Reference/API/Roles
GET
/v1/role

List roles

List out all roles. The roles are sorted by creation date, with the most recently-created roles coming first

/v1/role

The Authorization access token

Authorization

Authorization
Required
Bearer <token>

Most Braintrust endpoints are authenticated by providing your API key as a header Authorization: Bearer [api_key] to your HTTP request. You can create an API key in the Braintrust organization settings page.

In: header


Query Parameters

limitinteger

Limit the number of objects to return

Minimum: 0

starting_afterstring

Pagination cursor id.

For example, if the final item in the last page you fetched had an id of foo, pass starting_after=foo to fetch the next page. Note: you may only pass one of starting_after and ending_before

Format: "uuid"

ending_beforestring

Pagination cursor id.

For example, if the initial item in the last page you fetched had an id of foo, pass ending_before=foo to fetch the previous page. Note: you may only pass one of starting_after and ending_before

Format: "uuid"

idsAny properties in string, array<string>

Filter search results to a particular set of object IDs. To specify a list of IDs, include the query param multiple times

role_namestring

Name of the role to search for

org_namestring

Filter search results to within a particular organization

Status codeDescription
200Returns a list of role objects
400The request was unacceptable, often due to missing a required parameter
401No valid API key provided
403The API key doesn’t have permissions to perform the request
429Too many requests hit the API too quickly. We recommend an exponential backoff of your requests
500Something went wrong on Braintrust's end. (These are rare.)
curl -X GET "https://api.braintrust.dev/v1/role?limit=0&starting_after=497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08&ending_before=497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08&ids=497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08&role_name=string&org_name=string"

{
  "objects": [
    {
      "id": "497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08",
      "org_id": "a40f5d1f-d889-42e9-94ea-b9b33585fc6b",
      "user_id": "a169451c-8525-4352-b8ca-070dd449a1a5",
      "created": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
      "name": "string",
      "description": "string",
      "deleted_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
      "member_permissions": [
        {
          "permission": "create",
          "restrict_object_type": "organization"
        }
      ],
      "member_roles": [
        "497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

POST
/v1/role

Create role

Create a new role. If there is an existing role with the same name as the one specified in the request, will return the existing role unmodified

/v1/role

The Authorization access token

Authorization

Authorization
Required
Bearer <token>

Most Braintrust endpoints are authenticated by providing your API key as a header Authorization: Bearer [api_key] to your HTTP request. You can create an API key in the Braintrust organization settings page.

In: header


Request Body (Optional)

Any desired information about the new role object

name
Required
string

Name of the role

descriptionstring | null

Textual description of the role

member_permissionsarray<object> | null

(permission, restrict_object_type) tuples which belong to this role

member_rolesarray<string> | null

Ids of the roles this role inherits from

An inheriting role has all the permissions contained in its member roles, as well as all of their inherited permissions

org_namestring | null

For nearly all users, this parameter should be unnecessary. But in the rare case that your API key belongs to multiple organizations, you may specify the name of the organization the role belongs in.

Status codeDescription
200Returns the new role object
400The request was unacceptable, often due to missing a required parameter
401No valid API key provided
403The API key doesn’t have permissions to perform the request
429Too many requests hit the API too quickly. We recommend an exponential backoff of your requests
500Something went wrong on Braintrust's end. (These are rare.)
curl -X POST "https://api.braintrust.dev/v1/role" \
  -d '{
  "name": "string",
  "description": "string",
  "member_permissions": [
    {
      "permission": "create",
      "restrict_object_type": "organization"
    }
  ],
  "member_roles": [
    "497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08"
  ],
  "org_name": "string"
}'

A role is a collection of permissions which can be granted as part of an ACL

Roles can consist of individual permissions, as well as a set of roles they inherit from

{
  "id": "497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08",
  "org_id": "a40f5d1f-d889-42e9-94ea-b9b33585fc6b",
  "user_id": "a169451c-8525-4352-b8ca-070dd449a1a5",
  "created": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "name": "string",
  "description": "string",
  "deleted_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "member_permissions": [
    {
      "permission": "create",
      "restrict_object_type": "organization"
    }
  ],
  "member_roles": [
    "497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08"
  ]
}

PUT
/v1/role

Create or replace role

Create or replace role. If there is an existing role with the same name as the one specified in the request, will replace the existing role with the provided fields

/v1/role

The Authorization access token

Authorization

Authorization
Required
Bearer <token>

Most Braintrust endpoints are authenticated by providing your API key as a header Authorization: Bearer [api_key] to your HTTP request. You can create an API key in the Braintrust organization settings page.

In: header


Request Body (Optional)

Any desired information about the new role object

name
Required
string

Name of the role

descriptionstring | null

Textual description of the role

member_permissionsarray<object> | null

(permission, restrict_object_type) tuples which belong to this role

member_rolesarray<string> | null

Ids of the roles this role inherits from

An inheriting role has all the permissions contained in its member roles, as well as all of their inherited permissions

org_namestring | null

For nearly all users, this parameter should be unnecessary. But in the rare case that your API key belongs to multiple organizations, you may specify the name of the organization the role belongs in.

Status codeDescription
200Returns the new role object
400The request was unacceptable, often due to missing a required parameter
401No valid API key provided
403The API key doesn’t have permissions to perform the request
429Too many requests hit the API too quickly. We recommend an exponential backoff of your requests
500Something went wrong on Braintrust's end. (These are rare.)
curl -X PUT "https://api.braintrust.dev/v1/role" \
  -d '{
  "name": "string",
  "description": "string",
  "member_permissions": [
    {
      "permission": "create",
      "restrict_object_type": "organization"
    }
  ],
  "member_roles": [
    "497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08"
  ],
  "org_name": "string"
}'

A role is a collection of permissions which can be granted as part of an ACL

Roles can consist of individual permissions, as well as a set of roles they inherit from

{
  "id": "497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08",
  "org_id": "a40f5d1f-d889-42e9-94ea-b9b33585fc6b",
  "user_id": "a169451c-8525-4352-b8ca-070dd449a1a5",
  "created": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "name": "string",
  "description": "string",
  "deleted_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "member_permissions": [
    {
      "permission": "create",
      "restrict_object_type": "organization"
    }
  ],
  "member_roles": [
    "497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08"
  ]
}

GET
/v1/role/{role_id}

Get role

Get a role object by its id

/v1/role/{role_id}

The Authorization access token

Authorization

Authorization
Required
Bearer <token>

Most Braintrust endpoints are authenticated by providing your API key as a header Authorization: Bearer [api_key] to your HTTP request. You can create an API key in the Braintrust organization settings page.

In: header


Path Parameters

role_id
Required
string

Role id

Format: "uuid"
Status codeDescription
200Returns the role object
400The request was unacceptable, often due to missing a required parameter
401No valid API key provided
403The API key doesn’t have permissions to perform the request
429Too many requests hit the API too quickly. We recommend an exponential backoff of your requests
500Something went wrong on Braintrust's end. (These are rare.)
curl -X GET "https://api.braintrust.dev/v1/role/497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08"

A role is a collection of permissions which can be granted as part of an ACL

Roles can consist of individual permissions, as well as a set of roles they inherit from

{
  "id": "497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08",
  "org_id": "a40f5d1f-d889-42e9-94ea-b9b33585fc6b",
  "user_id": "a169451c-8525-4352-b8ca-070dd449a1a5",
  "created": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "name": "string",
  "description": "string",
  "deleted_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "member_permissions": [
    {
      "permission": "create",
      "restrict_object_type": "organization"
    }
  ],
  "member_roles": [
    "497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08"
  ]
}

PATCH
/v1/role/{role_id}

Partially update role

Partially update a role object. Specify the fields to update in the payload. Any object-type fields will be deep-merged with existing content. Currently we do not support removing fields or setting them to null.

/v1/role/{role_id}

The Authorization access token

Authorization

Authorization
Required
Bearer <token>

Most Braintrust endpoints are authenticated by providing your API key as a header Authorization: Bearer [api_key] to your HTTP request. You can create an API key in the Braintrust organization settings page.

In: header


Request Body (Optional)

Fields to update

descriptionstring | null

Textual description of the role

namestring | null

Name of the role

add_member_permissionsarray<object> | null

A list of permissions to add to the role

remove_member_permissionsarray<object> | null

A list of permissions to remove from the role

add_member_rolesarray<string> | null

A list of role IDs to add to the role's inheriting-from set

remove_member_rolesarray<string> | null

A list of role IDs to remove from the role's inheriting-from set

Path Parameters

role_id
Required
string

Role id

Format: "uuid"
Status codeDescription
200Returns the role object
400The request was unacceptable, often due to missing a required parameter
401No valid API key provided
403The API key doesn’t have permissions to perform the request
429Too many requests hit the API too quickly. We recommend an exponential backoff of your requests
500Something went wrong on Braintrust's end. (These are rare.)
curl -X PATCH "https://api.braintrust.dev/v1/role/497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08" \
  -d '{
  "description": "string",
  "name": "string",
  "add_member_permissions": [
    {
      "permission": "create",
      "restrict_object_type": "organization"
    }
  ],
  "remove_member_permissions": [
    {
      "permission": "create",
      "restrict_object_type": "organization"
    }
  ],
  "add_member_roles": [
    "497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08"
  ],
  "remove_member_roles": [
    "497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08"
  ]
}'

A role is a collection of permissions which can be granted as part of an ACL

Roles can consist of individual permissions, as well as a set of roles they inherit from

{
  "id": "497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08",
  "org_id": "a40f5d1f-d889-42e9-94ea-b9b33585fc6b",
  "user_id": "a169451c-8525-4352-b8ca-070dd449a1a5",
  "created": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "name": "string",
  "description": "string",
  "deleted_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "member_permissions": [
    {
      "permission": "create",
      "restrict_object_type": "organization"
    }
  ],
  "member_roles": [
    "497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08"
  ]
}

DELETE
/v1/role/{role_id}

Delete role

Delete a role object by its id

/v1/role/{role_id}

The Authorization access token

Authorization

Authorization
Required
Bearer <token>

Most Braintrust endpoints are authenticated by providing your API key as a header Authorization: Bearer [api_key] to your HTTP request. You can create an API key in the Braintrust organization settings page.

In: header


Path Parameters

role_id
Required
string

Role id

Format: "uuid"
Status codeDescription
200Returns the deleted role object
400The request was unacceptable, often due to missing a required parameter
401No valid API key provided
403The API key doesn’t have permissions to perform the request
429Too many requests hit the API too quickly. We recommend an exponential backoff of your requests
500Something went wrong on Braintrust's end. (These are rare.)
curl -X DELETE "https://api.braintrust.dev/v1/role/497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08"

A role is a collection of permissions which can be granted as part of an ACL

Roles can consist of individual permissions, as well as a set of roles they inherit from

{
  "id": "497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08",
  "org_id": "a40f5d1f-d889-42e9-94ea-b9b33585fc6b",
  "user_id": "a169451c-8525-4352-b8ca-070dd449a1a5",
  "created": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "name": "string",
  "description": "string",
  "deleted_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
  "member_permissions": [
    {
      "permission": "create",
      "restrict_object_type": "organization"
    }
  ],
  "member_roles": [
    "497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08"
  ]
}