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# Update Category

PATCH http://localhost:8000/api/v1/categories/{category}
Content-Type: application/json

**Endpoint:** `http://localhost:8000/api/v1/categories/:category`

Partially updates an existing category. Only the fields provided in the request body will be modified.

## Path Parameters

| Parameter   | Type    | Required | Description                      |
| ----------- | ------- | -------- | -------------------------------- |
| `:category` | integer | ✓        | The ID of the category to update |

## Request Body

All fields are optional. Only include the fields you want to update.

| Field         | Type    | Description              |
| ------------- | ------- | ------------------------ |
| `name`        | string  | New category name        |
| `description` | string  | New category description |
| `is_active`   | boolean | Active status            |

### Example

```json
{
    "name": "Procesadores Intel",
    "description": "Procesadores de escritorio y portátil"
}

```

## Response Schema `200 OK`

```json
{
    "data": {
        "id": "integer",
        "name": "string",
        "description": "string",
        "is_active": "boolean",
        "created_at": "string (ISO 8601)",
        "updated_at": "string (ISO 8601)"
    }
}

```

## Error Responses

| Status                     | Description             |
| -------------------------- | ----------------------- |
| `404 Not Found`            | Category does not exist |
| `422 Unprocessable Entity` | Validation error        |

Reference: https://api.josecarlosonate.com/stock-core-api/categories/update-category

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — Bearer authentication of the form `Bearer <token>`, where token is your auth token.

## Request

### Path parameters

- `category` (string, required)

### Body (application/json)

This endpoint expects an object.

- `name` (string, required)
- `description` (string, required)

## Response

### 200

Successful response

## Examples

**Request**

```json
{
  "name": "Procesadores intel",
  "description": "test de actualizacion desde postman"
}
```

**Response**

```json
{}
```

**SDK Code**

```python Categories_Update Category_example
import requests

url = "http://localhost:8000/api/v1/categories/3"

payload = {
    "name": "Procesadores intel",
    "description": "test de actualizacion desde postman"
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

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

print(response.json())
```

```javascript Categories_Update Category_example
const url = 'http://localhost:8000/api/v1/categories/3';
const options = {
  method: 'PATCH',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: '{"name":"Procesadores intel","description":"test de actualizacion desde postman"}'
};

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

```go Categories_Update Category_example
package main

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

func main() {

	url := "http://localhost:8000/api/v1/categories/3"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"name\": \"Procesadores intel\",\n  \"description\": \"test de actualizacion desde postman\"\n}")

	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 Categories_Update Category_example
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("http://localhost:8000/api/v1/categories/3")

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

request = Net::HTTP::Patch.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"name\": \"Procesadores intel\",\n  \"description\": \"test de actualizacion desde postman\"\n}"

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

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

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.patch("http://localhost:8000/api/v1/categories/3")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"name\": \"Procesadores intel\",\n  \"description\": \"test de actualizacion desde postman\"\n}")
  .asString();
```

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

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('PATCH', 'http://localhost:8000/api/v1/categories/3', [
  'body' => '{
  "name": "Procesadores intel",
  "description": "test de actualizacion desde postman"
}',
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer <token>',
    'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
  ],
]);

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

```csharp Categories_Update Category_example
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("http://localhost:8000/api/v1/categories/3");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.PATCH);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer <token>");
request.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
request.AddParameter("application/json", "{\n  \"name\": \"Procesadores intel\",\n  \"description\": \"test de actualizacion desde postman\"\n}", ParameterType.RequestBody);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift Categories_Update Category_example
import Foundation

let headers = [
  "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
  "Content-Type": "application/json"
]
let parameters = [
  "name": "Procesadores intel",
  "description": "test de actualizacion desde postman"
] as [String : Any]

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

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "http://localhost:8000/api/v1/categories/3")! 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()
```