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Polls API

Manage polls

A Poll object looks like:

{
  // The unique identifier for the poll.
  "id": 1023,
  // The question/title of the poll.
  "question": "What do you consider most important to your learning in this course?",
  // A short description of the poll.
  "description": "This poll is to determine what priorities the students in the course have.",
  // The time at which the poll was created.
  "created_at": "2014-01-07T15:16:18Z",
  // The unique identifier for the user that created the poll.
  "user_id": 105,
  // An aggregate of the results of all associated poll sessions, with the poll
  // choice id as the key, and the aggregated submission count as the value.
  "total_results": {"543":20,"544":5,"545":17}
}

List polls Polling::PollsController#index

GET /api/v1/polls

Scope: url:GET|/api/v1/polls

Returns the paginated list of polls for the current user.

Example Response:

{
  "polls": [Poll]
}

Get a single poll Polling::PollsController#show

GET /api/v1/polls/:id

Scope: url:GET|/api/v1/polls/:id

Returns the poll with the given id

Example Response:

{
  "polls": [Poll]
}

Create a single poll Polling::PollsController#create

POST /api/v1/polls

Scope: url:POST|/api/v1/polls

Create a new poll for the current user

Request Parameters:

Parameter Type Description
polls[][question] Required string

The title of the poll.
polls[][description] string

A brief description or instructions for the poll.

Example Response:

{
  "polls": [Poll]
}

Update a single poll Polling::PollsController#update

PUT /api/v1/polls/:id

Scope: url:PUT|/api/v1/polls/:id

Update an existing poll belonging to the current user

Request Parameters:

Parameter Type Description
polls[][question] Required string

The title of the poll.
polls[][description] string

A brief description or instructions for the poll.

Example Response:

{
  "polls": [Poll]
}

Delete a poll Polling::PollsController#destroy

DELETE /api/v1/polls/:id

Scope: url:DELETE|/api/v1/polls/:id

204 No Content response code is returned if the deletion was successful.