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Geofencing API

Create transition alert rule

Service version: 1Last edit: 2020.11.16Deprecated

Decommission notice

December 16, 2025

  • This service will be decommissioned on January 31, 2027.
  • All endpoints will be withdrawn following a 12 months deprecation period.
  • There is no recommended migration path.

Deprecation notice

November 6, 2020

  • The “Create transition alert rule” endpoint has been deprecated.

  • This endpoint has been replaced with the generic endpoint to handle all types of Alert Rules: Create Alert Rule .

  • This endpoint will be withdrawn following a 12 month deprecation period.

  • The planned withdrawal date is December 1, 2021.

  • Following withdrawal, requests to this endpoint may receive an HTTP 404 error in response.

  • More details are available at the TomTom deprecation policy page.

Purpose

This endpoint is used to configure a Transition Alert Rule.

Request data

HTTPS method: POST

  • Constants and parameters enclosed in curly brackets { } must be replaced with their values.
  • Please see the following Request parameters section with the required and optional parameters tables for their values. The generic request format is as follows.

URL format

post
URL request example
https://{baseURL}/geofencing/{versionNumber}/alerts/transitions?key={Your_API_Key}&adminKey={Your_Admin_Key}

curl command format

post
Request curl command example
curl -v -XPOST -H "Content-type: application/json" -d
'{
   "name": "{Enter name of created alert rule}",
   "object": "{Enter id of watched object}",
   "project": "(Enter id of watched project}",
   "fence": "{Enter id of watched fence}",
   "transitionType": "ALL",
   "notificationGroup": "{Enter id of your notification group}",
   "enabled": true
 }'
'https://{baseURL}/geofencing/{versionNumber}/alerts/transitions?key={Your_API_Key}&adminKey={Your_Admin_Key}'

Request parameters

The following table describes the parameters that can be used in a request.

  • Required parameters must be used or the call will fail.
  • Optional parameters may be used.
  • The order of request parameters is not important.

Note: There are no optional parameters in this endpoint.

Required parameters

Description

baseURL
string

The base URL for calling the API.
Value: api.tomtom.com

versionNumber
string

Service version.
Value: 1

key
string

An API Key valid for the requested service.
Value: Your valid API Key.

adminKey
string

An Admin Key valid for the provided API Key.
Value: Your valid Admin Key.

POST request body

post
URL request example - JSON
{
  "name": "Enter name of created alert rule",
  "object": "Enter id of watched object",
  "project": "Enter id of watched project",
  "fence": "Enter id of watched fence",
  "transitionType": "ALL",
  "notificationGroup": "Enter the id of your notification group",
  "enabled": true
}

Request fields

The following table describes the fields that can be used in a request body.

Primary fields

Description

name
string

The name of the alert rule.
Field is not required.
Default value: empty

object
string

The UUID of the object or * for any object in configuration.

project
string

The UUID of the project or * for any project in configuration.

fence
string

The UUID of the fence or * for any fence in configuration.

transitionType
string

The type of the transition to alert.
Possible values:

  • "ENTER": When an object just entered the fence.

  • "EXIT": When an object just exited the fence.

  • "ALL": When an object just entered or exited the fence.

notificationGroup
string

The UUID of the owned group in the Notification Service to send an alert.

enabled
boolean

The Boolean value that says if an alert rule is enabled or not.
Values:

  • true: An alert is enabled.

  • false: An alert is disabled.


Field is not required.
Default value: true

Response data

Response body

Response body - JSON
{
  "id": "Id of created alert rule",
  "covers": [
    "Id of covered other alert rule",
    "Id of covered other different alert rule"
  ]
}

Response fields

The following table describes all of the fields that can appear in a response.

Primary fields

Description

id
string

The UUID of the alert rule.

covers
array

The list of UUID alerts covered by the already created alert rules.

Response codes

Code

Meaning & possible causes

201

Created

400

Bad request:

  • Alert rule name is too long.
  • Object id is not provided.
  • Object id is incorrect.
  • Project id is not provided.
  • Project id is incorrect.
  • Fence id is not provided.
  • Fence id is incorrect.
  • Transition type is not provided.
  • Transition type is incorrect.
  • Notification group id is not provided.
  • Notification group id is incorrect.

403

Forbidden:

  • Provided Admin Key is invalid.
  • Admin Key is missing.

Example

Create a new transition alert rule.

Request format

post
URL request example
https://api.tomtom.com/geofencing/1/alerts/transitions?key=PJD7y0G5AFj9Jiok6F0tIK16NiWYotb3&adminKey=b330d317-4fe1-4d48-b75f-06cc3be58fb2

POST body format

post
URL request example - JSON
{
  "name": "Airport transition alert rule",
  "object": "*",
  "project": "ab550513-7026-4c98-9ff7-a930d70b66f8",
  "fence": "0b16633b-7b2b-4fd6-a834-f36c2250ab66",
  "transitionType": "ALL",
  "notificationGroup": "8e34613a-2324-4749-ac9d-25bf7a91d218",
  "enabled": true
}

Response body

Response body - JSON
{
  "id": "1f9e811f-867b-4d4d-aed9-7d8266fac0ae",
  "covers": [
    "e4f06777-079e-4f02-a49d-97dd4c4e3a81",
    "c930bae3-98c8-4c07-93e6-f01ca1c3134a"
  ]
}