GET v1/categories

Gets the event categories

Request Information

URI Parameters

None.

Body Parameters

None.

Response Information

Resource Description

A collection of categories

Collection of EventCategory

Name	Description	Type	Additional information
categoryId	The unique identifier of the category	integer	None.
parentCategoryId	The parent category of the event (if any)	integer	None.
name	The name of the event category	string	None.

Response Formats

application/json, text/json

Sample:

[
  {
    "categoryId": 1,
    "parentCategoryId": null,
    "name": "Performing Arts"
  },
  {
    "categoryId": 2,
    "parentCategoryId": 1,
    "name": "Music"
  }
]

text/xml

Sample:

<ArrayOfEventCategory xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/CitySpark.API.Models">
  <EventCategory>
    <categoryId>1</categoryId>
    <name>Performing Arts</name>
    <parentCategoryId i:nil="true" />
  </EventCategory>
  <EventCategory>
    <categoryId>2</categoryId>
    <name>Music</name>
    <parentCategoryId>1</parentCategoryId>
  </EventCategory>
</ArrayOfEventCategory>

text/csv

Sample:

categoryId,parentCategoryId,name
1,,Performing Arts
2,1,Music