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1. Overview

This API has been available since 1.7.0

This API is in technical preview and is subject to change.

A Family allows you to define relationships between one or more Users. A adult User may belong to a single Family, a teen or child may belong to one or more families.

The following APIs are provided to manage Families and Family memberships.

Add a User to a Family
Retrieve a Family
Update a Family
Remove a User from a Family

2. Add a User to a Family

This API is used to add a User to a Family. You cannot directly create a family, instead a family is implicitly created when the first User is added.

2.1. Request

Add a User to a Family with a randomly generated Id

URI

POST /api/family

Add a User to a Family with the provided unique Id

URI

POST /api/family/{familyId}

Table 1. Request Parameters
familyId [UUID] Optional defaults to secure random UUID	The Id to use for the new Family. If not specified a secure random UUID will be generated.

Table 2. Request Body
familyMember.userId [UUID] Required	The unique userId of the User to add to a family.
familyMember.owner [Boolean] Optional defaults to `false`	Set to `true` to indicate a family owner. This value will be ignored if the user role is `Teen` or `Child`.
familyMember.role [String] Required	The role of the user in the family. When creating a family the first user must be an `Adult`, this value must be set to `Adult`.

Example Request JSON

{
  "familyMember" : {
    "userId": "b3360a2d-e81d-4314-b9f1-244a916ca52f",
    "owner": true,
    "role": "Adult"
  }
}

2.2. Response

The response for this API contains the Family that was created.

Table 3. Response Codes
Code	Description
200	The request was successful. The response will contain a JSON body.
400	The request was invalid and/or malformed. The response will contain an Errors JSON Object with the specific errors.
401	You did not supply a valid Authorization header. The header was omitted or your API key was not valid. The response will be empty. See Authentication.
500	There was an internal error. A stack trace is provided and logged in the FusionAuth log files. The response will be empty.
503	The search index is not available or encountered an exception so the request cannot be completed. The response will contain a JSON body.

Table 4. Response Body when retrieving a Family by Id
family.id [UUID]	The unique Id of the family.
family.members [Array<Object>]	The members of this family.
family.members`[x]`.insertInstant [Long]	The instant when the user was added to the family.
family.members`[x]`.owner [Boolean]	True if this user is the owner of the family, the first Adult user in the family will automatically be set as the owner. A teen or child cannot be the family owner.
family.members`[x]`.role [String]	The role of the family member. The possible values are: `Adult` `Child` `Teen`
family.members`[x]`.userId [UUID]	The unique user Id of the family member.

Example Response JSON

{
  "family": {
    "id": "a815b480-d52d-4755-96ac-749c067925d7",
    "members": [
      {
        "insertInstant": 1562010348111,
        "owner": true,
        "role": "Adult",
        "userId": "b3360a2d-e81d-4314-b9f1-244a916ca52f"
      }
    ]
  }
}

3. Retrieve a Family

This API is used to retrieve a Family by a User Id or by Family Id.

3.1. Request

Retrieve a Family by Id

URI

POST /api/family/{familyId}

Table 5. Request Parameters
familyId [UUID] Required	The unique Id of the Family.

3.2. Request

Retrieve all of a User’s families by User Id

URI

POST /api/family?userId={userId}

Table 6. Request Parameters
userId [UUID] Required	The unique Id of the User.

The response for this API contains the requested family or families.

Table 7. Response Codes
Code	Description
200	The request was successful. The response will contain a JSON body.
400	The request was invalid and/or malformed. The response will contain an Errors JSON Object with the specific errors.
401	You did not supply a valid Authorization header. The header was omitted or your API key was not valid. The response will be empty. See Authentication.
404	The object you requested doesn’t exist. The response will be empty.
500	There was an internal error. A stack trace is provided and logged in the FusionAuth log files. The response will be empty.
503	The search index is not available or encountered an exception so the request cannot be completed. The response will contain a JSON body.

Table 8. Response Body when retrieving a Family by Id
family.id [UUID]	The unique Id of the family.
family.members [Array<Object>]	The members of this family.
family.members`[x]`.insertInstant [Long]	The instant when the user was added to the family.
family.members`[x]`.owner [Boolean]	True if this user is the owner of the family, the first Adult user in the family will automatically be set as the owner. A teen or child cannot be the family owner.
family.members`[x]`.role [String]	The role of the family member. The possible values are: `Adult` `Child` `Teen`
family.members`[x]`.userId [UUID]	The unique user Id of the family member.

Example Response JSON

{
  "family": {
    "id": "a815b480-d52d-4755-96ac-749c067925d7",
    "members": [
      {
        "insertInstant": 1562010348111,
        "owner": true,
        "role": "Adult",
        "userId": "b3360a2d-e81d-4314-b9f1-244a916ca52f"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Table 9. Response Body when retrieving families by User Id
families [Array<Object>]	The list of Family objects.
families`[x]`.id [UUID]	The unique Id of the family.
families`[x]`.members [Array<Object>]	The members of this family.
families`[x]`.members`[x]`.insertInstant [Long]	The instant when the user was added to the family.
families`[x]`.members`[x]`.owner [Boolean]	True if this user is the owner of the family, the first Adult user in the family will automatically be set as the owner. A teen or child cannot be the family owner.
families`[x]`.members`[x]`.role [String]	The role of the family member. The possible values are: `Adult` `Child` `Teen`
families`[x]`.members`[x]`.userId [UUID]	The unique user Id of the family member.

Example Response JSON

{
  "families": [
    {
      "id": "a815b480-d52d-4755-96ac-749c067925d7",
      "members": [
        {
          "insertInstant": 1562010348111,
          "owner": true,
          "role": "Adult",
          "userId": "b3360a2d-e81d-4314-b9f1-244a916ca52f"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

4. Update a Family

This API is used to update an existing Family member. You may only update the User’s role or owner status.

4.1. Request

Update a Family member

URI

PUT /api/family/{familyId}

Table 10. Request Parameters
familyId [UUID] Required	The unique Id of the Family.

Table 11. Request Body
familyMember.userId [UUID] Required	The unique userId of the User to add to a family.
familyMember.owner [Boolean] Optional defaults to `false`	Set to `true` to indicate a family owner. This value will be ignored if the user role is `Teen` or `Child`.
familyMember.role [String] Required	The role of the user in the family. The possible values are: `Adult` `Child` `Teen`

Example Request JSON

{
  "familyMember" : {
    "userId": "b3360a2d-e81d-4314-b9f1-244a916ca52f",
    "owner": true,
    "role": "Adult"
  }
}

4.2. Response

The response for this API contains the Family that was updated.

Table 12. Response Codes
Code	Description
200	The request was successful. The response will contain a JSON body.
400	The request was invalid and/or malformed. The response will contain an Errors JSON Object with the specific errors.
401	You did not supply a valid Authorization header. The header was omitted or your API key was not valid. The response will be empty. See Authentication.
404	The object you are trying to updated doesn’t exist. The response will be empty.
500	There was an internal error. A stack trace is provided and logged in the FusionAuth log files. The response will be empty.
503	The search index is not available or encountered an exception so the request cannot be completed. The response will contain a JSON body.

Table 13. Response Body when retrieving a Family by Id
family.id [UUID]	The unique Id of the family.
family.members [Array<Object>]	The members of this family.
family.members`[x]`.insertInstant [Long]	The instant when the user was added to the family.
family.members`[x]`.owner [Boolean]	True if this user is the owner of the family, the first Adult user in the family will automatically be set as the owner. A teen or child cannot be the family owner.
family.members`[x]`.role [String]	The role of the family member. The possible values are: `Adult` `Child` `Teen`
family.members`[x]`.userId [UUID]	The unique user Id of the family member.

Example Response JSON

{
  "family": {
    "id": "a815b480-d52d-4755-96ac-749c067925d7",
    "members": [
      {
        "insertInstant": 1562010348111,
        "owner": true,
        "role": "Adult",
        "userId": "b3360a2d-e81d-4314-b9f1-244a916ca52f"
      }
    ]
  }
}

5. Remove a User from a Family

This API is used to remove a User from an existing Family.

5.1. Request

Remove a User from a Family

URI

DELETE /api/family/{familyId}/{userId}

Table 14. Request Parameters
familyId [UUID] Required	The unique Id of the Family.
userId [UUID] Required	The unique Id of the User.

5.2. Response

This API does not return a JSON response body.

Table 15. Response Codes
Code	Description
200	The request was successful. The response will be empty.
400	The request was invalid and/or malformed. The response will contain an Errors JSON Object with the specific errors.
401	You did not supply a valid Authorization header. The header was omitted or your API key was not valid. The response will be empty. See Authentication.
404	The object you are trying to delete doesn’t exist. The response will be empty.
500	There was an internal error. A stack trace is provided and logged in the FusionAuth log files. The response will be empty.
503	The search index is not available or encountered an exception so the request cannot be completed. The response will contain a JSON body.