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POST/api/v1/compliance/dpdp/session

Create a DPDP session for a data principal

Opens a per-principal session capturing the consented purposes, child flag (S.9), and significant-data-fiduciary status (S.10). One open session per (org, dataPrincipalId) — close the existing one before opening another.

Authentication

Send Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY on every request. Generate API keys at /dashboard/api-keys.

Request body required

Example

{
  "dataPrincipalId": "string",
  "projectId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
  "consentedPurposes": [],
  "isChild": false,
  "isSignificantDataFiduciary": false,
  "metadata": {}
}
Schema
{
  "application/json": {
    "schema": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "dataPrincipalId": {
          "type": "string",
          "minLength": 1,
          "maxLength": 200
        },
        "projectId": {
          "type": "string",
          "format": "uuid",
          "pattern": "^([0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[1-8][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[89abAB][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}|00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000|ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff)$"
        },
        "consentedPurposes": {
          "default": [],
          "maxItems": 50,
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string",
            "maxLength": 200
          }
        },
        "isChild": {
          "default": false,
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "isSignificantDataFiduciary": {
          "default": false,
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "metadata": {
          "type": "object",
          "additionalProperties": {}
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "dataPrincipalId",
        "consentedPurposes",
        "isChild",
        "isSignificantDataFiduciary"
      ],
      "additionalProperties": false
    }
  }
}

Response

All status codes

200Session created.
400(no description)
401(no description)
409Open session already exists for this principal.
429(no description)

Code samples

cURL

curl -X POST \
  https://evalguard.ai/api/v1/compliance/dpdp/session \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EVALGUARD_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "dataPrincipalId": "string", "projectId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "consentedPurposes": [], "isChild": false, "isSignificantDataFiduciary": false, "metadata": {} }'

TypeScript

import { EvalGuard } from "@evalguard/sdk";

const client = new EvalGuard({ apiKey: process.env.EVALGUARD_API_KEY });

const response = await client.request({
  method: "POST",
  path: "/api/v1/compliance/dpdp/session",
  body: {
    "dataPrincipalId": "string",
    "projectId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
    "consentedPurposes": [],
    "isChild": false,
    "isSignificantDataFiduciary": false,
    "metadata": {}
  },
});
console.log(response);

Python

from evalguard import EvalGuard
import os

client = EvalGuard(api_key=os.environ["EVALGUARD_API_KEY"])

response = client.request(
    method="POST",
    path="/api/v1/compliance/dpdp/session",
    body={
    "dataPrincipalId": "string",
    "projectId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
    "consentedPurposes": [],
    "isChild": False,
    "isSignificantDataFiduciary": False,
    "metadata": {}
},
)
print(response)

Go

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"os"
	"strings"
)

func main() {
	body := strings.NewReader(`{"dataPrincipalId":"string","projectId":"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000","consentedPurposes":[],"isChild":false,"isSignificantDataFiduciary":false,"metadata":{}}`)
	req, _ := http.NewRequestWithContext(context.Background(), "POST", "https://evalguard.ai/api/v1/compliance/dpdp/session", body)
	req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("EVALGUARD_API_KEY"))
	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil { panic(err) }
	defer resp.Body.Close()
	fmt.Println(resp.Status)
}

Errors

400401409429

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