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Create content type

post
https://api.cms.optimizely.com/v1/contenttypes

Create a new content type.

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The content type that should be created.

Represents a content type definition.

string
length between 2 and 255
^[A-Za-z][_0-9A-Za-z]+$

The unique identifier (key) of the resource.

string
required
length between 1 and 255

The display name of this ContentType.

string
length ≤ 255

A description of this ContentType.

string | null

The base type of this ContentType. Ignored for contracts; required for all other content types.

boolean

Specifies if the ContentType is a contract type.

int32

A value that is used to when sorting ContentType instances.

mayContainTypes
array of strings
length ≤ 1000

Provides a set of content types that can be created in containers of this type

mayContainTypes
mediaFileExtensions
array of strings
length ≤ 1000

Provides a set of media file extensions that this content type can handle.

mediaFileExtensions
compositionBehaviors
array of strings
length ≤ 1000

Provides a set of composition behaviors specifying how this content type can be used within compositions. Currently this can only be assigned when baseType is 'component'.

compositionBehaviors
Allowed:
contracts
array of strings
length ≤ 1000

Provides a set of contract content types that this content type is bound to.

contracts
properties
object

Dictionary with all custom properties of this ContentType.

accessRights
array of objects | null

The access rights assigned to this content type that defines who can create content of this type. If no access rights are assigned, everyone will be able to create content of this type. An empty array means that no new content of this type can be created.

accessRights
Headers
Prefer
array of strings

Indicates client preference for the response content as per IETF RFC7240. Currently only supports 'return=representation' which can be used to indicate a preference to receive a representation of the resource that has been altered in the response.

Prefer
string
enum
Defaults to application/json

Generated from available response content types

Allowed:
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