# Create a journal entry

Operation ID: `connectors.healthieCreateEntry`

Create a journal entry. ``percieved_hungriness``: "1" (not hungry), "2" (somewhat), "3" (very hungry).

## Public method

`createEntry`

Signature: `connectors.healthie.createClient(config).createEntry(body)`

Return type: `Promise<HealthieEntryResponse>`

## Authentication

Classification: **AUTHENTICATED**

Schemes: `bearerAuth`

## Prerequisites

None documented.

## HTTP

`POST /connectors/healthie/create-entry`

## Path parameters

None.

## Query parameters

None.

## Body parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Format | Allowed values | Default | Nullable | Description |
|---|---|---:|---|---|---|---:|---|
| `body` | [`HealthieCreateEntryRequest`](../models/HealthieCreateEntryRequest.md) | Yes |  |  |  | No |  |

Request model: [`HealthieCreateEntryRequest`](../models/HealthieCreateEntryRequest.md)

## Request example

```json
{
  "api_url": "https://example.com/resource",
  "auth_context": {
    "vendorField": "vendor-defined value"
  },
  "input": {
    "vendorField": "vendor-defined value"
  },
  "mode": "sandbox",
  "open_loop_url": "https://example.com/resource",
  "secret_key": "example-api-key",
  "shard_id": "12345"
}
```

## Success responses

| Status | Shape | Content type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `200` | [`HealthieCreateEntryResponse`](../models/HealthieCreateEntryResponse.md) | application/json | Successful response |

## Success response examples

### 200

```json
{
  "category": "example-category",
  "created_at": "example-created-at",
  "default_water_intake_for_entry_user": "example-default-water-intake-for-entry-user",
  "description": "example-description",
  "emotions": "example-emotions",
  "has_subentries": true,
  "healthiness_info_hex_value": "example-healthiness-info-hex-value",
  "id": "12345",
  "metric_stat": "example-metric-stat",
  "name": "Example Name",
  "previous_water_intake_stat": "example-previous-water-intake-stat",
  "type": "example-type",
  "viewed": true
}
```

## Common errors

| Status | Shape | Content type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `400` | [`StandardErrorResponse`](../models/StandardErrorResponse.md) | application/json | Connector validation rejected the payload, or a required field was missing or of the wrong type. |
| `401` | [`StandardErrorResponse`](../models/StandardErrorResponse.md) | application/json | The HealthCloud bearer token is missing or invalid, or the vendor rejected the supplied connector credentials. |
| `500` | [`StandardErrorResponse`](../models/StandardErrorResponse.md) | application/json | The connector failed unexpectedly. |
| `502` | [`StandardErrorResponse`](../models/StandardErrorResponse.md) | application/json | The vendor returned an application or transport-level failure. |
| `504` | [`StandardErrorResponse`](../models/StandardErrorResponse.md) | application/json | The vendor did not respond within the connector timeout. |

## Error examples

### 400 — Invalid request

```json
{
  "error": "Invalid request"
}
```

### 401 — Authorization required

```json
{
  "error": "Authorization required"
}
```

### 500 — Internal error

```json
{
  "error": "Internal error"
}
```

### 502 — Upstream vendor error

```json
{
  "error": "Upstream vendor error"
}
```

### 504 — Upstream timeout

```json
{
  "error": "Upstream timeout"
}
```

## NodeJS / TypeScript implementation

```ts
import { HCSDK } from "@healthcloudai/hc-sdk";
import type { HealthieCreateEntryRequest } from "@healthcloudai/hc-sdk";
```

```ts
const body = {
  "api_url": "https://example.com/resource",
  "auth_context": {
    "vendorField": "vendor-defined value"
  },
  "input": {
    "vendorField": "vendor-defined value"
  },
  "mode": "sandbox",
  "open_loop_url": "https://example.com/resource",
  "secret_key": "example-api-key",
  "shard_id": "12345"
};

const result = await connectors.healthie.createClient(config).createEntry(body);
```

## cURL

```bash
curl -X POST \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <ACCESS_TOKEN>' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"api_url":"https://example.com/resource","auth_context":{"vendorField":"vendor-defined value"},"input":{"vendorField":"vendor-defined value"},"mode":"sandbox","open_loop_url":"https://example.com/resource","secret_key":"example-api-key","shard_id":"12345"}' \
  'https://dev-api-connectors.health.cloud/connectors/healthie/create-entry'
```

## Notes

None.

## Prepared Test Console scenario

No canonical scenario is currently associated.

## Real response

No approved real integration response is currently published. Unapproved candidates are never rendered as examples.