Box Metadata Cascade Policies API
A metadata cascade policy describes how metadatainstances applied to a folder should be appliedto any item within that folder.
Box Metadata Cascade Policies API is one of 81 APIs that Box publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Metadata Cascade Policies. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.
This API exposes 5 operations across 3 paths, and defines 11 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.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Box Metadata Cascade Policies API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It supports OAuth 2.0 (OAuth2Security) using the authorizationCode flow, exposing 9 scopes.
Paths & Operations 5
Across 3 paths, the API surfaces 5 operations — 1 DELETE, 2 GET, 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
A metadata cascade policy describes how metadata instances applied to a folder should be applied to any item within that folder.
Schemas 11
The contract defines 11 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ClientError (7 properties), ClientError_2 (7 properties), MetadataCascadePolicy (6 properties), File--Base (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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