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Fork a Sailbox

Authorizations

Authorization
string
header
required

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.

Headers

Idempotency-Key
string

Makes the request retry-safe. Sail remembers the answer it sent under a key, including a 400 or a 409, and replays it with Idempotent-Replayed: true for a retry that repeats the key, the method, the path, and the body. Bodies are compared byte for byte. Reusing a key for a different request returns 409, so send a corrected request under a new key. A key that is blank or only spaces is ignored, and the request runs without idempotency.

Any string of up to 255 bytes works, and characters outside ASCII count for more than one. A UUID is a good default. Keys are remembered for at least 24 hours and scoped to the API key that sent them.

A server error, or a failure to record the answer, can leave a key unsettled, and creating a Sailbox is where that matters. See Retrying safely.

Maximum string length: 255

Path Parameters

sailbox_id
string
required

Id of the Sailbox, as returned by create. It is sb_ followed by a UUID.

Pattern: ^sb_[0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}$

Body

application/json
name
string

Name for the copy. Defaults to the original's name with -fork appended. Control characters are not allowed.

Maximum string length: 128

Response

The new Sailbox is running. One that cannot be brought up fails the request instead of answering 200.

sailbox_id
string
required

Id of the copy.

status
string
required

Current state of the Sailbox. Values in use today are creating, running, paused, sleeping, terminating, terminated, failed, create_failed, interrupted_restorable, and interrupted_unsafe_to_retry. New values can appear over time, so treat this as an open set.

parent_checkpoint_generation
integer<int64>
required

Checkpoint counter of the Sailbox that was copied, at the moment of the copy. It goes up by one every time the Sailbox saves its state, which includes pausing and sleeping.

name
string

Name of the copy.