Reset applicants password

If you want to offer your applicants a password recovery functionality use the /resetPassword endpoint directly for the second step of that process – resetting the applicants password. In the step before the applicant has successfully requested a ‘lost password’ link. Things like validating against a password policy have to be done by yourself.

Request with tokens

By sending the following POST-request, you can reset the password:

with TOKEN being either a client access token or a user access token. It is used to determine the validity of this request. The {password} query parameter declares the new password of the applicant.

Request with basic authorization

As an alternative, you can use here the basic authorization method. Just write

{clientId} is the ID for your application to develop given to you by softgarden. The colon seen in the example is obligatory.

Path parameters

– none –

Query parameters

Name Description Data Type Default Value
password The new password of the applicant. String n/a

Response values

Upon Returned value Description
success true If the password was reset successfully.
failure false When an error appears while processing your request, e.g. user access token is invalid.
failure 500 – INTERNAL SERVER ERROR When an error appears while processing your request.
authorization error 401 / 403 See here for details.

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