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# Update the caller's notification preferences

PATCH https://api.finput.com.au/api/v1/notifications/preferences
Content-Type: application/json

Reference: https://docs.finput.com.au/api/endpoints/notifications/update-notification-preferences

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — JWT access token obtained from `POST /api/v1/auth/login`, or a `finput_sk_...` API token

## Request

### Body (application/json)

This endpoint expects a NotificationPreferencesUpdate.

- `categories` (map from string to boolean, optional)
- `quiet_hours_enabled` (boolean, optional, nullable)
- `quiet_hours_start` (string, optional, nullable)
- `quiet_hours_end` (string, optional, nullable)
- `timezone` (string, optional, nullable) — Sets a user-chosen zone, or the device's when sent with `follow_device: true`. `""` clears it and hands the choice back to device reports, and is refused while quiet hours depend on it. `null` leaves it unchanged.
- `follow_device` (boolean, optional, nullable) — `true` stores `timezone` as the device's zone (`timezone_source: device`) rather than a user choice, so later registrations keep it current. Needs a non-empty `timezone`, and works while quiet hours are on. `false` or `null` is the same as leaving it out.

## Response

### 200

The preferences after the update.

- `categories` (map from string to boolean, optional) — Every category, keyed by `NotificationCategory`, with its effective setting — the user's choice, or the default.
- `quiet_hours_enabled` (boolean, optional)
- `quiet_hours_start` (string, optional, nullable) — Local time in `timezone`, 24-hour `HH:MM`.
- `quiet_hours_end` (string, optional, nullable) — Local time in `timezone`. Earlier than the start means the window wraps midnight.
- `timezone` (string, optional) — IANA zone quiet hours are evaluated in. Empty until a device reports one or the user chooses one.
- `timezone_source` (enum, optional) — `device` — the latest zone a registered install reported. `user` — chosen explicitly; device reports never overwrite it. Empty when no zone is known.
  - Allowed values: ``, `device`, `user`
- `updated_at` (datetime, optional, nullable)
- `available_categories` (list of NotificationCategoryDescription, optional)

## Errors

### 400 Bad Request Error

An unknown category, a malformed time, an unrecognised timezone, or quiet hours without a complete window and a timezone.

- `error` (string, optional)
- `errors` (map from string to list of string, optional)

### 401 Unauthorized Error

Not authenticated.

- `error` (string, optional)
- `errors` (map from string to list of string, optional)

### 403 Forbidden Error

Called with an API token.

- `error` (string, optional)
- `errors` (map from string to list of string, optional)

## Types

### NotificationCategoryDescription

- `key` (enum, optional) — The closed set of things Finput pushes about. There is no billing, plan, trial or marketing category, and there will not be one. Read `available_categories` for labels rather than hardcoding them, and ignore a key you do not recognise.
  - Allowed values: `issue_reports`, `rate_card`, `account`
- `label` (string, optional)
- `description` (string, optional)
- `default_enabled` (boolean, optional)

## Examples

**Request**

```json
{}
```

**Response**

```json
{
  "categories": {
    "account": true,
    "issue_reports": true,
    "rate_card": false
  },
  "quiet_hours_enabled": true,
  "quiet_hours_start": "22:00",
  "quiet_hours_end": "07:00",
  "timezone": "Australia/Sydney",
  "timezone_source": "",
  "updated_at": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
  "available_categories": [
    {
      "key": "issue_reports",
      "label": "Issue reports",
      "description": "string",
      "default_enabled": true
    }
  ]
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://api.finput.com.au/api/v1/notifications/preferences"

payload = {}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.patch(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'https://api.finput.com.au/api/v1/notifications/preferences';
const options = {
  method: 'PATCH',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: '{}'
};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```

```go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.finput.com.au/api/v1/notifications/preferences"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("PATCH", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.finput.com.au/api/v1/notifications/preferences")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Patch.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```java
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.patch("https://api.finput.com.au/api/v1/notifications/preferences")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{}")
  .asString();
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('PATCH', 'https://api.finput.com.au/api/v1/notifications/preferences', [
  'body' => '{}',
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer <token>',
    'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://api.finput.com.au/api/v1/notifications/preferences");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.PATCH);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer <token>");
request.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
request.AddParameter("application/json", "{}", ParameterType.RequestBody);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = [
  "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
  "Content-Type": "application/json"
]
let parameters = [] as [String : Any]

let postData = JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: parameters, options: [])

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://api.finput.com.au/api/v1/notifications/preferences")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "PATCH"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers
request.httpBody = postData as Data

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```