Box Legal Hold Policy Assignments API is one of 81 APIs that Box publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Legal Hold Policy Assignments. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.
This API exposes
6 operations
across 4 paths,
and defines 30 schemas.
It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.box.com/2.0.
6 operations4 paths30 schemas1 DELETE4 GET1 POST
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
1.0
Base URL
https://account.box.com/api/oauth2
Authentication
OAuth 2.0
Resource Areas
1
Authentication & Security 1
Box Legal Hold Policy Assignments API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It supports OAuth 2.0 (OAuth2Security) using the authorizationCode flow, exposing 9 scopes.
Paths & Operations 6
Across 4 paths, the API surfaces 6 operations — 1 DELETE, 4 GET, 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Legal Hold Policy Assignments 6
A Legal Hold Policy Assignment is a relation between a policy and custodian. In this case, as custodian can be a user, folder, file, or file version.
The contract defines 30 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ClientError_3 (7 properties), ClientError (7 properties), ClientError_2 (7 properties), FileVersionLegalHold (6 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Folder
object
A standard representation of a folder, as returned from any folder API endpoints by default
ClientError
object
A generic error
7 properties
FileVersion--Mini
object
A mini representation of a file version, used when nested within another resource.
FileVersion--Base
object
The bare basic representation of a file version, the minimal amount of fields returned when using the fields query parameter.
2 properties2 required
User--Base
object
A mini representation of a user, used when nested within another resource.
2 properties2 required
LegalHoldPolicy--Mini
object
A mini legal hold policy
2 properties2 required
User--Mini
object
A mini representation of a user, as can be returned when nested within other resources.
Items
object
A list of files, folders, and web links in their mini representation.
File
object
A standard representation of a file, as returned from any file API endpoints by default
File--Mini
objectnull
A mini representation of a file, used when nested under another resource.
Metadata--Base
object
The base representation of a metadata instance.
4 properties
LegalHoldPolicyAssignment--Base
object
Legal Hold Assignments are used to assign Legal Hold Policies to Users, Folders, Files, or File Versions. Creating a Legal Hold Assignment puts a hold on the F…
2 properties
FileOrFolderScope
object
A relation between a resource (file or folder) and the scopes for which the resource can be accessed
2 properties
File--Full
object
A full representation of a file, as can be returned from any file API endpoints by default
Folder--Mini
object
A mini representation of a file version, used when nested under another resource.
WebLink--Mini
object
Web links are objects that point to URLs. These objects are also known as bookmarks within the Box web application. Web link objects are treated similarly to f…
Metadata
object
An instance of a metadata template, which has been applied to a file or folder.
FileVersionLegalHold
object
File-Version-Legal-Hold is an entity representing all holds on a File Version.
6 properties
LegalHoldPolicyAssignment
object
Legal Hold Assignments are used to assign Legal Hold Policies to Users, Folders, Files, or File Versions. Creating a Legal Hold Assignment puts a hold on the F…
Folder--Base
object
The bare basic representation of a folder, the minimal amount of fields returned when using the fields query parameter.
3 properties2 required
WebLink--Base
object
Web links are objects that point to URLs. These objects are also known as bookmarks within the Box web application. Web link objects are treated similarly to f…
3 properties2 required
FileVersionLegalHolds
object
A list of file version legal holds.
WebLink
object
Web links are objects that point to URLs. These objects are also known as bookmarks within the Box web application. Web link objects are treated similarly to f…
LegalHoldPolicyAssignments
object
A list of legal hold policies assignments.
File--Base
objectnull
The bare basic representation of a file, the minimal amount of fields returned when using the fields query parameter.
3 properties2 required
ClientError_2
object
A generic error
7 properties
FileVersionLegalHolds_2
object
A list of file version legal holds.
ClientError_3
object
A generic error
7 properties
FileVersionLegalHolds_3
object
A list of file version legal holds.
LegalHoldPolicyAssignments_2
object
A list of legal hold policies assignments.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
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