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Alpha: Document API is currently alpha and subject to breaking changes.

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Summary

Insert a new citation mark at a target location.
  • Operation ID: citations.insert
  • API member path: editor.doc.citations.insert(...)
  • Mutates document: yes
  • Idempotency: non-idempotent
  • Supports tracked mode: no
  • Supports dry run: no
  • Deterministic target resolution: yes

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Expected result

Returns a CitationMutationResult indicating success with the citation address or a failure.

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Input fields

FieldTypeRequiredDescription
atTextTargetyesTextTarget
at.kind"text"yesConstant: "text"
at.segmentsTextSegment[]yes
sourceIdsstring[]yes

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Example request

{
  "at": {
    "kind": "text",
    "segments": [
      {
        "blockId": "block-abc123",
        "range": {
          "end": 10,
          "start": 0
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "sourceIds": [
    "example"
  ]
}

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Output fields

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Variant 1 (citation.kind=“inline”)

FieldTypeRequiredDescription
citationobject(kind=“inline”)yes
citation.anchorInlineAnchoryesInlineAnchor
citation.anchor.endPositionyesPosition
citation.anchor.end.blockIdstringyes
citation.anchor.end.offsetintegeryes
citation.anchor.startPositionyesPosition
citation.anchor.start.blockIdstringyes
citation.anchor.start.offsetintegeryes
citation.kind"inline"yesConstant: "inline"
citation.nodeType"citation"yesConstant: "citation"
successtrueyesConstant: true

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Variant 2 (success=false)

FieldTypeRequiredDescription
failureobjectyes
failure.codestringyes
failure.detailsanyno
failure.messagestringyes
successfalseyesConstant: false

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Example response

{
  "citation": {
    "anchor": {
      "end": {
        "blockId": "block-abc123",
        "offset": 0
      },
      "start": {
        "blockId": "block-abc123",
        "offset": 0
      }
    },
    "kind": "inline",
    "nodeType": "citation"
  },
  "success": true
}

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Pre-apply throws

  • TARGET_NOT_FOUND
  • INVALID_TARGET
  • INVALID_INPUT
  • CAPABILITY_UNAVAILABLE

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Non-applied failure codes

  • None

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Raw schemas

{
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "properties": {
    "at": {
      "$ref": "#/$defs/TextTarget"
    },
    "sourceIds": {
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "type": "array"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "at",
    "sourceIds"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

{
  "oneOf": [
    {
      "additionalProperties": false,
      "properties": {
        "citation": {
          "additionalProperties": false,
          "properties": {
            "anchor": {
              "$ref": "#/$defs/InlineAnchor"
            },
            "kind": {
              "const": "inline"
            },
            "nodeType": {
              "const": "citation"
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "kind",
            "nodeType",
            "anchor"
          ],
          "type": "object"
        },
        "success": {
          "const": true
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "success",
        "citation"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    },
    {
      "additionalProperties": false,
      "properties": {
        "failure": {
          "additionalProperties": false,
          "properties": {
            "code": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "details": {},
            "message": {
              "type": "string"
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "code",
            "message"
          ],
          "type": "object"
        },
        "success": {
          "const": false
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "success",
        "failure"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    }
  ]
}

{
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "properties": {
    "citation": {
      "additionalProperties": false,
      "properties": {
        "anchor": {
          "$ref": "#/$defs/InlineAnchor"
        },
        "kind": {
          "const": "inline"
        },
        "nodeType": {
          "const": "citation"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "kind",
        "nodeType",
        "anchor"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    },
    "success": {
      "const": true
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "success",
    "citation"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

{
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "properties": {
    "failure": {
      "additionalProperties": false,
      "properties": {
        "code": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "details": {},
        "message": {
          "type": "string"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "code",
        "message"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    },
    "success": {
      "const": false
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "success",
    "failure"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}