# bulkCreateCandidates

Source: /openapi/thomas-federated.openapi.json

## Operation

| Method | URL |
|---|---|
| POST | https://api.thomas.co/v1/candidates/bulk |

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| operationId | bulkCreateCandidates |
| method | POST |
| server | https://api.thomas.co |
| path | /v1/candidates/bulk |
| tags | `Recruitment` |
| summary | Bulk create candidates |
| badges | `{"name":"Admin"}`, `{"name":"Owner"}` |
| scopes | `users:w` |

## Description

Create up to 100 candidates. Each row is created independently and reports its own outcome — a rejected row neither hides nor rolls back the others. A Partner API client requires a tenant context and `users:w`, and may send an optional `Idempotency-Key`: a replay returns the whole original outcome, rejected rows included, so retry rejected rows under a new key.

## Request Parameters

| Name | In | Required | Schema | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Idempotency-Key | header | false | string | An opaque client-generated key, 1-255 visible ASCII characters excluding comma. Optional, and recommended for every write. Repeating a request with the same key and the same canonical request returns the ORIGINAL response instead of performing the work twice. Reusing the key for a DIFFERENT canonical request is refused with 409 IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_REUSED, and an equivalent request still in flight is refused with 409 IDEMPOTENCY_REQUEST_IN_PROGRESS and a Retry-After header. Omit it and the operation behaves exactly as it does without this header: the work is performed, and no replay protection applies. Sending the header with an EMPTY value counts as omitting it; any other malformed value — a repeated header, a comma-separated pair, or a value outside the charset or length above — is refused with 400 IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_INVALID. |
| Thomas-On-Behalf-Of | header | false | string | Optional for a Partner API client on this operation. Send it to act on behalf of one named person: thomas:<companyIndividualId> or partner:<partnerReference>. The call is then authorised as that person, within that person's access circles and the scopes your Grant holds. Omit it to call as your API client. A signed-in person never sends it. |
| Thomas-Tenant-Id | header | true | string:uuid | Required for API clients: the Tenant this call acts in. Send exactly one. Signed-in users don't send it — their Tenant comes from their session. The header only selects the Tenant; your Grant for it decides access, and is checked on every call. |

## Request Body

| Content type | Required | Schema refs |
|---|---|---|
| application/json | true | #/components/schemas/CandidateBulkDto |

## Responses

| Status | Description | Schema refs |
|---|---|---|
| 201 | Per-row outcomes with created and rejected tallies | #/components/schemas/CandidateBulkCreateResponseDto |
| 400 | Validation error in request body. A Partner may also send a malformed tenant or person selector. The Idempotency-Key header may also be sent in a shape that cannot be bound. Also returned when the Thomas-On-Behalf-Of header is repeated or malformed. | #/components/schemas/ApiErrorResponseDto |
| 401 | Invalid or missing authentication token (AUTH_TOKEN_INVALID) | #/components/schemas/ApiErrorResponseDto |
| 403 | Refused when the caller has insufficient role (owner or admin required), envelope `AUTH_INSUFFICIENT_ROLE`, or when the tenant’s effective plan tier does not include the Candidates capability, envelope `INSUFFICIENT_TIER` — a Partner API client is held to the tenant’s plan too. An API client is refused before any tenant data is read or changed when its tenant context, Grant or scope does not authorise the operation (AUTH_TENANT_NOT_GRANTED), when its service membership is absent (AUTH_SERVICE_MEMBERSHIP_MISSING), or when the operation is not published to its principal kind (PRINCIPAL_TYPE_NOT_ALLOWED). An API client holds no organisation role, so AUTH_INSUFFICIENT_ROLE never applies to it. | #/components/schemas/ApiErrorResponseDto |
| 404 | The named acting person is unavailable. | #/components/schemas/ApiErrorResponseDto |
| 409 | The Idempotency-Key conflicts with an attempt already recorded against it. | #/components/schemas/ApiErrorResponseDto |
| 429 | Rate limit exceeded. | #/components/schemas/ApiErrorResponseDto |

### Response 409 headers

| Name | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| Retry-After | Present as `1` only when an equivalent idempotent request is in progress | {"type":"string","example":"1"} |

### Response 429 headers

| Name | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| Retry-After | Seconds until the rate-limit block expires before retrying. | {"type":"integer","minimum":0} |
| RateLimit-Limit | Configured request limit for the active rate-limit window. | {"type":"integer"} |
| RateLimit-Remaining | Requests remaining in the active rate-limit window; zero when blocked. | {"type":"integer"} |
| RateLimit-Reset | Seconds until the rate-limit block expires. | {"type":"integer","minimum":0} |

## Artifact Examples

### Response 400 example — HTTP_BAD_REQUEST

```json
{
  "statusCode": 400,
  "message": "Validation failed",
  "error": "HTTP_BAD_REQUEST",
  "details": {
    "validationIssues": [
      {
        "path": "$",
        "rule": "invalid_type"
      }
    ]
  }
}
```

### Response 400 example — AUTH_TENANT_CONTEXT_INVALID (Malformed person selector)

```json
{
  "statusCode": 400,
  "message": "Exactly one valid Thomas-On-Behalf-Of header is required",
  "error": "AUTH_TENANT_CONTEXT_INVALID"
}
```

### Response 400 example — AUTH_TENANT_CONTEXT_INVALID (Missing or malformed tenant selector)

```json
{
  "statusCode": 400,
  "message": "Exactly one valid Thomas-Tenant-Id header is required",
  "error": "AUTH_TENANT_CONTEXT_INVALID"
}
```

### Response 400 example — IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_INVALID

```json
{
  "statusCode": 400,
  "message": "Exactly one valid Idempotency-Key header is required",
  "error": "IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_INVALID"
}
```

### Response 401 example

```json
{
  "statusCode": 401,
  "message": "Invalid or missing authentication token",
  "error": "AUTH_TOKEN_INVALID"
}
```

### Response 403 example — AUTH_INSUFFICIENT_ROLE

```json
{
  "statusCode": 403,
  "message": "Insufficient role privileges",
  "error": "AUTH_INSUFFICIENT_ROLE"
}
```

### Response 403 example — AUTH_TENANT_NOT_GRANTED (Tenant not granted)

```json
{
  "statusCode": 403,
  "message": "API client is not granted access to this tenant",
  "error": "AUTH_TENANT_NOT_GRANTED"
}
```

### Response 403 example — PRINCIPAL_TYPE_NOT_ALLOWED (Principal kind not allowed)

```json
{
  "statusCode": 403,
  "message": "On-behalf access is not permitted for this operation",
  "error": "PRINCIPAL_TYPE_NOT_ALLOWED"
}
```

### Response 403 example — AUTH_TENANT_NOT_GRANTED (No Grant or scope for this tenant)

```json
{
  "statusCode": 403,
  "message": "API client is not granted access to this tenant",
  "error": "AUTH_TENANT_NOT_GRANTED"
}
```

### Response 403 example — AUTH_SERVICE_MEMBERSHIP_MISSING

```json
{
  "statusCode": 403,
  "message": "API client has no active service membership in this tenant",
  "error": "AUTH_SERVICE_MEMBERSHIP_MISSING"
}
```

### Response 403 example — PRINCIPAL_TYPE_NOT_ALLOWED (This operation is not published to the calling principal kind)

```json
{
  "statusCode": 403,
  "message": "API client is not permitted to call this operation",
  "error": "PRINCIPAL_TYPE_NOT_ALLOWED"
}
```

### Response 404 example — AUTH_ON_BEHALF_PERSON_NOT_AVAILABLE

```json
{
  "statusCode": 404,
  "message": "The named person is not available for this operation",
  "error": "AUTH_ON_BEHALF_PERSON_NOT_AVAILABLE"
}
```

### Response 409 example — IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_REUSED

```json
{
  "statusCode": 409,
  "message": "This Idempotency-Key was already used for a different request",
  "error": "IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_REUSED"
}
```

### Response 409 example — IDEMPOTENCY_REQUEST_IN_PROGRESS

```json
{
  "statusCode": 409,
  "message": "An equivalent request is already in progress",
  "error": "IDEMPOTENCY_REQUEST_IN_PROGRESS"
}
```

### Response 429 example

```json
{
  "statusCode": 429,
  "message": "ThrottlerException: Too Many Requests",
  "error": "HTTP_TOO_MANY_REQUESTS"
}
```