Event Categories

Hierarchical taxonomy used to categorize events.

Get a collection

Endpoint
GET /event_categories HTTP/1.1

Query string parameters

All query string parameters are optional.

callback string

Wraps the response in a callback function of the given name. Use this parameter to facilitate JSONP requests.

excluded_ids comma-separated list of IDs

Returns event categories, except those with the given IDs.

ids comma-separated list of IDs

Return event categories with the given IDs.

order_by comma-separated list

Sort event categories by one or more ORDER_BY and ORDER parameter pairs. Options:

  • ORDER:
    • asc: order from lowest to highest values
    • desc: order from highest to lowest values
  • ORDER_BY:
    • id: order by event category ID
    • list: order by the order of IDs given in the ids parameter
    • name: order by term name
    • weight: order by term weight

Format: ORDER_BY|ORDER[,ORDER_BY|ORDER,...]

Default value: name|asc

page integer

Return event categories from a specific page of a collection.

Default value: 1

per_page integer

Number of event categories to return per page of a collection. Maximum: 100

Default value: 5

slug comma-separated list

Return event categories matching the given slug(s).

Response

In the example response, embedded event categories are truncated for illustrative purposes. In the real-world version of the response, "...event category object..." is an entire event category resource.

The event category collection
{
   "_embedded": {
      "event_categories": [
         "...event category object...",
         "...event category object...",
         "...event category object...",
         "...event category object...",
         "...event category object..."
      ]
   },
   "_links": {
      "find": {
         "href": "/event_categories/{?id}",
         "templated": true
      },
      "next": {
         "href": "/event_categories?page=3"
      },
      "prev": {
         "href": "/event_categories?page=1"
      },
      "self": {
         "href": "/event_categories?page=2"
      }
   },
   "page": 1,
   "per_page": 5,
   "return_count": 5,
   "total_available": 100
}

Attributes

_embedded hash

Embedded resources.

_embedded.event_categories[] array

An array of event category objects.

page integer

The page number of the returned collection.

per_page integer

The number of event categories requested per page.

return_count integer

Number of event categories returned.

total_available integer

Total number of event categories available in the collection.

Get one

Endpoint
GET /event_categories/:id HTTP/1.1

Endpoint parameters

id integer required

The unique identifier of the event category.

Response

GET /event_categories/2471
{
   "_embedded": {},
   "_links": {
      "self": {
         "href": "/event_categories/2471"
      }
   },
   "id": 2471,
   "name": "Music",
   "parent": {
      "id": 2450,
      "name": "Arts+Culture",
      "slug": "arts-culture"
   },
   "slug": "music",
   "type": "event_category",
   "url": "https://hub.jhu.edu/events/?categories=music"
}

Attributes

_embedded hash

Embedded resources.

id integer

Unique identifier of the event category.

name string

The nice name of the event category.

parent hash|null

The parent event category, if there is one.

parent.id integer

Unique identifier of the parent event category.

parent.name string

The nice name of the parent event category.

parent.slug string

The name of the parent event category used in URLs.

slug string

The name of the event category used in URLs.

type string

Type of resource.

url hash

URLs that point to collections of content in this event category on the Hub website.

Get a subcollection

A subcollection is a collection of objects contained within an event category.

Endpoint
GET /event_categories/:id/:subcollection HTTP/1.1

Endpoint parameters

id integer
The unique identifier of the event category.
subcollection string

The name of the subcollection to retrieve. Options: events

Query string parameters

To filter the subcollection, see the list of available parameters associated with the chosen subcollection:

Response

See the response associated with the chosen subcollection: