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# Update an organization

PATCH https://api.mixlayer.com/v1/organizations/{org_id}
Content-Type: application/json

When authenticated with an API key, this operation requires `api-admin`.

Reference: https://docs.mixlayer.com/api-reference/platform-api/organizations/update-organization

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — Console user session or Mixlayer API key supplied as a Bearer token.

## Request

### Path parameters

- `org_id` (string, required) — Organization ID

### Body (application/json)

This endpoint expects an UpdateOrganizationRequest.

- `data_persistence` (DataPersistenceConfig, optional) — Stored-response persistence settings. `stored_responses_days` overrides the default 30-day retention for Responses API requests using `store: true`; values must be 0 through 90, and 0 disables storage.
- `name` (string, optional) — New organization name. Whitespace is trimmed and the resulting name must not be empty.

## Response

### 200

Updated organization

- `data` (ApiDataResponseOrganizationDetailData, required) — Organization details with the caller's role and current member counts.

## Errors

### 400 Bad Request Error

The request body contains malformed JSON or invalid values.

- `error` (ApiErrorBody, required) — Structured error details.

### 401 Unauthorized Error

Authentication is missing or invalid.

- `error` (ApiErrorBody, required) — Structured error details.

### 403 Forbidden Error

The authenticated principal cannot perform this operation.

- `error` (ApiErrorBody, required) — Structured error details.

### 404 Not Found Error

Organization not found

- `error` (ApiErrorBody, required) — Structured error details.

### 413 Content Too Large Error

The request body exceeds the configured size limit.

- `error` (ApiErrorBody, required) — Structured error details.

### 415 Unsupported Media Type Error

The request does not have a JSON content type.

- `error` (ApiErrorBody, required) — Structured error details.

### 422 Unprocessable Entity Error

The JSON body does not match the request schema or contains a rejected field value.

- `error` (ApiErrorBody, required) — Structured error details.

### 500 Internal Server Error

An unexpected server or database error occurred.

- `error` (ApiErrorBody, required) — Structured error details.

## Types

### DataPersistenceConfig

Organization data-persistence settings accepted and exposed by the APIs.

- `stored_responses_days` (integer, optional, nullable) — Stored-response retention in days for Responses API requests using `store: true`. Overrides the default 30-day retention; zero disables storage.

### ApiDataResponseOrganizationDetailData

Organization details with the caller's role and current member counts.

- `billing_account_id` (string, required) — Billing account attached to the organization.
- `created_at` (datetime, required) — Time the organization was created.
- `data_persistence` (DataPersistenceConfig, required) — Organization data-persistence settings exposed by the API.
- `id` (string, required) — Stable organization identifier.
- `is_personal` (boolean, required) — Whether this is a console user's personal organization.
- `name` (string, required) — Organization name.
- `updated_at` (datetime, required) — Time the organization was last updated.
- `counts` (OrganizationCounts, required) — Current organization membership counts.
- `role` (enum, required) — Authenticated console user's role, or `member` for an organization-scoped API key.
  - Allowed values: `primary_owner`, `owner`, `member`

### ApiErrorBody

Structured error details returned by the platform API.

- `message` (string, required) — Human-readable error message.
- `code` (string, optional, nullable) — Stable machine-readable error code, when available.
- `details` (any, optional) — Error-specific structured context, when available.

### OrganizationCounts

Current organization membership counts.

- `members` (long, required) — Total active organization members.
- `primary_owners` (long, required) — Active primary owners.

## Examples

**Request**

```json
{}
```

**Response**

```json
{
  "data": {
    "billing_account_id": "string",
    "created_at": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
    "data_persistence": {
      "stored_responses_days": 1
    },
    "id": "string",
    "is_personal": true,
    "name": "string",
    "updated_at": "2024-01-15T09:30:00Z",
    "counts": {
      "members": 1,
      "primary_owners": 1
    },
    "role": "primary_owner"
  }
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
import requests

url = "https://api.mixlayer.com/v1/organizations/org_id"

payload = {}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

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

print(response.json())
```

```javascript
const url = 'https://api.mixlayer.com/v1/organizations/org_id';
const options = {
  method: 'PATCH',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: '{}'
};

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

```go
package main

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

func main() {

	url := "https://api.mixlayer.com/v1/organizations/org_id"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{}")

	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
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.mixlayer.com/v1/organizations/org_id")

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

request = Net::HTTP::Patch.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{}"

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

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

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.patch("https://api.mixlayer.com/v1/organizations/org_id")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{}")
  .asString();
```

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

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('PATCH', 'https://api.mixlayer.com/v1/organizations/org_id', [
  'body' => '{}',
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer <token>',
    'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
  ],
]);

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