APIs/Energy APIVersion 1
APIs/Energy APIVersion 1

Details

Application

To use this API, you must first create an application. When your application is created, you will receive a VCC API key. This key must be included in the header of each request sent to the API.

Visit your account page to create or view applications.

Example

-H 'vcc-api-key: <your-vcc-api-key>'

Authorisation

This API implements the OAuth2 framework. An access token must be included in the header of each request sent to the API.

Visit the authorisation page for more information.

Example

-H 'authorization: Bearer <your-access-token>'

Common response model

Most of the responses from the API will have a common response body regardless of which endpoint is called, for successful (except 204) responses the response body will contain a data field which contains the information exposed by the endpoint. Each endpoint contains different datasets hence the format of the data field will change.

FieldDescription

Field

status

Description

The HTTP status codes.

Field

operationId

Description

The id of the specific operation which can be used for fault tracing.

Field

data

Description

Data returned by the specific endpoint.

Example

{
  "status": 0,
  "operationId": "string",
  "data": {}
}

Status codes

All the status codes which the API can return are described below.

Status codeDescription

Status code

200 OK

Description

Indicates a successful request.

Status code

202 Accepted

Description

Indicates a successful request, but the processing has not been completed.

Status code

204 No Content

Description

Indicates a successful request, the response will not contain a body.

Status code

400 Bad Request

Description

Error code which indicates that the update did not pass the validation rules defined in the Open API spec or an invalid json payload was sent.

Status code

401 Unauthorized

Description

Error code which usually indicates and error with either the VCC-API-key or Bearer token, check the error message for details.

Status code

404 Not found

Description

Error code which indicates that the resource could not be found, the description can contain a reason for the response.

Status code

406 Not Acceptable

Description

Error code which indicates that an invalid mediatype was sent in the Accept header.

Status code

422 Unprocessable Entity

Description

Error code which indicates that the update passes the validation rules defined in the Open API spec but fails against the internal business rules.

Status code

500 Internal Server Error

Description

Error Code which indicate that something went wrong when processing the request, check the error message for details.

Status code

502 Bad Gateway

Description

Error Code which indicate that something went wrong when calling the API.

Error handling

Sometimes things go wrong, in such cases the API will in addition to the error code return a message body containing information about the error. The message body has a base structure which will be the same regardless of the error. It can also contain a dynamic detail field with specific data for the particular HTTP status code and endpoint.

FieldDescription

Field

status

Description

The HTTP status codes.

Field

operationId

Description

The id of the specific operation which can be used for fault tracing.

Field

error.message

Description

A message explaining the error.

Field

error.description

Description

A more in detail description of the error.

Field

error.detail

Description

An object describing in detail what exactly went wrong, the format of the details object can differ between the endpoint and error codes.

Example

{
  "status": 0,
  "operationId": "string",
  "error": {
    "message": "string",
    "description": "string",
    "detail": "object"
  }
}

Debugging errors

If the error message from the request body doesn't provide enough information for troubleshooting, you can contact us at developer.portal@volvocars.com.

Before contacting us, please include a UUID in the vcc-api-operationId header of the problematic API request. This will help us locate your requests in our systems. If a vcc-api-operationId is not provided in a request, a UUID will automatically be generated for the request.

The vcc-api-operationId header will also always be returned in the response as a header with the same name.

Example

-H 'vcc-api-operationId: <UUID>'

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