The root folder
const url = 'https://files.centralcodestation.com/api/v1/tenants/example/applications/example/folders/root';const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};
try { const response = await fetch(url, options); const data = await response.json(); console.log(data);} catch (error) { console.error(error);}curl --request GET \ --url https://files.centralcodestation.com/api/v1/tenants/example/applications/example/folders/root \ --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'Exists implicitly per application; every member may view it (it lists only what each caller may see).
Authorizations
Section titled “Authorizations”Parameters
Section titled “Parameters”Path Parameters
Section titled “Path Parameters”The Identity Server tenant id.
The Identity Server application id: a tenant application, or (platform clients) the client’s own platform application.
Responses
Section titled “Responses”Success.
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root for the application’s root folder.
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Send it as If-Match to refuse a stale write (412 revision_mismatch).
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A background job rewrites the subtree; writes under it answer 409 folder_busy.
Application-managed: the item is a folder an application marked, or lies below one. Read-only for people (403 folder_managed); only the application’s machine clients change it.
Who manages it and which folder carries the mark; null when not managed.
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The machine client that marked the managing folder.
A display name for it: the tenant application’s name, or a platform application’s slug.
The folder that carries the mark (the item itself, or its nearest marked ancestor). The tenant owner releases this one.
What the caller may do with the folder.
Example
{ "type": "folder", "folder_id": "01J9Z6R2M3N4P5Q6R7S8T9V0W1", "tenant_id": "fitness-co", "application_id": "fitness-app", "parent_id": "root", "name": "posts", "path": "/posts", "depth": 1, "description": null, "owner_id": "u-ana", "inherit": true, "acl_scope_id": "root", "entries_count": 0, "state": "available", "revision": 1, "metadata": {}, "managed": true, "managed_by": { "client_id": "fitness-backend", "name": "Fitness", "managed_folder_id": "01J9Z6R2M3N4P5Q6R7S8T9V0W1", "managed_at": "2026-10-22T09:12:33.120Z" }, "created_at": "2026-10-22T09:12:33.120Z", "updated_at": "2026-10-22T09:12:33.120Z", "trashed_at": null, "trashed_by": null, "my_actions": [ "view", "download", "edit", "share", "delete" ]}Error. error is one of: invalid_token.
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Stable snake_case error code.
Example
{ "status_code": 401, "error": "invalid_token", "message": "The bearer token is missing, malformed, expired, signed by an unknown key, or has the wrong audience (`aud` must be `files-api`).", "path": "/api/v1/tenants/fitness-co/applications/fitness-app/files/01J9Z6S9Q5F5R6Y2W2GZ3B3K4D", "timestamp": "2026-10-22T09:12:33.120Z"}Error. error is one of: not_tenant_member, no_application_access, tenant_not_available, insufficient_scope, client_context_mismatch, files_access_not_granted, missing_action.
object
Stable snake_case error code.
Example
{ "status_code": 403, "error": "not_tenant_member", "message": "The user is not an active member of the tenant in the URL.", "path": "/api/v1/tenants/fitness-co/applications/fitness-app/files/01J9Z6S9Q5F5R6Y2W2GZ3B3K4D", "timestamp": "2026-10-22T09:12:33.120Z"}Error. error is one of: application_not_found, not_found.
object
Stable snake_case error code.
Example
{ "status_code": 404, "error": "application_not_found", "message": "The application in the URL is not an active application of the tenant.", "path": "/api/v1/tenants/fitness-co/applications/fitness-app/files/01J9Z6S9Q5F5R6Y2W2GZ3B3K4D", "timestamp": "2026-10-22T09:12:33.120Z"}Error. error is one of: rate_limited.
object
Stable snake_case error code.
Example
{ "status_code": 429, "error": "rate_limited", "message": "Too many requests in the current window; `retry_after` (and the `Retry-After` header) says when to retry.", "path": "/api/v1/tenants/fitness-co/applications/fitness-app/files/01J9Z6S9Q5F5R6Y2W2GZ3B3K4D", "timestamp": "2026-10-22T09:12:33.120Z"}Error. error is one of: identity_unavailable.
object
Stable snake_case error code.
Example
{ "status_code": 503, "error": "identity_unavailable", "message": "The service could not reach the Identity Server and has no fresh cached answer.", "path": "/api/v1/tenants/fitness-co/applications/fitness-app/files/01J9Z6S9Q5F5R6Y2W2GZ3B3K4D", "timestamp": "2026-10-22T09:12:33.120Z"}default
Section titled “default”Error: see error for the code.
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Stable snake_case error code.
Example
{ "status_code": 403, "error": "invalid_request", "message": "This client is not bound to this tenant/application", "path": "/api/v1/tenants/t1/applications/a1/files/01J9Z6S9Q5F5R6Y2W2GZ3B3K4D"}