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Object type ID by alias

/structure/objecttypes/itemidbyalias

Resolves one or more object type aliases to their IDs.

POST

Input: string[]
Output: JSON object (see below)

This endpoint accepts an array of strings of object type aliases to resolve. A sample request body is shown below:

[
	"ObjectTypeAlias1",
	"ObjectTypeAlias2",
	"UnresolvedAlias"
]

This endpoint returns an object with a property for each provided alias with the value being the ID of the object type in the current vault that has that alias. A sample response body is shown below:

{
	"ObjectTypeAlias1" : 101,
	"ObjectTypeAlias2" : 102,
	"UnresolvedAlias" : -1
}

Aliases that could not be resolved will be returned as -1.

Sub-Resources

Item Description
Object type ID from alias (single) Allows resolution of a single object type ID from its alias