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Start a connect request

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POST
/v1/connections/requests/{requestId}/start
curl --request POST \
  --url https://example.com/v1/connections/requests/2489E9AD-2EE2-8E00-8EC9-32D5F69181C0/start \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{ "installationId": "example", "newInstallation": true }'

Makes a fresh sign-in state, good for 10 minutes, and returns the app’s consent page to send the person to. Records who started it: only they may finish it. A repeat starts again and never gets the first answer back: with an Idempotency-Key, a retry gets 409 idempotency-key-replay-withheld. A GitHub App’s goes to the app’s install page while the app has no installation, or with newInstallation; otherwise to GitHub’s authorization, and the finish attaches the installation picked with installationId, one of the request’s installations.

Authorizations

Section titled “Authorizations”

Parameters

Section titled “Parameters”

Path Parameters

Section titled “Path Parameters”
requestId
required
string format: uuid

The connect request id (a UUID).

Header Parameters

Section titled “Header Parameters”
Idempotency-Key
string
>= 1 characters

Caller-supplied idempotency key, scoped to the caller: the same key from someone else in the tenant is their own request (from 0.1.5). Retries with the same key return the original response byte-identical (per docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md §3.1). A retry sent while the first request still runs is answered 409 idempotency-key-in-flight with Retry-After, on a runtime whose store holds keys (from 0.1.5); retry after it, and you get the first request’s answer. An answer that carries a secret (a new API key or public run token, a session token, a generated signing secret) isn’t kept: a retry gets 409 idempotency-key-replay-withheld, with the first request’s status and when it succeeded (from 0.1.5). A request whose key store can’t be read before it runs is answered 503 idempotency-store-unavailable with Retry-After: nothing ran, so retry with the same key (from 0.3.0).

Request Body

Section titled “Request Body”
Media typeapplication/json

Optional, and a GitHub App’s only: the installation to attach, or a new one. Leave it out for any other app.

object
installationId

The installation to attach: one of the request’s installations.

string
>= 1 characters <= 64 characters
newInstallation

true: go to the app’s install page to install it on another account, even when it has installations. Not with installationId.

boolean
Examplegenerated
{
  "installationId": "example",
  "newInstallation": true
}

Responses

Section titled “Responses”

200

Section titled “200”

Where to send the person.

Media typeapplication/json
object
authorizeUrl
required

The app’s consent page, with a fresh sign-in state good for 10 minutes. Send the person there.

string format: uri
Examplegenerated
{
  "authorizeUrl": "https://example.com"
}

400

Section titled “400”

requestId is not a UUID; a malformed body or unknown field; both installationId and newInstallation; or either on a request whose app is not a GitHub App (bad-input, details.field).

Media typeapplication/json
object
error
required
object
code
required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md §4.3).

string
message
required
string
details

Optional, kind-specific.

object
key
additional properties
any
requestId
required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via X-Request-Id header.

string
Examplegenerated
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}

401

Section titled “401”

Missing / malformed / expired / revoked bearer token.

Media typeapplication/json
object
error
required
object
code
required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md §4.3).

string
message
required
string
details

Optional, kind-specific.

object
key
additional properties
any
requestId
required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via X-Request-Id header.

string
Examplegenerated
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}

404

Section titled “404”

No request with that id, or not the caller’s (connection-request-not-found).

Media typeapplication/json
object
error
required
object
code
required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md §4.3).

string
message
required
string
details

Optional, kind-specific.

object
key
additional properties
any
requestId
required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via X-Request-Id header.

string
Examplegenerated
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}

409

Section titled “409”

Idempotency-Key was reused with a different body, or a retry of one that succeeded (idempotency-key-replay-withheld); or the request was finished already (connection-request-used).

Media typeapplication/json
object
error
required
object
code
required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md §4.3).

string
message
required
string
details

Optional, kind-specific.

object
key
additional properties
any
requestId
required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via X-Request-Id header.

string
Examplegenerated
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}

410

Section titled “410”

The request expired (connection-request-expired).

Media typeapplication/json
object
error
required
object
code
required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md §4.3).

string
message
required
string
details

Optional, kind-specific.

object
key
additional properties
any
requestId
required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via X-Request-Id header.

string
Examplegenerated
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}

413

Section titled “413”

The request body is over the API’s limit (request-too-large; details.maxBytes says how much).

Media typeapplication/json
object
error
required
object
code
required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md §4.3).

string
message
required
string
details

Optional, kind-specific.

object
key
additional properties
any
requestId
required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via X-Request-Id header.

string
Examplegenerated
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}

500

Section titled “500”

Server error (unmapped domain code or framework crash).

Media typeapplication/json
object
error
required
object
code
required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md §4.3).

string
message
required
string
details

Optional, kind-specific.

object
key
additional properties
any
requestId
required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via X-Request-Id header.

string
Examplegenerated
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}

503

Section titled “503”

The Idempotency-Key store couldn’t be read before the request ran (idempotency-store-unavailable), so nothing was changed; Retry-After (whole seconds) says when to try again with the same key.

Media typeapplication/json
object
error
required
object
code
required

Stable machine-readable discriminant. Values match domain error codes (see docs/API-ROUTE-CONVENTIONS.md §4.3).

string
message
required
string
details

Optional, kind-specific.

object
key
additional properties
any
requestId
required

Server-assigned request id; also echoed via X-Request-Id header.

string
Examplegenerated
{
  "error": {
    "code": "example",
    "message": "example",
    "details": {},
    "requestId": "example"
  }
}

See also