sj4p156gjtp4im"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
Parse allows you to link your users with services like Twitter and Facebook, enabling your users to sign up or log into your application using their existing identities. This is accomplished through the sign-up and update REST endpoints by providing authentication data for the service you wish to link to a user in the authData
field. Once your user is associated with a service, the authData
for the service will be stored with the user and is retrievable by logging in.
authData
is a JSON object with keys for each linked service containing the data below. In each case, you are responsible for completing the authentication flow (e.g. OAuth 1.0a) to obtain the information the the service requires for linking.
authData
{
"facebook": {
"id": "user's Facebook id number as a string",
"access_token": "an authorized Facebook access token for the user",
"expiration_date": "token expiration date of the format: yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'"
}
}
Learn more about Facebook login.
authData
{
"twitter": {
"id": "user's Twitter id number as a string",
"screen_name": "user's Twitter screen name",
"consumer_key": "your application's consumer key",
"consumer_secret": "your application's consumer secret",
"auth_token": "an authorized Twitter token for the user with your application",
"auth_token_secret": "the secret associated with the auth_token"
}
}
Learn more about Twitter login.
authData
{
"anonymous": {
"id": "random UUID with lowercase hexadecimal digits"
}
}
Signing a user up with a linked service and logging them in with that service uses the same POST request, in which the authData
for the user is specified. For example, to sign up or log in with a user’s Twitter account:
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "X-Parse-Revocable-Session: 1" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"authData": {
"twitter": {
"id": "12345678",
"screen_name": "ParseIt",
"consumer_key": "SaMpLeId3X7eLjjLgWEw",
"consumer_secret": "SaMpLew55QbMR0vTdtOACfPXa5UdO2THX1JrxZ9s3c",
"auth_token": "12345678-SaMpLeTuo3m2avZxh5cjJmIrAfx4ZYyamdofM7IjU",
"auth_token_secret": "SaMpLeEb13SpRzQ4DAIzutEkCE2LBIm2ZQDsP3WUU"
}
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/users
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/users', json.dumps({
"authData": {
"twitter": {
"id": "12345678",
"screen_name": "ParseIt",
"consumer_key": "SaMpLeId3X7eLjjLgWEw",
"consumer_secret": "SaMpLew55QbMR0vTdtOACfPXa5UdO2THX1JrxZ9s3c",
"auth_token": "12345678-SaMpLeTuo3m2avZxh5cjJmIrAfx4ZYyamdofM7IjU",
"auth_token_secret": "SaMpLeEb13SpRzQ4DAIzutEkCE2LBIm2ZQDsP3WUU"
}
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"X-Parse-Revocable-Session": "1",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The X-Parse-Revocable-Session
header tells Parse to return a revocable session even if your app has “Require Revocable Sessions” turned off (at Parse.com app settings page). This is useful for transitioning from legacy session tokens to revocable sessions when your existing mobile app also accesses the same Parse data. If “Require Revocable Sessions” is turned on (default for new apps), the X-Parse-Revocable-Session
header is unnecessary. When you ask for a revocable session during login or signup, the Parse Cloud will automatically create a Session
object. On this request, you can also tell Parse to automatically attach an installation to that session by specifying the optional X-Parse-Installation-Id
header with the installationId
of that installation.
Parse then verifies that the provided authData
is valid and checks to see if a user is already associated with this data. If so, it returns a status code of 200 OK
and the details (including a sessionToken
for the user):
Status: 200 OK
Location: https://api.parse.com/1/users/uMz0YZeAqc
With a response body like:
{
"username": "Parse",
"createdAt": "2012-02-28T23:49:36.353Z",
"updatedAt": "2012-02-28T23:49:36.353Z",
"objectId": "uMz0YZeAqc",
"sessionToken": "r:samplei3l83eerhnln0ecxgy5",
"authData": {
"twitter": {
"id": "12345678",
"screen_name": "ParseIt",
"consumer_key": "SaMpLeId3X7eLjjLgWEw",
"consumer_secret": "SaMpLew55QbMR0vTdtOACfPXa5UdO2THX1JrxZ9s3c",
"auth_token": "12345678-SaMpLeTuo3m2avZxh5cjJmIrAfx4ZYyamdofM7IjU",
"auth_token_secret": "SaMpLeEb13SpRzQ4DAIzutEkCE2LBIm2ZQDsP3WUU"
}
}
}
If the user has never been linked with this account, you will instead receive a status code of 201 Created
, indicating that a new user was created:
Status: 201 Created
Location: https://api.parse.com/1/users/uMz0YZeAqc
The body of the response will contain the objectId
, createdAt
, sessionToken
, and an automatically-generated unique username
. For example:
{
"username": "iwz8sna7sug28v4eyu7t89fij",
"createdAt": "2012-02-28T23:49:36.353Z",
"objectId": "uMz0YZeAqc",
"sessionToken": "r:samplei3l83eerhnln0ecxgy5"
}
Linking an existing user with a service like Facebook or Twitter uses a PUT request to associate authData
with the user. For example, linking a user with a Facebook account would use a request like this:
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "X-Parse-Session-Token: r:samplei3l83eerhnln0ecxgy5" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"authData": {
"facebook": {
"id": "123456789",
"access_token": "SaMpLeAAibS7Q55FSzcERWIEmzn6rosftAr7pmDME10008bWgyZAmv7mziwfacNOhWkgxDaBf8a2a2FCc9Hbk9wAsqLYZBLR995wxBvSGNoTrEaL",
"expiration_date": "2012-02-28T23:49:36.353Z"
}
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/users/uMz0YZeAqc
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('PUT', '/1/users/uMz0YZeAqc', json.dumps({
"authData": {
"facebook": {
"id": "123456789",
"access_token": "SaMpLeAAibS7Q55FSzcERWIEmzn6rosftAr7pmDME10008bWgyZAmv7mziwfacNOhWkgxDaBf8a2a2FCc9Hbk9wAsqLYZBLR995wxBvSGNoTrEaL",
"expiration_date": "2012-02-28T23:49:36.353Z"
}
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"X-Parse-Session-Token": "r:samplei3l83eerhnln0ecxgy5",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
After linking your user to a service, you can authenticate them using matching authData
.
Unlinking an existing user with a service also uses a PUT request to clear authData
from the user by setting the authData
for the service to null
. For example, unlinking a user with a Facebook account would use a request like this:
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "X-Parse-Session-Token: r:samplei3l83eerhnln0ecxgy5" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"authData": {
"facebook": null
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/users/uMz0YZeAqc
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('PUT', '/1/users/uMz0YZeAqc', json.dumps({
"authData": {
"facebook": null
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"X-Parse-Session-Token": "r:samplei3l83eerhnln0ecxgy5",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
When you access Parse via the REST API key, access can be restricted by ACL just like in the iOS and Android SDKs. You can still read and modify acls via the REST API, just by accessing the "ACL"
key of an object.
The ACL is formatted as a JSON object where the keys are either object ids or the special key "*"
to indicate public access permissions. The values of the ACL are “permission objects”, JSON objects whose keys are the permission names and whose values are always true
.
For example, if you want the user with id "3KmCvT7Zsb"
to have read and write access to an object, plus the object should be publicly readable, that corresponds to an ACL of:
{
"3KmCvT7Zsb": {
"read": true,
"write": true
},
"*": {
"read": true
}
}
If you want to access your data ignoring all ACLs, you can use the master key provided on the Dashboard. Instead of the X-Parse-REST-API-Key
header, set the X-Parse-Master-Key
header. For backward compatibility, you can also do master-level authentication using HTTP Basic Auth, passing the application id as the username and the master key as the password. For security, the master key should not be distributed to end users, but if you are running code in a trusted environment, feel free to use the master key for authentication.
Sessions represent an instance of a user logged into a device. Sessions are automatically created when users log in or sign up. They are automatically deleted when users log out. There is one distinct Session
object for each user-installation pair; if a user issues a login request from a device they’re already logged into, that user’s previous Session
object for that Installation is automatically deleted. Session
objects are stored on Parse in the Session class, and you can view them on the Parse.com Data Browser. We provide a set of APIs to manage Session
objects in your app.
A Session
is a subclass of a Parse Object
, so you can query, update, and delete sessions in the same way that you manipulate normal objects on Parse. Because the Parse Cloud automatically creates sessions when you log in or sign up users, you should not manually create Session
objects unless you are building a “Parse for IoT” app (e.g. Arduino or Embedded C). Deleting a Session
will log the user out of the device that is currently using this session’s token.
Unlike other Parse objects, the Session
class does not have Cloud Code triggers. So you cannot register a beforeSave
or afterSave
handler for the Session class.
The Session
object has these special fields:
sessionToken
(readonly): String token for authentication on Parse API requests. In the response of Session
queries, only your current Session
object will contain a session token.user
: (readonly) Pointer to the User
object that this session is for.createdWith
(readonly): Information about how this session was created (e.g. { "action": "login", "authProvider": "password"}
).
action
could have values: login
, signup
, create
, or upgrade
. The create
action is when the developer manually creates the session by saving a Session
object. The upgrade
action is when the user is upgraded to revocable session from a legacy session token.authProvider
could have values: password
, anonymous
, facebook
, or twitter
.restricted
(readonly): Boolean for whether this session is restricted.
User
, Session
, and Role
classes on Parse. Restricted sessions also cannot read unrestricted sessions.Session
object from the client (only needed for “Parse for IoT” apps) will be restricted.expiresAt
(readonly): Approximate UTC date when this Session
object will be automatically deleted. You can configure session expiration settings (either 1-year inactivity expiration or no expiration) in your app’s Parse.com dashboard settings page.installationId
(can be set only once): String referring to the Installation
where the session is logged in from. For the REST API, you can set this by passing the X-Parse-Installation-Id
header on login and signup requests.
All special fields except installationId
can only be set automatically by the Parse Cloud. You can add custom fields onto Session
objects, but please keep in mind that any logged-in device (with session token) can read other sessions that belong to the same user (unless you disable Class-Level Permissions, see below).Apps created before March 25, 2015 use legacy session tokens until you migrate them to use the new revocable sessions. On API requests with legacy tokens, if the token is invalid (e.g. User object was deleted), then the request is executed as a non-logged in user and no error was returned. On API requests with revocable session tokens, an invalid session token will always fail with the “invalid session token” error. This new behavior lets you know when you need to ask the user to log in again.
With revocable sessions, your current session token could become invalid if its corresponding Session
object is deleted from the Parse Cloud. This could happen if you implement a Session Manager UI that lets users log out of other devices, or if you manually delete the session via Cloud Code, REST API, or Data Browser. Sessions could also be deleted due to automatic expiration (if configured in app settings). When a device’s session token no longer corresponds to a Session
object on the Parse Cloud, all API requests from that device will fail with “Error 209: invalid session token”.
For mobile apps and websites, you should not create Session
objects manually. Instead, you should call GET /1/login
and POST /1/users
(signup), which will automatically generate a Session
object in the Parse Cloud. The session token for this automatically-created session will be sent back on the login and signup response. Same for Facebook/Twitter login and signup requests.
In “Parse for IoT” apps (e.g. Arduino or Embedded C), you may want to programmatically create a restricted session that can be transferred to an IoT device. In order to do this, you must first log in normally to obtain an unrestricted session token. Then, you can create a restricted session by providing this unrestricted session token:
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "X-Parse-Session-Token: r:pnktnjyb996sj4p156gjtp4im" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"customField":"value"}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/sessions
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/sessions', json.dumps({
"customField": "value"
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"X-Parse-Session-Token": "r:pnktnjyb996sj4p156gjtp4im",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
In the above code, r:pnktnjyb996sj4p156gjtp4im
is the unrestricted session token from the original user login.
The response looks like:
{
"createdAt": "2015-03-25T18:21:52.883Z",
"createdWith": {
"action": "create"
},
"objectId": "pla1TY9co3",
"restricted": true,
"sessionToken": "r:aVrtljyb7E8xKo9256gfvp4n2"
}
At this point, you can pass the session token r:aVrtljyb7E8xKo9256gfvp4n2
to an IoT device so that it can access the current user’s data.
If you have the session’s objectId, you fetch the Session
object as long as it belongs to the same user as your current session:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "X-Parse-Session-Token: r:pnktnjyb996sj4p156gjtp4im" \
https://api.parse.com/1/sessions/Axy98kq1B09
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/sessions/Axy98kq1B09', '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"X-Parse-Session-Token": "r:pnktnjyb996sj4p156gjtp4im"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
If you only have the session’s token (from previous login or session create), you can validate and fetch the corresponding session by:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "X-Parse-Session-Token: r:pnktnjyb996sj4p156gjtp4im" \
https://api.parse.com/1/sessions/me
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/sessions/me', '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"X-Parse-Session-Token": "r:pnktnjyb996sj4p156gjtp4im"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
Updating a session is analogous to updating a Parse object.
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "X-Parse-Session-Token: r:pnktnjyb996sj4p156gjtp4im" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"customField":"value"}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/sessions/Axy98kq1B09
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/logout', '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"X-Parse-Session-Token": "r:pnktnjyb996sj4p156gjtp4im"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
Querying for Session
objects will only return objects belonging to the same user as your current session (due to the Session ACL). You can also add a where clause to your query, just like normal Parse objects.
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "X-Parse-Session-Token: r:pnktnjyb996sj4p156gjtp4im" \
https://api.parse.com/1/sessions
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/sessions', '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"X-Parse-Session-Token": "r:pnktnjyb996sj4p156gjtp4im"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
Deleting the Session object will revoke its session token and cause the user to be logged out on the device that’s currently using this session token. When you have the session token, then you can delete its Session
object by calling the logout endpoint:
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "X-Parse-Session-Token: r:pnktnjyb996sj4p156gjtp4im" \
https://api.parse.com/1/logout
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/logout', '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"X-Parse-Session-Token": "r:pnktnjyb996sj4p156gjtp4im"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
If you want to delete another Session
object for your user, and you have its objectId
, you can delete it (but not log yourself out) by:
curl -X DELETE \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "X-Parse-Session-Token: r:pnktnjyb996sj4p156gjtp4im" \
https://api.parse.com/1/sessions/Axy98kq1B09
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('DELETE', '/1/sessions/Axy98kq1B09', '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"X-Parse-Session-Token": "r:pnktnjyb996sj4p156gjtp4im"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
X-Parse-Session-Token
authenticates the request as the user that also owns session Axy98kq1B09
, which may have a different session token. You can only delete other sessions that belong to the same user.
For normal user login with the /1/login
endpoint, the Parse Cloud will set the automatically-created Session
object’s installationId
to the X-Parse-Installation-Id
header passed on the login or signup request. Therefore, for these scenarios, you don’t need to manually associate the Session
object with an installation.
The following API is most useful for “Parse for IoT” apps (e.g. Arduino or Embedded C). During IoT device provisioning, the phone typically does not know the installationId
of the IoT device. The provisioning process typically goes like this:
installationId
) for the device.Installation
object.installationId
with its session. This endpoint only works with session tokens from restricted sessions. Please note that REST API calls from an IoT device should use the Client Key, not the REST API Key.
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Client-Key: ${CLIENT_KEY}" \
-H "X-Parse-Session-Token: r:aVrtljyb7E8xKo9256gfvp4n2" \
-H "X-Parse-Installation-Id: 2d3777a5-f5fc-4caf-80be-73c766235afb" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/sessions/me
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('PUT', '/1/sessions/me', json.dumps({
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"X-Parse-Session-Token": "r:aVrtljyb7E8xKo9256gfvp4n2",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
Session
objects can only be accessed by the user specified in the user field. All Session
objects have an ACL that is read and write by that user only. You cannot change this ACL. This means querying for sessions will only return objects that match the current logged-in user.
When you log in a user via /1/login
, Parse will automatically create a new unrestricted Session
object in the Parse Cloud. Same for signups and Facebook/Twitter logins.
Session objects manually created from POST /1/sessions
are always restricted. You cannot manually create an unrestricted sessions using the object creation API.
Restricted sessions are prohibited from creating, modifying, or deleting any data in the User
, Session
, and Role
classes. Restricted session also cannot read unrestricted sessions. Restricted Sessions are useful for “Parse for IoT” devices (e.g Arduino or Embedded C) that may run in a less-trusted physical environment than mobile apps. However, please keep in mind that restricted sessions can still read data on User
, Session
, and Role
classes, and can read/write data in any other class just like a normal session. So it is still important for IoT devices to be in a safe physical environment and ideally use encrypted storage to store the session token.
If you want to prevent restricted Sessions from modifying classes other than User
, Session
, or Role
, you can write a Cloud Code beforeSave
handler for that class:
Parse.Cloud.beforeSave("MyClass", function(request, response) {
Parse.Session.current().then(function(session) {
if (session.get('restricted')) {
response.error('write operation not allowed');
}
response.success();
});
});
You can configure Class-Level Permissions (CLPs) for the Session class just like other classes on Parse. CLPs restrict reading/writing of sessions via the /1/sessions
API, but do not restrict Parse Cloud’s automatic session creation/deletion when users log in, sign up, and log out. We recommend that you disable all CLPs not needed by your app. Here are some common use cases for Session CLPs:
As your app grows in scope and user-base, you may find yourself needing more coarse-grained control over access to pieces of your data than user-linked ACLs can provide. To address this requirement, Parse supports a form of Role-based Access Control. Roles provide a logical way of grouping users with common access privileges to your Parse data. Roles are named objects that contain users and other roles. Any permission granted to a role is implicitly granted to its users as well as to the users of any roles that it contains.
For example, in your application with curated content, you may have a number of users that are considered “Moderators” and can modify and delete content created by other users. You may also have a set of users that are “Administrators” and are allowed all of the same privileges as Moderators, but can also modify the global settings for the application. By adding users to these roles, you can ensure that new users can be made moderators or administrators, without having to manually grant permission to every resource for each user.
We provide a specialized role class to represent these groupings of users for the purposes of assigning permissions. Roles have a few special fields that set them apart from other objects.
Often, in order to keep these roles secure, your mobile apps won’t be directly responsible for managing creation and membership of your roles. Instead, roles may be managed by a separate interface on the web or manually managed by an administrator. Our REST API allows you to manage your roles without requiring a mobile client.
Creating a new role differs from creating a generic object in that the name
field is required. Roles must also specify an ACL
, which should be as restrictive as possible to avoid allowing the wrong users to modify a role.
To create a new role, send a POST request to the roles root:
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"name": "Moderators",
"ACL": {
"*": {
"read": true
}
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/roles
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/roles', json.dumps({
"name": "Moderators",
"ACL": {
"*": {
"read": True
}
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
You can create a role with child roles or users by adding existing objects to the roles
and users
relations:
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"name": "Moderators",
"ACL": {
"*": {
"read": true
}
},
"roles": {
"__op": "AddRelation",
"objects": [
{
"__type": "Pointer",
"className": "_Role",
"objectId": "Ed1nuqPvc"
}
]
},
"users": {
"__op": "AddRelation",
"objects": [
{
"__type": "Pointer",
"className": "_User",
"objectId": "8TOXdXf3tz"
}
]
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/roles
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/roles', json.dumps({
"name": "Moderators",
"ACL": {
"*": {
"read": True
}
},
"roles": {
"__op": "AddRelation",
"objects": [
{
"__type": "Pointer",
"className": "_Role",
"objectId": "Ed1nuqPvc"
}
]
},
"users": {
"__op": "AddRelation",
"objects": [
{
"__type": "Pointer",
"className": "_User",
"objectId": "8TOXdXf3tz"
}
]
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
When the creation is successful, the HTTP response is a 201 Created
and the Location header contains the object URL for the new object:
Status: 201 Created
Location: https://api.parse.com/1/roles/mrmBZvsErB
The response body is a JSON object containing the objectId
and createdAt
timestamp of the newly-created object:
{
"createdAt": "2012-04-28T17:41:09.106Z",
"objectId": "mrmBZvsErB"
}
You can also retrieve the contents of a role object by sending a GET request to the URL returned in the location header when it was created. For example, to retrieve the role created above:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
https://api.parse.com/1/roles/mrmBZvsErB
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/roles/mrmBZvsErB', '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The response body is a JSON object containing all of the fields on the role:
{
"createdAt": "2012-04-28T17:41:09.106Z",
"objectId": "mrmBZvsErB",
"updatedAt": "2012-04-28T17:41:09.106Z",
"ACL": {
"*": {
"read": true
},
"role:Administrators": {
"write": true
}
},
"name": "Moderators"
}
Note that the users
and roles
relations will not be visible in this JSON. Instead, you must query for the roles and users that belong to a given role using the $relatedTo
operator.
Updating a role generally works like updating any other object, but the name
field on the role cannot be changed. Adding and removing users and roles to the users
and roles
relations can be accomplished by using the AddRelation
and RemoveRelation
operators.
For example, we can add two users to the “Moderators” role created above like so:
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"users": {
"__op": "AddRelation",
"objects": [
{
"__type": "Pointer",
"className": "_User",
"objectId": "8TOXdXf3tz"
},
{
"__type": "Pointer",
"className": "_User",
"objectId": "g7y9tkhB7O"
}
]
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/roles/mrmBZvsErB
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('PUT', '/1/roles/mrmBZvsErB', json.dumps({
"users": {
"__op": "AddRelation",
"objects": [
{
"__type": "Pointer",
"className": "_User",
"objectId": "8TOXdXf3tz"
},
{
"__type": "Pointer",
"className": "_User",
"objectId": "g7y9tkhB7O"
}
]
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-Master-Key": "${MASTER_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
Similarly, we can remove a child role from the “Moderators” role created above like so:
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"roles": {
"__op": "RemoveRelation",
"objects": [
{
"__type": "Pointer",
"className": "_Role",
"objectId": "Ed1nuqPvc"
}
]
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/roles/mrmBZvsErB
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('PUT', '/1/roles/mrmBZvsErB', json.dumps({
"roles": {
"__op": "RemoveRelation",
"objects": [
{
"__type": "Pointer",
"className": "_Role",
"objectId": "Ed1nuqPvc"
}
]
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-Master-Key": "${MASTER_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
Note that we’ve included the master key in the query above because the “Moderators” role has an ACL that restricts modification by the public.
To delete a role from the Parse Cloud, send a DELETE request to its URL. For example:
curl -X DELETE \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
https://api.parse.com/1/roles/mrmBZvsErB
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('DELETE', '/1/roles/mrmBZvsErB', '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-Master-Key": "${MASTER_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
Again, we pass the master key in order to bypass the ACL on the role itself. Alternatively, we could pass an X-Parse-Session-Token for a user that has write access to the Role object (e.g. an Administrator). For example:
curl -X DELETE \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "X-Parse-Session-Token: pnktnjyb996sj4p156gjtp4im" \
https://api.parse.com/1/roles/mrmBZvsErB
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('DELETE', '/1/roles/mrmBZvsErB', '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"X-Parse-Session-Token": "pnktnjyb996sj4p156gjtp4im"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
When you access Parse via the REST API key, access can be restricted by ACL just like in the iOS and Android SDKs. You can still read and modify ACLs via the REST API, just by accessing the "ACL"
key of an object.
In addition to per-user permissions as described above, you can also specify role-level permissions to your Parse objects. Instead of specifying an objectId
as the key for a permission object as you do for users, you can instead specify a role’s name with a "role:"
prefix as the key for a permission object. You can use role-level permissions alongside user-level permissions to provide fine-grained control over user access.
For example, to restrict an object to be readable by anyone in the “Members” role and writable by its creator and anyone in the “Moderators” role, you would specify an ACL like this:
{
"8TOXdXf3tz": {
"write": true
},
"role:Members": {
"read": true
},
"role:Moderators": {
"write": true
}
}
You are not required to specify read permissions for the user or the “Moderators” role if the user and role are already children of the “Members” role, since they will inherit read permissions granted to “Members”.
As described above, one role can contain another, establishing a parent-child relationship between the two roles. The consequence of this relationship is that any permission granted to the parent role is implicitly granted to all of its child roles.
These types of relationships are commonly found in applications with user-managed content, such as forums. Some small subset of users are “Administrators”, with the highest level of access to tweaking the application’s settings, creating new forums, setting global messages, and so on. Another set of users are “Moderators”, who are responsible for ensuring that the content created by users remains appropriate. Any user with Administrator privileges should also be granted the permissions of any Moderator. To establish this relationship, you would make your “Administrators” role a child role of “Moderators” by adding the “Administrators” role to the roles
relation on your “Moderators” object like this:
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"roles": {
"__op": "AddRelation",
"objects": [
{
"__type": "Pointer",
"className": "_Role",
"objectId": ""
}
]
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/roles/
</code></pre>
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('PUT', '/1/roles/', json.dumps({
"roles": {
"__op": "AddRelation",
"objects": [
{
"__type": "Pointer",
"className": "_Role",
"objectId": ""
}
]
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-Master-Key": "${MASTER_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
</code></pre>
To upload a file to Parse, send a POST request to the files URL, postfixed with the name of the file. The request must contain the Content-Type
header associated with the file. Keep in mind that files are limited to 10 megabytes. Here’s a simple example that’ll create a file named hello.txt
containing a string:
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: text/plain" \
-d 'Hello, World!' \
https://api.parse.com/1/files/hello.txt
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/files/hello.txt', 'Hello, World!', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "text/plain"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
When the file upload is successful, the HTTP response is a 201 Created
and the Location
header which contains the URL for the file:
Status: 201 Created
Location: http://files.parsetfss.com/bc9f32df-2957-4bb1-93c9-ec47d9870a05/tfss-db295fb2-8a8b-49f3-aad3-dd911142f64f-hello.txt
The response body is a JSON object containing the name
of the file, which is the original file name prefixed with a unique identifier in order to prevent name collisions. This means you can save files with the same name, and the files will not overwrite one another.
{
"url": "http://files.parsetfss.com/bc9f32df-2957-4bb1-93c9-ec47d9870a05/tfss-db295fb2-8a8b-49f3-aad3-dd911142f64f-hello.txt",
"name": "db295fb2-8a8b-49f3-aad3-dd911142f64f-hello.txt"
}
To upload an image, the syntax is a little bit different. Here’s an example that will upload the image myPicture.jpg
from the current directory.
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: image/jpeg" \
--data-binary '@myPicture.jpg' \
https://api.parse.com/1/files/pic.jpg
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/files/pic.jpg', open('myPicture.jpg', 'rb').read(), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "image/jpeg"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
After files are uploaded, you can associate them with Parse objects:
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"name": "Andrew",
"picture": {
"name": "...profile.png",
"url": "...profile.png",
"__type": "File"
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/PlayerProfile
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/classes/PlayerProfile', json.dumps({
"name": "Andrew",
"picture": {
"name": "...profile.png",
"url:": "...profile.png",
"__type": "File"
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
Note that the name of the file in the request is not the local file name, but the name in the response of the previous upload operation. It is also important to add the url
from the previous upload operation to the request.
Users holding the master key are allowed to delete files using the REST API. To delete a file, send a DELETE request to the files URL, postfixed with the name of the file. Note that the name of the file must be the name in the response of the upload operation, rather than the original filename. Note that the X-Parse-Master-Key
must be provided in headers.
curl -X DELETE \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
https://api.parse.com/1/files/...profile.png
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('DELETE', '/1/files/...profile.png', '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-Master-Key": "${MASTER_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
Note that deleting a PFObject with a file associated with it will not delete the file. All files stored on Parse should be deleted by using the above explained API.
Parse allows you to associate real-world latitude and longitude coordinates with an object. Adding a GeoPoint
data type to a class allows queries to take into account the proximity of an object to a reference point. This allows you to easily do things like find out what user is closest to another user or which places are closest to a user.
To associate a point with an object you will need to embed a GeoPoint
data type into your object. This is done by using a JSON object with __type
set to the string GeoPoint
and numeric values being set for the latitude
and longitude
keys. For example, to create an object containing a point under the “location” key with a latitude of 40.0 degrees and -30.0 degrees longitude:
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"location": {
"__type": "GeoPoint",
"latitude": 40.0,
"longitude": -30.0
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/PlaceObject
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/classes/PlaceObject', json.dumps({
"location": {
"__type": "GeoPoint",
"latitude": 40.0,
"longitude": -30.0
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
Now that you have a bunch of objects with spatial coordinates, it would be nice to find out which objects are closest to a point. This can be done by using a GeoPoint
data type with query on the field using $nearSphere
. Getting a list of ten places that are closest to a user may look something like:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode 'limit=10' \
--data-urlencode 'where={
"location": {
"$nearSphere": {
"__type": "GeoPoint",
"latitude": 30.0,
"longitude": -20.0
}
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/PlaceObject
import json,httplib,urllib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
params = urllib.urlencode({"limit":10,"where":json.dumps({
"location": {
"$nearSphere": {
"__type": "GeoPoint",
"latitude": 30.0,
"longitude": -20.0
}
}
})})
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/PlaceObject?%s' % params, '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
This will return a list of results ordered by distance from 30.0 latitude and -20.0 longitude. The first result will be the nearest object. (Note that if an explicit order
parameter is supplied, it will take precedence over the distance ordering.) For example, here are two results returned for the above query:
{
"results": [
{
"location": {
"latitude": 40.0,
"__type": "GeoPoint",
"longitude": -30.0
},
"updatedAt": "2011-12-06T22:36:04.983Z",
"createdAt": "2011-12-06T22:36:04.983Z",
"objectId": "iFEPN5Gwoz"
},
{
"location": {
"latitude": 60.0,
"__type": "GeoPoint",
"longitude": -20.0
},
"updatedAt": "2011-12-06T22:36:26.143Z",
"createdAt": "2011-12-06T22:36:26.143Z",
"objectId": "LAyNKSNTHT"
}
]
}
To limit the search to a maximum distance add a $maxDistanceInMiles
(for miles), $maxDistanceInKilometers
(for kms), or $maxDistanceInRadians
(for radian angle), term to the key constraint. For example, the following limits the radius to 10 miles:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode 'where={
"location": {
"$nearSphere": {
"__type": "GeoPoint",
"latitude": 30.0,
"longitude": -20.0
},
"$maxDistanceInMiles": 10.0
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/PlaceObject
import json,httplib,urllib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
params = urllib.urlencode({"where":json.dumps({
"location": {
"$nearSphere": {
"__type": "GeoPoint",
"latitude": 30.0,
"longitude": -20.0
},
"$maxDistanceInMiles": 10.0
}
})})
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/PlaceObject?%s' % params, '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
It’s also possible to query for the set of objects that are contained within a particular area. To find the objects in a rectangular bounding box, add a clause to the key constraint with the format {"$within": {"$box": {[southwestGeoPoint, northeastGeoPoint]}}}
.
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-G \
--data-urlencode 'where={
"location": {
"$within": {
"$box": [
{
"__type": "GeoPoint",
"latitude": 37.71,
"longitude": -122.53
},
{
"__type": "GeoPoint",
"latitude": 30.82,
"longitude": -122.37
}
]
}
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/classes/PizzaPlaceObject
import json,httplib,urllib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
params = urllib.urlencode({"where":json.dumps({
"location": {
"$within": {
"$box": [
{
"__type": "GeoPoint",
"latitude": 37.71,
"longitude": -122.53
},
{
"__type": "GeoPoint",
"latitude": 30.82,
"longitude": -122.37
}
]
}
}
})})
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/classes/PizzaPlaceObject?%s' % params, '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
At the moment there are a couple of things to watch out for:
$nearSphere
constraint will also limit results to within 100 miles.GeoPoint
’s with latitude and/or longitude outside these ranges will cause an error.Push Notifications are a great way to keep your users engaged and informed about your app. You can reach your entire user base quickly and effectively. This guide will help you through the setup process and the general usage of Parse to send push notifications.
If you haven’t installed the SDK yet, please head over to the Push QuickStart to get our SDK up and running.
An installation object represents an instance of your app being installed on a device. These objects are used to store subscription data for installations which have subscribed to one or more push notification channels. Installations have a flexible schema, except that the special fields below have special type and validation requirements:
badge
: is a number field representing the last known application badge for iOS installations.channels
: An array of the channels to which a device is currently subscribed.timeZone
: The current time zone where the target device is located. This should be an IANA time zone identifier.deviceType
: The type of device, “ios”, “android”, “winrt”, “winphone”, or “dotnet”(readonly).pushType
: This field is reserved for directing Parse to the push delivery network to be used. If the device is registered to receive pushes via GCM, this field will be marked “gcm”. If this device is not using GCM, and is using Parse’s push notification service, it will be blank (readonly).GCMSenderId
: This field only has meaning for Android installations that use the GCM push type. It is reserved for directing Parse to send pushes to this installation with an alternate GCM sender ID. This field should generally not be set unless you are uploading installation data from another push provider. If you set this field, then you must set the GCM API key corresponding to this GCM sender ID in your Parse application’s push settings.installationId
: Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) for the device used by Parse. It must be unique across all of an app’s installations. (readonly).deviceToken
: The Apple or Google generated token used to deliver messages to the APNs or GCM push networks respectively.channelUris
: The Microsoft-generated push URIs for Windows devices.appName
: The display name of the client application to which this installation belongs.appVersion
: The version string of the client application to which this installation belongs.parseVersion
: The version of the Parse SDK which this installation uses.appIdentifier
: A unique identifier for this installation’s client application. In iOS, this is the Bundle Identifier.Most of the time, installation data is modified by push-related methods in the client SDK. For example, calling subscribeToChannel
or unsubscribeFromChannel
from the client SDK will create an object for that installation if it doesn’t yet exist and update its channels, and calling getSubscribedChannels
from the client SDK will read subscription data from that installation’s object. The REST methods can be used to mimic these operations. For instance, if you have an iOS device token then you can subscribe it to push notifications by creating an installation object for it with the desired channels
list. You can also perform operations which aren’t possible through the client SDK, like using a query over installations to find the set of subscribers to a given channel.
Creating an installation object is similar to creating a generic object, but the special installation fields listed above must pass validation. For example, if you have a device token provided by the Apple Push Notification service and would like to subscribe it to the broadcast channel ""
, you can use the following command:
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"deviceType": "ios",
"deviceToken": "0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef",
"channels": [
""
]
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/installations
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/installations', json.dumps({
"deviceType": "ios",
"deviceToken": "0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef",
"channels": [
""
]
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
When the creation is successful, the HTTP response is a 201 Created
and the Location
header contains the URL for the new installation:
Status: 201 Created
Location: https://api.parse.com/1/installations/mrmBZvsErB
The response body is a JSON object containing the objectId
and the createdAt
timestamp of the newly-created installation:
{
"createdAt": "2012-04-28T17:41:09.106Z",
"objectId": "mrmBZvsErB"
}
When creating Android installation objects containing GCM (Google Cloud Messaging) credentials, you must have at least the following fields in your installation object:
deviceType
set to android
.pushType
set to gcm
.deviceToken
field.GCMSenderId
field.You could create and object with these fields using a command like this:
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"deviceType": "android",
"pushType": "gcm",
"deviceToken": "APA91bFMvbrGg4cp3KUV_7dhU1gmwE_...",
"GCMSenderId": "56712320625545",
"channels": [
""
]
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/installations
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/installations', json.dumps({
"deviceType": "android",
"pushType": "gcm",
"deviceToken": "APA91bFMvbrGg4cp3KUV_7dhU1gmwE_...",
"GCMSenderId": "56712320625545",
"channels": [
""
]
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
If you upload Android installations with GCM credentials, then you must also set the GCM API Key associated with this GCM sender ID in your application’s push settings.
You can retrieve the contents of an installation object by sending a GET request to the URL returned in the location header when it was created. For example, to retrieve the installation created above:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
https://api.parse.com/1/installations/mrmBZvsErB
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/installations/mrmBZvsErB', '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The response body is a JSON object containing all the user-provided fields, plus the createdAt
, updatedAt
, and objectId
fields:
{
"deviceType": "ios",
"deviceToken": "0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef",
"channels": [
""
],
"createdAt": "2012-04-28T17:41:09.106Z",
"updatedAt": "2012-04-28T17:41:09.106Z",
"objectId": "mrmBZvsErB"
}
Installation objects can be updated by sending a PUT request to the installation URL. For example, to subscribe the installation above to the “foo” push channel:
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"deviceType": "ios",
"deviceToken": "0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef",
"channels": [
"",
"foo"
]
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/installations/mrmBZvsErB
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('PUT', '/1/installations/mrmBZvsErB', json.dumps({
"deviceType": "ios",
"deviceToken": "0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef",
"channels": [
"",
"foo"
]
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
Note that there is a restriction on updating the deviceToken
field of Installation objects. You can only update the deviceToken
field of an Installation object if contains a non-nil installationId
field.
You can retrieve multiple installations at once by sending a GET request to the root installations URL. This functionality is not available in the SDKs, so you must authenticate this method using the X-Parse-Master-Key
header in your request instead of the X-Parse-REST-API-Key
header. Your master key allows you to bypass ACLs and should only be used from within a trusted environment.
Without any URL parameters, a GET request simply lists installations:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
https://api.parse.com/1/installations
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/installations', '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-Master-Key": "${MASTER_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The return value is a JSON object that contains a results field with a JSON array that lists the users.
{
"results": [
{
"deviceType": "ios",
"deviceToken": "0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef",
"channels": [
""
],
"createdAt": "2012-04-28T17:41:09.106Z",
"updatedAt": "2012-04-28T17:41:09.106Z",
"objectId": "mrmBZvsErB"
},
{
"deviceType": "ios",
"deviceToken": "fedcba9876543210fedcba9876543210fedcba9876543210fedcba9876543210",
"channels": [
""
],
"createdAt": "2012-04-30T01:52:57.975Z",
"updatedAt": "2012-04-30T01:52:57.975Z",
"objectId": "sGlvypFQcO"
}
]
}
All of the options for queries that work for regular objects also work for installation objects, so check the section on Querying Objects for more details. By doing an array query over channels
, for example, you can find the set of devices subscribed to a given push channel.
To delete an installation from the Parse Cloud, send a DELETE request to its URL. This functionality is not available in the client SDKs, so you must authenticate this method using the X-Parse-Master-Key
header in your request instead of the X-Parse-REST-API-Key
header. Your master key allows you to bypass ACLs and should only be used from within a trusted environment. For example:
curl -X DELETE \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
https://api.parse.com/1/installations/mrmBZvsErB
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('DELETE', '/1/installations/mrmBZvsErB', '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-Master-Key": "${MASTER_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
There are two ways to send push notifications using Parse: channels and advanced targeting. Channels offer a simple and easy to use model for sending pushes, while advanced targeting offers a more powerful and flexible model. Both are fully compatible with each other and will be covered in this section.
You can view your past push notifications on the Parse.com push console for up to 30 days after creating your push. For pushes scheduled in the future, you can delete the push on the push console as long as no sends have happened yet. After you send the push, the push console shows push analytics graphs.
The simplest way to start sending notifications is using channels. This allows you to use a publisher-subscriber model for sending pushes. Devices start by subscribing to one or more channels, and notifications can later be sent to these subscribers. The channels subscribed to by a given Installation
are stored in the channels
field of the Installation
object.
A channel is identified by a string that starts with a letter and consists of alphanumeric characters, underscores, and dashes. It doesn’t need to be explicitly created before it can be used and each Installation
can subscribe to any number of channels at a time.
Subscribing to a channel via the REST API can be done by updating the Installation
object. We send a PUT request to the Installation
URL and update the channels
field. For example, in a baseball score app, we could do:
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"channels": [
"Giants"
]
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/installations/mrmBZvsErB
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('PUT', '/1/installations/mrmBZvsErB', json.dumps({
"channels": [
"Giants"
]
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
Once subscribed to the “Giants” channel, your Installation
object should have an updated channels
field.
To unsubscribe from a channel you would need to update the channels
array and remove the unsubscribed channel.
With the REST API, the following code can be used to alert all subscribers of the “Giants” and “Mets” channels about the results of the game. This will display a notification center alert to iOS users and a system tray notification to Android users.
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"channels": [
"Giants",
"Mets"
],
"data": {
"alert": "The Giants won against the Mets 2-3."
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/push
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/push', json.dumps({
"channels": [
"Giants",
"Mets"
],
"data": {
"alert": "The Giants won against the Mets 2-3."
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
While channels are great for many applications, sometimes you need more precision when targeting the recipients of your pushes. Parse allows you to write a query for any subset of your Installation
objects using the querying API and to send them a push.
Since Installation
objects are just like any other object stored in Parse, you can save any data you want and even create relationships between Installation
objects and your other objects. This allows you to send pushes to a very customized and dynamic segment of your user base.
Storing arbitrary data on an Installation
object is done in the same way we store data on any other object on Parse. In our Baseball app, we could allow users to get pushes about game results, scores and injury reports.
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"scores": true,
"gameResults": true,
"injuryReports": true
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/installations/mrmBZvsErB
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('PUT', '/1/installations/mrmBZvsErB', json.dumps({
"scores": True,
"gameResults": True,
"injuryReports": True
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
You can even create relationships between your Installation
objects and other classes saved on Parse. To associate an Installation with a particular user, for example, you can use a pointer to the _User
class on the Installation
.
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"user": {
"__type": "Pointer",
"className": "_User",
"objectId": "vmRZXZ1Dvo"
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/installations/mrmBZvsErB
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('PUT', '/1/installations/mrmBZvsErB', json.dumps({
"user": {
"__type": "Pointer",
"className": "_User",
"objectId": "vmRZXZ1Dvo"
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
Once you have your data stored on your Installation
objects, you can use a query to target a subset of these devices. Installation
queries work just like any other Parse query.
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"where": {
"injuryReports": true
},
"data": {
"alert": "Willie Hayes injured by own pop fly."
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/push
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/push', json.dumps({
"where": {
"injuryReports": True
},
"data": {
"alert": "Willie Hayes injured by own pop fly."
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
We can even use channels with our query. To send a push to all subscribers of the “Giants” channel but filtered by those who want score update, we can do the following:
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"where": {
"channels": "Giants",
"scores": true
},
"data": {
"alert": "The Giants scored a run! The score is now 2-2."
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/push
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/push', json.dumps({
"where": {
"channels": "Giants",
"scores": True
},
"data": {
"alert": "The Giants scored a run! The score is now 2-2."
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
If we store relationships to other objects in our Installation
class, we can also use those in our query. For example, we could send a push notification to all users near a given location like this.
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"where": {
"user": {
"$inQuery": {
"location": {
"$nearSphere": {
"__type": "GeoPoint",
"latitude": 30.0,
"longitude": -20.0
},
"$maxDistanceInMiles": 1.0
}
}
}
},
"data": {
"alert": "Free hotdogs at the Parse concession stand!"
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/push
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/push', json.dumps({
"where": {
"user": {
"$inQuery": {
"location": {
"$nearSphere": {
"__type": "GeoPoint",
"latitude": 30.0,
"longitude": -20.0
},
"$maxDistanceInMiles": 1.0
}
}
}
},
"data": {
"alert": "Free hotdogs at the Parse concession stand!"
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
An in depth look at the Installation
end point can be found in the REST guide.
Push notifications can do more than just send a message. In iOS, pushes can also include the sound to be played, the badge number to display as well as any custom data you wish to send. In Android, it is even possible to specify an Intent
to be fired upon receipt of a notification. An expiration date can also be set for the notification in case it is time sensitive.
If you want to send more than just a message, you can set other fields in the data
dictionary. There are some reserved fields that have a special meaning.
alert
: the notification’s message.badge
: (iOS only) the value indicated in the top right corner of the app icon. This can be set to a value or to Increment
in order to increment the current value by 1.sound
: (iOS only) the name of a sound file in the application bundle.content-available
: (iOS only) If you are a writing a Newsstand app, or an app using the Remote Notification Background Mode introduced in iOS7 (a.k.a. “Background Push”), set this value to 1 to trigger a background download.category
: (iOS only) the identifier of the UIUserNotificationCategory
for this push notification.uri
: (Android only) an optional field that contains a URI. When the notification is opened, an Activity
associated with opening the URI is launched.title
: (Android only) the value displayed in the Android system tray notification.For example, to send a notification that increases the current badge number by 1 and plays a custom sound for iOS devices, and displays a particular title for Android users, you can do the following:
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"channels": [
"Mets"
],
"data": {
"alert": "The Mets scored! The game is now tied 1-1.",
"badge": "Increment",
"sound": "cheering.caf",
"title": "Mets Score!"
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/push
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/push', json.dumps({
"channels": [
"Mets"
],
"data": {
"alert": "The Mets scored! The game is now tied 1-1.",
"badge": "Increment",
"sound": "cheering.caf",
"title": "Mets Score!"
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
It is also possible to specify your own data in this dictionary. As explained in the Receiving Notifications section for iOS and Android, iOS will give you access to this data only when the user opens your app via the notification and Android will provide you this data in the Intent
if one is specified.
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/push', json.dumps({
"channels": [
"Indians"
],
"data": {
"action": "com.example.UPDATE_STATUS",
"alert": "Ricky Vaughn was injured during the game last night!",
"name": "Vaughn",
"newsItem": "Man bites dog"
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
When a user’s device is turned off or not connected to the internet, push notifications cannot be delivered. If you have a time sensitive notification that is not worth delivering late, you can set an expiration date. This avoids needlessly alerting users of information that may no longer be relevant.
There are two parameters provided by Parse to allow setting an expiration date for your notification. The first is expiration_time
which takes a date (in ISO 8601 format or Unix epoch time) specifying when Parse should stop trying to send the notification. To expire the notification exactly 1 week from now, you can use the following command.
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"expiration_time": "2015-03-19T22:05:08Z",
"data": {
"alert": "Season tickets on sale until March 19, 2015"
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/push
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/push', json.dumps({
"expiration_time": "2015-03-19T22:05:08Z",
"data": {
"alert": "Season tickets on sale until March 19, 2015"
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
Alternatively, you can use the expiration_interval
parameter to specify a duration of time before your notification expired. This value is relative to the push_time
parameter used to schedule notifications. This means that a push notification scheduled to be sent out in 1 day and an expiration interval of 6 days can be received up to a week from March 16th, 2015.
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"push_time": "2015-03-13T22:05:08Z",
"expiration_interval": 518400,
"data": {
"alert": "Season tickets on sale until March 19, 2015"
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/push
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/push', json.dumps({
"push_time": "2015-03-13T22:05:08Z",
"expiration_interval": 518400,
"data": {
"alert": "Season tickets on sale until March 19, 2015"
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
### Targeting by Platform
If you build a cross platform app, it is possible you may only want to target iOS or Android devices. There are two methods provided to filter which of these devices are targeted. Note that both platforms are targeted by default.
The following examples would send a different notification to Android, iOS, and Windows users.
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"where": {
"deviceType": "android"
},
"data": {
"alert": "Your suitcase has been filled with tiny robots!"
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/push
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/push', json.dumps({
"where": {
"deviceType": "android"
},
"data": {
"alert": "Your suitcase has been filled with tiny robots!"
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"where": {
"deviceType": "ios"
},
"data": {
"alert": "Your suitcase has been filled with tiny apples!"
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/push
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/push', json.dumps({
"where": {
"deviceType": "ios"
},
"data": {
"alert": "Your suitcase has been filled with tiny apples!"
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"where": {
"deviceType": "winrt"
},
"data": {
"alert": "Your suitcase has been filled with tiny glass!"
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/push
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/push', json.dumps({
"where": {
"deviceType": "winrt"
},
"data": {
"alert": "Your suitcase has been filled with tiny glass!"
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"where": {
"deviceType": "winphone"
},
"data": {
"alert": "Your suitcase is very hip; very metro."
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/push
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/push', json.dumps({
"where": {
"deviceType": "winphone"
},
"data": {
"alert": "Your suitcase is very hip; very metro."
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
You can schedule a push in advance by specifying a push_time
. For example, if a user schedules a game reminder for a game on March 19th, 2015 at noon UTC, you can schedule the push notification by sending:
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"where": {
"user_id": "user_123"
},
"push_time": "2015-03-19T12:00:00Z",
"data": {
"alert": "You previously created a reminder for the game today"
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/push
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/push', json.dumps({
"where": {
"user_id": "user_123"
},
"push_time": "2015-03-19T12:00:00Z",
"data": {
"alert": "You previously created a reminder for the game today"
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
If you also specify an expiration_interval
, it will be calculated from the scheduled push time, not from the time the push is submitted. This means a push scheduled to be sent in a week with an expiration interval of a day will expire 8 days after the request is sent.
The scheduled time cannot be in the past, and can be up to two weeks in the future. It can be an ISO 8601 date with a date, time, and timezone, as in the example above, or it can be a numeric value representing a UNIX epoch time in seconds (UTC). To schedule an alert for 08/22/2015 at noon UTC time, you can set the push_time
to either 2015-08-022T12:00:00.000Z
or 1440226800000
.
The push_time
parameter can schedule a push to be delivered to each device according to its time zone. This technique delivers a push to all Installation
objects with a timeZone
member when that time zone would match the push time. For example, if an app had a device in timezone America/New_York
and another in America/Los_Angeles
, the first would receive the push three hours before the latter.
To schedule a push according to each device’s local time, the push_time
parameter should be an ISO 8601 date without a time zone, i.e. 2015-03-19T12:00:00
. Note that Installations without a timeZone
will be excluded from this localized push.
Parse Config
is a way to configure your applications remotely by storing a single configuration object on Parse. It enables you to add things like feature gating or a simple “Message of the day”. To start using Parse Config
you need to add a few key/value pairs (parameters) to your app on the Parse Config Dashboard.
After that you will be able to fetch the config on the client by sending a GET
request to config URL. Here is a simple example that will fetch the Parse.Config
:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
https://api.parse.com/1/config
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/config', '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The response body is a JSON object containing all the configuration parameters in the params
field.
{
"params": {
"welcomeMessage": "Welcome to The Internet!",
"winningNumber": 42
}
}
You can also update the config by sending a PUT
request to config URL. Here is a simple example that will update the Parse.Config
:
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
-d "{\"params\":{\"winningNumber\":43}}"
https://api.parse.com/1/config
var request = require('request');
return request({
method: 'PUT',
url: Parse.serverURL + '/config',
headers: {
'X-Parse-Application-Id': Parse.applicationId,
'X-Parse-Master-Key': Parse.masterKey
},
json: true,
body: {
params: { winningNumber: 43 }
}
})
The response body is a JSON object containing a simple boolean value in the result
field.
{
"result": true
}
Parse provides a number of hooks for you to get a glimpse into the ticking heart of your app. We understand that it’s important to understand what your app is doing, how frequently, and when.
While this section will cover different ways to instrument your app to best take advantage of Parse’s analytics backend, developers using Parse to store and retrieve data can already take advantage of metrics on Parse.
Without having to implement any client-side logic, you can view real-time graphs and breakdowns (by device type, Parse class name, or REST verb) of your API Requests in your app’s dashboard and save these graph filters to quickly access just the data you’re interested in.
The current server time will be used for all analytics requests. To explicitly set the time associated with a given event, an optional at
parameter can be provided in ISO 8601 format.
-d '{
"at": {
"__type": "Date",
"iso": "2015-03-01T15:59:11-07:00"
}
}
Our analytics hook allows you to track your application being launched. By making a POST request to our REST API, you’ll begin to collect data on when and how often your application is opened.
In the example below, the at
parameter is optional. If omitted, the current server time will be used instead.
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/events/AppOpened
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/events/AppOpened', json.dumps({
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
Graphs and breakdowns of your statistics are accessible from your app’s Dashboard.
Parse Analytics also allows you to track free-form events, with a handful of string keys and values. These extra dimensions allow segmentation of your custom events via your app’s Dashboard.
Say your app offers search functionality for apartment listings, and you want to track how often the feature is used, with some additional metadata.
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"dimensions": {
"priceRange": "1000-1500",
"source": "craigslist",
"dayType": "weekday"
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/events/Search
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/events/Search', json.dumps({
"dimensions": {
"priceRange": "1000-1500",
"source": "craigslist",
"dayType": "weekday"
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
Parse Analytics can even be used as a lightweight error tracker — simply invoke the following and you’ll have access to an overview of the rate and frequency of errors, broken down by error code, in your application:
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"dimensions": {
"code": "404"
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/events/Error
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/events/Error', json.dumps({
"dimensions": {
"code": "404"
}
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
Note that Parse currently only stores the first eight dimension pairs per call to /1/events/<eventName>
.
Cloud Functions can be called using the REST API. For example, to call the Cloud Function named hello
:
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-REST-API-Key: ${REST_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/functions/hello
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/functions/hello', json.dumps({
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-REST-API-Key": "${REST_API_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
Similarly, you can trigger a background job from the REST API. For example, to trigger the job named userMigration
:
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"plan":"paid"}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/jobs/userMigration
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/jobs/userMigration', json.dumps({
"plan": "paid"
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-Master-Key": "${MASTER_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
Schema is the structure representing classes in your app. You can use the schema of an app to verify operations in a unit test, generate test data, generate test classes and then clean up after tests. The schema API can also be used to create custom views of your data. We use the schema API to display columns names and types in the databrowser.
This API allows you to access the schemas of your app.
Note: This API can be only accessed using the master key
.
To fetch the Schema for all the classes of your app, run:
Note: createdAt
and updatedAt
are of type Date
but they are represented
as strings in object representation. This is a special case for the Parse API.
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
https://api.parse.com/1/schemas
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/schemas', '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-Master-Key": "${MASTER_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The response body is JSON containing all the schema information of the app.
{
"results": [
{
"className": "Game",
"fields": {
"ACL": {
"type": "ACL"
},
"createdAt": {
"type": "Date"
},
"objectId": {
"type": "String"
},
"name": {
"type": "String"
},
"score": {
"type": "Number"
},
"updatedAt": {
"type": "Date"
}
}
},
...
]
}
To fetch schema of a single class, run:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
https://api.parse.com/1/schemas/Game
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/schemas/Game', "", {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-Master-Key": "${MASTER_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
When you add a new schema to your app, it creates an empty class with the provided fields and some default fields applicable to the class. To add the schema, run:
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '
{
"className": "City",
"fields": {
"name": {
"type": "String"
}
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/schemas/City
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/schemas/Game', json.dumps({
"className":"City","fields":{"name":{"type":"String"} }
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-Master-Key": "${MASTER_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
You can add or delete columns to a schema. To do so, run:
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '
{
"className": "City",
"fields": {
"population": {
"type": "Number"
}
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/schemas/City
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('PUT', '/1/schemas/City', json.dumps(
"className":"City","fields":{"population":{"type":"Number"} }
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-Master-Key": "${MASTER_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
To delete a particular field, you need to use {"__op" : "Delete" }
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '
{
"className": "City",
"fields": {
"population": {
"__op": "Delete"
}
}
}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/schemas/City
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('PUT', '/1/schemas/Game', json.dumps(
"className":"City","fields":{"population":{"__op" : "Delete"} }
}), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-Master-Key": "${MASTER_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
You can only remove a schema from your app if it is empty (has 0 objects). To do that, run:
curl -X DELETE\
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
https://api.parse.com/1/schemas/City
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('PUT', '/1/schemas/City', "", {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-Master-Key": "${MASTER_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
You can view, create, and edit your Parse apps via the REST API, in addition to through your parse.com dashboard. By authenticating with your Parse account’s email and password, you can fetch all the app keys for each of the apps that you are a collaborator on, create a new app that you own, or update the settings of an app that you are a collaborator on. This API can be used to create test apps to run in automated tests, and in combination with the schema API can be used to programmatically replicate your existing app into a test app.
Authentication for the apps endpoint is done a little differently than the rest
of the REST API. Instead of authenticating with one of your app’s keys, you must use your account’s login info.
The X-Parse-Email
header identifies which account you are using,
and the X-Parse-Password
header authenticates the endpoint.
If your account has no password set, because you used Facebook, GitHub, or Google
to log in, then go to your account page to
set a password.
Alternatively, you can also generate a Parse account key
and use the header X-Parse-Account-Key
instead.
To fetch the keys and settings for all of the apps that you are a collaborator on, run:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Email: " \
-H "X-Parse-Password: " \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
https://api.parse.com/1/apps
</code></pre>
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/apps', '', {
"X-Parse-Email": "",
"X-Parse-Password": "",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
</code></pre>
The response body is JSON containing the keys and settings for your apps.
{
"results": [
{
"appName": "",
"applicationId": "",
"clientClassCreationEnabled": true,
"clientPushEnabled": false,
"dashboardURL": "https://www.parse.com/apps/yourapp",
"javascriptKey": "",
"masterKey": "",
"requireRevocableSessions": true,
"restKey": "",
"revokeSessionOnPasswordChange": true,
"webhookKey": "",
"windowsKey": ""
},
...
]
}
</code></pre>
To fetch the keys and settings of a single app, run:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Email: " \
-H "X-Parse-Password: " \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
https://api.parse.com/1/apps/${APPLICATION_ID}
</code></pre>
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/apps/${APPLICATION_ID}', '', {
"X-Parse-Email": "",
"X-Parse-Password": "",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
</code></pre>
## Creating apps
By sending a POST request to the `/1/apps` endpoint you can create a new app,
that is owned by your account. The new app is initialized with a set of keys,
as well as some optional settings, which are all returned to you along with
the app's URL in your parse.com dashboard. The only required field for creating
an app is the app name.
The default values for the allowable settings are:
| App Setting | Default Value |
|---------------------------------|---------------|
| `clientClassCreationEnabled` | true |
| `clientPushEnabled` | false |
| `requireRevocableSessions` | true |
| `revokeSessionOnPasswordChange` | true |
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Email: " \
-H "X-Parse-Password: " \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"appName":"my new app","clientClassCreationEnabled":false}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/apps
</code></pre>
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/apps', json.dumps(
"appName":"my new app","clientClassCreationEnabled":false
}), {
"X-Parse-Email": "",
"X-Parse-Password": "",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
</code></pre>
## Updating apps
You can change your app's name, as well as change your app's settings, by sending a PUT request to `/1/apps`:
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Email: ${PARSE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL}" \
-H "X-Parse-Password: " \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"appName":"updated app name","clientClassCreationEnabled":true}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/apps/${APPLICATION_ID}
</code></pre>
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('PUT', '/1/apps/${APPLICATION_ID}', json.dumps(
"appName":"updated app name","clientClassCreationEnabled":true
}), {
"X-Parse-Email": "",
"X-Parse-Password": "",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
</code></pre>
You can create, update, list or delete all your cloud code webhooks via the Hooks API, in addition to being able to do so through the parse website.
Hooks API requires the users to provide Application-Id
and Master-Key
in the request headers.
There are two kinds of cloud code webhooks: function webhooks and trigger webhooks.
Cloud functions are functions that run in the cloud and allow you to build functions common to all platforms. For more details please read cloud code functions.
Cloud triggers are invoked whenever you save or delete a parse object. Triggers are commonly used to validate your objects before saving them. For more details please read cloud code triggers.
Lets establish some basic terminology used throughout the rest of this section.
Cloud Code Webhooks
consist of function webhooks
and trigger webhooks
. This is code that runs on your servers.
Cloud Code
has cloud code functions
and cloud code triggers
. This is code that runs on the Parse servers.
These are the generic concepts encapsulating both use cases:
Cloud Function
is either a cloud code function
or a function webhook
.
Cloud Trigger
is either a cloud code trigger
or a trigger webhook
.
A function webhook has a name and a url. Hence, its JSON response looks like:
{"functionName": "foo", "url": "https://api.example.com/foo"}
JSON reponse for a cloud code function just contains the function name.
{"functionName": "foo"}
A trigger webhook belongs to a class, has a trigger name and a url. Hence, its JSON response looks like:
{"className": "score", "triggerName": "beforeSave", "url": "https://api.example.com/score/beforeSave"}
JSON response for a cloud code trigger contains the class name and the trigger name.
{"className": "score", "triggerName": "beforeSave"}
Note that trigger name can only be one of beforeSave
, afterSave
, beforeDelete
and afterDelete
.
To fetch the list of all cloud functions you deployed or created, use:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
https://api.parse.com/1/hooks/functions
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/hooks/functions', '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-Master-Key": "${MASTER_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The output is a json object with one key: “results” whose value is a list of cloud functions.
{
"results": [
{ "functionName": "sendMessage", "url": "https://api.example.com/sendMessage" },
{ "functionName": "sendMessage" },
{ "functionName": "foo", "url": "https://api.example.com/foo" },
{ "functionName": "bar" }
]
}
To fetch a single cloud function with a given name, use:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
https://api.parse.com/1/hooks/functions/sendMessage
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/hooks/functions/sendMessage', '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-Master-Key": "${MASTER_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The output is a json object with one key: “results” whose value is a list of cloud functions with the given name.
{
"results": [
{ "functionName": "sendMessage", "url": "https://api.example.com/sendMessage" },
{ "functionName": "sendMessage" }
]
}
To fetch the list of all cloud triggers you deployed or created, use:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
https://api.parse.com/1/hooks/triggers
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/hooks/triggers', '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-Master-Key": "${MASTER_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The output is a json object with one key: “results” whose value is a list of cloud triggers.
{
"results": [
{ "className": "Scores", "triggerName": "beforeSave" },
{
"className": "Scores",
"triggerName": "beforeSave",
"url": "https://api.example.com/Scores/beforeSave"
},
{
"className": "Game",
"triggerName": "afterSave",
"url": "https://api.example.com/Game/afterSave"
},
{ "className": "Tournament", "triggerName": "beforeDelete" }
]
}
To fetch a single cloud trigger, use:
curl -X GET \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
https://api.parse.com/1/hooks/triggers/Scores/beforeSave
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('GET', '/1/hooks/triggers/Scores/beforeSave', '', {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-Master-Key": "${MASTER_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The path looks like /hooks/triggers/className/triggerName
where triggerName
can be one of beforeSave
, afterSave
, beforeDelete
, afterDelete
.
The output may look like this:
{
"results": [
{ "className": "Scores", "triggerName": "beforeSave" },
{
"className": "Scores",
"triggerName": "beforeSave",
"url": "https://api.example.com/Scores/beforeSave"
}
]
}
The output is a json object with one key: “results” whose value is a list of all cloud triggers with given name for a given class.
Note that POST, PUT and DELETE only work on function or trigger webhooks.
To create cloud code functions or cloud code triggers you can modify your cloud code javascript files
and perform a parse deploy
the usual way.
To create a new function webhook post to /1/hooks/functions
with payload in the format
{"functionName" : x, "url" : y}
Post example,
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"functionName":"baz","url":"https://api.example.com/baz"}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/hooks/functions
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/hooks/functions', json.dumps(
{"functionName":"baz","url":"https://api.example.com/baz"}
), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-Master-Key": "${MASTER_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The output may look like this:
{"functionName": "baz", "url": "https://api.example.com/baz"}'
It returns the function name and url of the created webhook.
If you try to create a function webhook and a cloud code function with the same name already exists, upon successful creation the response json has an additional warning
field informing about the name conflict. Note that, function webhooks takes precedence over cloud code functions.
For example,
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"functionName":"bar","url":"https://api.example.com/bar"}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/hooks/functions
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/hooks/functions', json.dumps(
{"functionName":"bar","url":"https://api.example.com/bar"}
), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-Master-Key": "${MASTER_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The output may look like this:
{
"functionName": "bar",
"url": "https://api.example.com/bar",
"warning": "a cloudcode function with name: bar already exists"
}
To create a new function webhook post to /1/hooks/triggers
with payload in the format
{"className": x, "triggerName": y, "url": z}
{"className": x, "triggerName": y, "url": z}
Post example,
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"className": "Game", "triggerName": "beforeSave", "url": "https://api.example.com/Game/beforeSave"}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/hooks/triggers
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/hooks/triggers', json.dumps(
{"className": "Game", "triggerName": "beforeSave", "url": "https://api.example.com/Game/beforeSave"}
), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-Master-Key": "${MASTER_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The output may look like this:
{
"className": "Game",
"triggerName": "beforeSave",
"url": "https://api.example.com/Game/beforeSave"
}
It returns the class name, trigger name and url of the created trigger webhook.
If you try to create a trigger webhook and a cloud code trigger with the same name already exists, upon successful creation the response json has an additional warning
field informing about the name conflict. Note that, trigger webhooks takes precedence over cloud code triggers.
For example,
curl -X POST \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"className": "Tournament", "triggerName": "beforeDelete", "url": "https://api.example.com/Scores/beforeDelete"}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/hooks/triggers
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('POST', '/1/hooks/triggers', json.dumps(
{"className": "Tournament", "triggerName": "beforeDelete", "url": "https://api.example.com/Scores/beforeDelete"}
), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-Master-Key": "${MASTER_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The output may look like this:
{
"className": "Tournament",
"triggerName": "beforeDelete",
"url": "https://api.example.com/Tournament/beforeDelete",
"warning": "beforeDelete trigger already defined for class Tournament in cloud code"
}
To edit the url of a function webhook that was already created use the put method.
Put example,
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url":"https://api.example.com/_baz"}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/hooks/functions/baz
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('PUT', '/1/hooks/functions/baz', json.dumps(
{"url":"https://api.example.com/_baz"}
), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-Master-Key": "${MASTER_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The output may look like this:
{"functionName": "baz", "url": "https://api.example.com/baz"}'
It returns the function name and url of the modified webhook.
If you try to update a function webhook and a cloud code function with the same name already exists, upon successful update the response json has an additional warning
field informing about the name conflict. Note that, function webhooks takes precedence over cloud code functions.
For example,
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url":"https://api.example.com/_bar"}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/hooks/functions/bar
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('PUT', '/1/hooks/functions/bar', json.dumps(
{"url":"https://api.example.com/_bar"}
), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-Master-Key": "${MASTER_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The output may look like this:
{
"functionName": "bar",
"url": "https://api.example.com/_bar",
"warning": "a cloudcode function with name: bar already exists"
}
To edit the url of a trigger webhook that was already crated use the put method.
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url": "https://api.example.com/Game/_beforeSave"}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/hooks/triggers/Game/beforeSave
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('PUT', '/1/hooks/triggers/Game/beforeSave', json.dumps(
{"url": "https://api.example.com/Game/_beforeSave"}
), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-Master-Key": "${MASTER_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The output may look like this:
{
"className": "Game",
"triggerName": "beforeSave",
"url": "https://api.example.com/Game/_beforeSave"
}
It returns the class name, trigger name and url of the modified trigger webhook.
If you try to update a trigger webhook and a cloud code trigger with the same name already exists, upon successful update the response json has an additional warning
field informing about the name conflict. Note that, trigger webhooks takes precedence over cloud code triggers.
For example,
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url": "https://api.example.com/Scores/beforeDelete"}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/hooks/triggers/Tournament/beforeDelete
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('PUT', '/1/hooks/triggers/Tournament/beforeDelete', json.dumps(
{"url": "https://api.example.com/Scores/beforeDelete"}
), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-Master-Key": "${MASTER_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The output may look like this:
{
"className": "Tournament",
"triggerName": "beforeDelete",
"url": "https://api.example.com/Tournament/beforeDelete",
"warning": "beforeDelete trigger already defined for class Tournament in cloud code"
}
To delete a function webhook use the put method.
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"__op": "Delete"}' \
https://api.parse.com/1/hooks/functions/foo
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('PUT', '/1/hooks/functions/foo', json.dumps(
{"__op": "Delete"}
), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-Master-Key": "${MASTER_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The output may look like this:
{}
If a cloud code function with the same name already exists then it is returned as the result. Since the overriding webhook was just deleted, this cloud code function will be run the next time sendMessage is called.
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "__op": "Delete" }' \
https://api.parse.com/1/hooks/functions/sendMessage
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('PUT', '/1/hooks/functions/sendMessage', json.dumps(
{"__op": "Delete"}
), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-Master-Key": "${MASTER_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The output may look like this:
{ "functionName": "sendMessage" }
To delete a trigger webhook use the put method.
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "__op": "Delete" }' \
https://api.parse.com/1/hooks/triggers/Game/beforeSave
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('PUT', '/1/hooks/triggers/Game/beforeSave', json.dumps(
{"__op": "Delete"}
), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-Master-Key": "${MASTER_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The output may look like this:
{}
If a cloud code trigger with the same name already exists then the it is returned as the result. Since the overriding webhook was just deleted, this cloud code trigger will be run the next time a Tournament object is saved.
curl -X PUT \
-H "X-Parse-Application-Id: ${APPLICATION_ID}" \
-H "X-Parse-Master-Key: ${MASTER_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "__op": "Delete" }' \
https://api.parse.com/1/hooks/triggers/Tournament/beforeDelete
import json,httplib
connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.parse.com', 443)
connection.connect()
connection.request('PUT', '/1/hooks/triggers/Tournament/beforeDelete', json.dumps(
{"__op": "Delete"}
), {
"X-Parse-Application-Id": "${APPLICATION_ID}",
"X-Parse-Master-Key": "${MASTER_KEY}",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
})
result = json.loads(connection.getresponse().read())
print result
The output may look like this:
{
"className": "Tournament",
"triggerName": "beforeDelete"
}
The following is a list of all the error codes that can be returned by the Parse API. You may also refer to RFC2616 for a list of http error codes. Make sure to check the error message for more details.
Name | Code | Description |
---|---|---|
UserInvalidLoginParams |
101 | Invalid login parameters. Check error message for more details. |
ObjectNotFound |
101 | The specified object or session doesn’t exist or could not be found. Can also indicate that you do not have the necessary permissions to read or write this object. Check error message for more details. |
InvalidQuery |
102 | There is a problem with the parameters used to construct this query. This could be an invalid field name or an invalid field type for a specific constraint. Check error message for more details. |
InvalidClassName |
103 | Missing or invalid classname. Classnames are case-sensitive. They must start with a letter, and a-zA-Z0-9_ are the only valid characters. |
MissingObjectId |
104 | An unspecified object id. |
InvalidFieldName |
105 | An invalid field name. Keys are case-sensitive. They must start with a letter, and a-zA-Z0-9_ are the only valid characters. Some field names may be reserved. Check error message for more details. |
InvalidPointer |
106 | A malformed pointer was used. You would typically only see this if you have modified a client SDK. |
InvalidJSON |
107 | Badly formed JSON was received upstream. This either indicates you have done something unusual with modifying how things encode to JSON, or the network is failing badly. Can also indicate an invalid utf-8 string or use of multiple form encoded values. Check error message for more details. |
CommandUnavailable |
108 | The feature you tried to access is only available internally for testing purposes. |
NotInitialized |
109 | You must call Parse.initialize before using the Parse library. Check the Quick Start guide for your platform. |
ObjectTooLarge |
116 | The object is too large. Parse Objectss have a max size of 128 kilobytes. |
ExceededConfigParamsError |
116 | You have reached the limit of 100 config parameters. |
InvalidLimitError |
117 | An invalid value was set for the limit. Check error message for more details. |
InvalidSkipError |
118 | An invalid value was set for skip. Check error message for more details. |
OperationForbidden |
119 | The operation isn’t allowed for clients due to class-level permissions. Check error message for more details. |
CacheMiss |
120 | The result was not found in the cache. |
InvalidNestedKey |
121 | An invalid key was used in a nested JSONObject. Check error message for more details. |
InvalidACL |
123 | An invalid ACL was provided. |
InvalidEmailAddress |
125 | The email address was invalid. |
DuplicateValue |
137 | Unique field was given a value that is already taken. |
InvalidRoleName |
139 | Role’s name is invalid. |
ReservedValue |
139 | Field value is reserved. |
ExceededCollectionQuota |
140 | You have reached the quota on the number of classes in your app. Please delete some classes if you need to add a new class. |
ScriptFailed |
141 | Cloud Code script failed. Usually points to a JavaScript error. Check error message for more details. |
FunctionNotFound |
141 | Cloud function not found. Check that the specified Cloud function is present in your Cloud Code script and has been deployed. |
JobNotFound |
141 | Background job not found. Check that the specified job is present in your Cloud Code script and has been deployed. |
SuccessErrorNotCalled |
141 | success/error was not called. A cloud function will return once response.success() or response.error() is called. A background job will similarly finish execution once status.success() or status.error() is called. If a function or job never reaches either of the success/error methods, this error will be returned. This may happen when a function does not handle an error response correctly, preventing code execution from reaching the success() method call. |
MultupleSuccessErrorCalls |
141 | Can’t call success/error multiple times. A cloud function will return once response.success() or response.error() is called. A background job will similarly finish execution once status.success() or status.error() is called. If a function or job calls success() and/or error() more than once in a single execution path, this error will be returned. |
ValidationFailed |
142 | Cloud Code validation failed. |
WebhookError |
143 | Webhook error. |
InvalidImageData |
150 | Invalid image data. |
UnsavedFileError |
151 | An unsaved file. |
InvalidPushTimeError |
152 | An invalid push time was specified. |
HostingError |
158 | Hosting error. |
InvalidEventName |
160 | The provided analytics event name is invalid. |
ClassNotEmpty |
255 | Class is not empty and cannot be dropped. |
AppNameInvalid |
256 | App name is invalid. |
MissingAPIKeyError |
902 | The request is missing an API key. |
InvalidAPIKeyError |
903 | The request is using an invalid API key. |
Name | Code | Description |
---|---|---|
IncorrectType |
111 | A field was set to an inconsistent type. Check error message for more details. |
InvalidChannelName |
112 | Invalid channel name. A channel name is either an empty string (the broadcast channel) or contains only a-zA-Z0-9_ characters and starts with a letter. |
InvalidSubscriptionType |
113 | Bad subscription type. Check error message for more details. |
InvalidDeviceToken |
114 | The provided device token is invalid. |
PushMisconfigured |
115 | Push is misconfigured in your app. Check error message for more details. |
PushWhereAndChannels |
115 | Can’t set channels for a query-targeted push. You can fix this by moving the channels into your push query constraints. |
PushWhereAndType |
115 | Can’t set device type for a query-targeted push. You can fix this by incorporating the device type constraints into your push query. |
PushMissingData |
115 | Push is missing a ‘data’ field. |
PushMissingChannels |
115 | Non-query push is missing a ‘channels’ field. Fix by passing a ‘channels’ or ‘query’ field. |
ClientPushDisabled |
115 | Client-initiated push is not enabled. Check your Parse app’s push notification settings. |
RestPushDisabled |
115 | REST-initiated push is not enabled. Check your Parse app’s push notification settings. |
ClientPushWithURI |
115 | Client-initiated push cannot use the “uri” option. |
PushQueryOrPayloadTooLarge |
115 | Your push query or data payload is too large. Check error message for more details. |
InvalidExpirationError |
138 | Invalid expiration value. |
MissingPushIdError |
156 | A push id is missing. Deprecated. |
MissingDeviceTypeError |
157 | The device type field is missing. Deprecated. |
Name | Code | Description |
---|---|---|
InvalidFileName |
122 | An invalid filename was used for Parse File. A valid file name contains only a-zA-Z0-9_. characters and is between 1 and 128 characters. |
MissingContentType |
126 | Missing content type. |
MissingContentLength |
127 | Missing content length. |
InvalidContentLength |
128 | Invalid content length. |
FileTooLarge |
129 | File size exceeds maximum allowed. |
FileSaveError |
130 | Error saving a file. |
FileDeleteError |
131 | File could not be deleted. |
Name | Code | Description |
---|---|---|
InvalidInstallationIdError |
132 | Invalid installation id. |
InvalidDeviceTypeError |
133 | Invalid device type. |
InvalidChannelsArrayError |
134 | Invalid channels array value. |
MissingRequiredFieldError |
135 | Required field is missing. |
ChangedImmutableFieldError |
136 | An immutable field was changed. |
Name | Code | Description |
---|---|---|
ReceiptMissing |
143 | Product purchase receipt is missing. |
InvalidPurchaseReceipt |
144 | Product purchase receipt is invalid. |
PaymentDisabled |
145 | Payment is disabled on this device. |
InvalidProductIdentifier |
146 | The product identifier is invalid. |
ProductNotFoundInAppStore |
147 | The product is not found in the App Store. |
InvalidServerResponse |
148 | The Apple server response is not valid. |
ProductDownloadFilesystemError |
149 | The product fails to download due to file system error. |
Name | Code | Description |
---|---|---|
UsernameMissing |
200 | The username is missing or empty. |
PasswordMissing |
201 | The password is missing or empty. |
UsernameTaken |
202 | The username has already been taken. |
UserEmailTaken |
203 | Email has already been used. |
UserEmailMissing |
204 | The email is missing, and must be specified. |
UserWithEmailNotFound |
205 | A user with the specified email was not found. |
SessionMissing |
206 | A user object without a valid session could not be altered. |
MustCreateUserThroughSignup |
207 | A user can only be created through signup. |
AccountAlreadyLinked |
208 | An account being linked is already linked to another user. |
InvalidSessionToken |
209 | The device’s session token is no longer valid. The application should ask the user to log in again. |
Name | Code | Description |
---|---|---|
LinkedIdMissing |
250 | A user cannot be linked to an account because that account’s id could not be found. |
InvalidLinkedSession |
251 | A user with a linked (e.g. Facebook or Twitter) account has an invalid session. Check error message for more details. |
InvalidGeneralAuthData |
251 | Invalid auth data value used. |
BadAnonymousID |
251 | Anonymous id is not a valid lowercase UUID. |
FacebookBadToken |
251 | The supplied Facebook session token is expired or invalid. |
FacebookBadID |
251 | A user with a linked Facebook account has an invalid session. |
FacebookWrongAppID |
251 | Unacceptable Facebook application id. |
TwitterVerificationFailed |
251 | Twitter credential verification failed. |
TwitterWrongID |
251 | Submitted Twitter id does not match the id associated with the submitted access token. |
TwitterWrongScreenName |
251 | Submitted Twitter handle does not match the handle associated with the submitted access token. |
TwitterConnectFailure |
251 | Twitter credentials could not be verified due to problems accessing the Twitter API. |
UnsupportedService |
252 | A service being linked (e.g. Facebook or Twitter) is unsupported. Check error message for more details. |
UsernameSigninDisabled |
252 | Authentication by username and password is not supported for this application. Check your Parse app’s authentication settings. |
AnonymousSigninDisabled |
252 | Anonymous users are not supported for this application. Check your Parse app’s authentication settings. |
FacebookSigninDisabled |
252 | Authentication by Facebook is not supported for this application. Check your Parse app’s authentication settings. |
TwitterSigninDisabled |
252 | Authentication by Twitter is not supported for this application. Check your Parse app’s authentication settings. |
InvalidAuthDataError |
253 | An invalid authData value was passed. Check error message for more details. |
LinkingNotSupportedError |
999 | Linking to an external account not supported yet with signup_or_login. Use update instead. |
Name | Code | Description |
---|---|---|
ConnectionFailed |
100 | The connection to the Parse servers failed. |
AggregateError |
600 | There were multiple errors. Aggregate errors have an “errors” property, which is an array of error objects with more detail about each error that occurred. |
FileReadError |
601 | Unable to read input for a Parse File on the client. |
XDomainRequest |
602 | A real error code is unavailable because we had to use an XDomainRequest object to allow CORS requests in Internet Explorer, which strips the body from HTTP responses that have a non-2XX status code. |
Name | Code | Description |
---|---|---|
RequestTimeout |
124 | The request was slow and timed out. Typically this indicates that the request is too expensive to run. You may see this when a Cloud function did not finish before timing out, or when a Parse.Cloud.httpRequest connection times out. |
InefficientQueryError |
154 | An inefficient query was rejected by the server. Refer to the Performance Guide and slow query log. |
RequestLimitExceeded |
155 | This application has exceeded its request limit (legacy Parse.com apps only). |
TemporaryRejectionError |
159 | An application’s requests are temporary rejected by the server (legacy Parse.com apps only). |
DatabaseNotMigratedError |
428 | You should migrate your database as soon as possible (legacy Parse.com apps only). |
Name | Code | Description |
---|---|---|
OtherCause |
-1 | An unknown error or an error unrelated to Parse occurred. |
InternalServerError |
1 | Internal server error. No information available. |
ServiceUnavailable |
2 | The service is currently unavailable. |
ClientDisconnected |
4 | Connection failure. |