Limitations

Webhook notifications will not be sent to the application triggering the profile change. Only other applications with webhook subscriptions will be notified

Receiving Webhooks

Payload

{
  "eventTime": "18.03.2024T09:56:17Z"
  "profileType": "TRAVELLER",
  "event": "UPDATE",
  "uuid": "25b46ba4-0e9e-4baa-83bd-ac21a50ef998",
  "company": {
    "uuid": "34f277f5-2618-4c9e-aa08-affa9f02dfaa"
    "name": "ACME Inc."
  }
}
FieldDescription
eventTime

UTC-Timestamp in format "dd.MM.yyyy'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'" of when the event has originally happened

profileType

The profile type for which this notification is sent:

  • TRAVELLER
  • CORPORATE
event

The notification type:

  • CREATE
  • UPDATE
  • DELETE
  • PING
    (for connectivity checks only, profileType will be set to TRAVELLER and uuid to a random UUID)
uuidThe Umbrella Faces UUID of the affected profile

company

For profileType TRAVELLER only: UUID + Name of the company currently associated with the traveler profile.

Message authentication

Each Webhook invocation will include the custom header "X-FacesWebhookSignature", which consist of the request body hashed using HMAC-SHA256 with the secret configured during Webhook setup in hex format.

Example: Using the above payload and secret S3cret! one would compute a hash value of 92649059fe0fc9457cba7b4e80da4fa42ce0528583517da66826c61e75dba624

Delivery

Payloads are delivered via HTTPS POST only. Each notification will be transmitted with an individual POST request without applying any batching logic and without any guaranteed order.

The recipient Server must present a trusted certificate and return a HTTP 2XX status code within 10 seconds for the notification delivery to be considered successful.

In case of an error Umbrella Faces will attempt to re-deliver the the notification up to 5 times over the next 2 hours before silently discarding the notification.

Depending on the number of notifications on our Webhook notification queue, individual notifications might be delayed for a longer time

Managing Webhooks

Webhooks are managed in a self-service fashion via the following set of APIs.

Search / List Webhooks 

Endpointapi/v1/configuration/webhooks
Request methodGET

Allows searching through a paged list of active Webhook subscriptions for the calling application.

Parameters
Name
Description
Validation
qFreetext query for finding webhooksRequired parameter
pageCurrent page within the result set, starts at 0Optional, number >= 0
pageSizeMaximum number of results per page. Default 10Optional, number > 0 and <= 100
curl -v -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" \
    "https://hurricane.umbrellanet.ch/uf-test/api/v1/configuration/webhooks?q=&page=0&pageSize=10"
{
    "moreResults": false,
    "results": [
        {
            "uuid": "56b19ace-1fa9-4346-a97c-f621c5138342",
            "name": "My Example Webhook",
            "profileTypes": [
                "TRAVELLER",
                "CORPORATE"
            ],
            "eventTypes": [
                "CREATE",
                "UPDATE",
                "DELETE"
            ],
            "url": "https://my.example.com/webhook/notify"
        }
    ]
} 

Create new Webhook

Each create triggers an immediate "PING" notification (with no retries) to the configured endpoint, and will only be accepted if the PING is succesful

Endpointapi/v1/configuration/webhook
Request methodPOST

Register a new Webhook subscription

curl -v -X POST \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    --data '{
    "name": "Notify myIntegrationX",
    "profileTypes": [
        "TRAVELLER",
        "CORPORATE"
    ],
    "eventTypes": [
        "CREATE",
        "UPDATE",
        "DELETE"
    ],
    "url": "https://my.example.com/webhook/notify",
    "secret": {
        "value": "MyNewSecret"
    }
}' https://hurricane.umbrellanet.ch/uf-test/api/v1/configuration/webhook
{
    "uuid": "c7c769bc-9310-4b29-b27c-f34355ec66b4",
    "name": "Notify myIntegrationX",
    "profileTypes": [
        "TRAVELLER",
        "CORPORATE"
    ],
    "eventTypes": [
        "CREATE",
        "UPDATE",
        "DELETE"
    ],
    "url": "https://my.example.com/webhook/notify",
    "secret": {
        "sensitiveValuePresent": true
    }
}

 

Update existing Webhook

To update a Webhook, please delete and re-create it

Delete Webhook

Endpointapi/v1/configuration/webhook/<uuid>
Request methodDELETE

Remove Webhook subscription.

Note: After deleting a Webook, some notifications that were already placed on the notification queue before deletion may still be delivered

Parameters
Name
Description
Validation
<uuid>The UUID of the subscription to be deletedRequired parameter
curl -v -X DELETE \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" \
    https://hurricane.umbrellanet.ch/uf-test/api/v1/configuration/webhook/c7c769bc-9310-4b29-b27c-f34355ec66b4