Use this endpoint to anonymize a user by the user's ID.
/services/v2/users/gdpr/[user-id]/anonymizeusercontent.json
- URL Params
The user ID is already a path param. This will include the passing of the user ID for the user the content will anonymize to.
- Data Params
No data params
For Permissions, Additional Requirements and More Detailed Information:
Reference the GDPR Plugin Docs in the Non-Reference portion of the documentation.
Sample Requests
A POST Anonymize User request to anonymize a user called usertoanonymizetwo (userId=121) sent to https://apidocs.cloud.answerhub.com using a human-readable Username/Password (answerhub/test123) would look like this:
curl
-x POST
–u answerhub:test123
-H “Accept:application/json”
-H "Content-Type:application/json"
“https://apidocs.cloud.answerhub.com/services/v2/users/gdpr/121/anonymizeusercontent.json”
This request below uses the query param anonTo=<user_id_to_transfer_anonymized_user_content>
userId 122 is anon3user
userId 114 is usertocatchanon3data
curl
-x POST
–u answerhub:test123
-H “Accept:application/json”
-H "Content-Type:application/json"
“https://apidocs.cloud.answerhub.com/services/v2/users/gdpr/122/anonymizeusercontent.json?anonTo=114”
Expected Responses
- Success and Error Responses: the format is < status or error code > / {}
- 200 / {“message”:””}
- 400 / {"error" : ""}
- 422 / {"error" : "<Invalid user ID">}
Sample Responses
Successful Response for the POST Anonymize User Request:
- HTTP Status 200 - OK
{
"message": "1315"
}
Successful Response for the POST Anonymize User Request with Query Param anonTo=114:
- HTTP Status 200 - OK
{
"message": "1320"
}
Anywhere usertocatchanon3 (114) shows u is the data that used to belong to anon3user (122)
Seeing the status of the Anonymization Process
If you want to see the status of the anonymization process from the admin dashboard, hit the SUBMIT button a second time.
If you are using the REST API client, and you want to see the status of the anonymization process:
use: users/gdpr/execution/{execution-id}/status.json
make sure the authorization type is basic auth
See Overview of GDPR Plugin to review other permissions and requirements