# Question routes

URL: /code/api/question · Id: `page:code/api/question`

> Every Question Verb as an api.sb route, with its inputs, result, refusals and an example.

Reference for [Question](/business/nouns/question).

### Question.get
Returns one Question by id. [Verb page](/business/nouns/question/get?interface=api).

```text
GET /{namespace}/questions/{id}
```

Path: `id`. Query: the other inputs. Reads only: it emits no Event.

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | `string` | Yes | The id of the Question. |
| `at` | `string` | No | A time or Version name: the record as it stood then. Unset: as it stands now. |

**Returns**

| Output | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `question` | [Question](/business/nouns/question) | Yes | The Question. |

**Refuses when**

| Check | Error | Fix | Then call |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The key is valid, but its scopes do not allow this operation. | [`forbidden`](/code/api/errors/forbidden) | Use a key whose scopes cover the operation, or ask an owner of the namespace to grant them. | None. |

**Example**

```bash
curl https://api.sb/leaseline.app/questions/question_zuqUHd8LwY \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY"
```

```json
{
  "api": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app",
  "$type": "Question",
  "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/questions/question_zuqUHd8LwY",
  "question": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/questions/question_zuqUHd8LwY",
    "$type": "Question",
    "to": "thing_8ds0r9vvRl",
    "text": "Example text"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/questions/question_zuqUHd8LwY",
    "up": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/questions"
  }
}
```

### Question.list
Returns Questions, newest first, one page at a time. [Verb page](/business/nouns/question/list?interface=api).

```text
GET /{namespace}/questions
```

Query: the inputs. Reads only: it emits no Event.

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `limit` | `integer` | No | At most this many records, up to 100. The default is 20. |
| `after` | `string` | No | The cursor from the previous page. |
| `where` | `string` | No | A filter over the properties, such as `paidAt = null and total.amount > 500`. |
| `sort` | `string` | No | Properties to sort by, comma-separated; a leading minus sorts descending. |
| `total` | `boolean` | No | True adds the match count as `meta.total`, exact up to 10,000 matches and estimated above. |
| `facets` | `string` | No | Properties to count by value, comma-separated, returned as `meta.facets`. |
| `fields` | `string` | No | Properties to return on each record, comma-separated; `$id` and `$type` always return. |
| `include` | `string` | No | Related records to embed in place of their URLs, comma-separated. |
| `depth` | `integer` | No | How many levels of related records to embed. The default is 1. |
| `q` | `string` | No | Words to match across the text properties, ranked by relevance. |
| `match` | `string` | No | Ranks the search by `words`, or `meaning`; words is the default. |

**Returns**

| Output | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `questions` | list of [Question](/business/nouns/question) | Yes | One page of Questions. |

**Refuses when**

| Check | Error | Fix | Then call |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The key is valid, but its scopes do not allow this operation. | [`forbidden`](/code/api/errors/forbidden) | Use a key whose scopes cover the operation, or ask an owner of the namespace to grant them. | None. |

**Example**

```bash
curl "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/questions?limit=20" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY"
```

```json
{
  "api": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app",
  "$type": "Question",
  "questions": [
    {
      "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/questions/question_zuqUHd8LwY",
      "$type": "Question",
      "to": "thing_8ds0r9vvRl",
      "text": "Example text"
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "limit": 20,
    "after": "question_zuqUHd8LwY"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/questions?limit=20",
    "next": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/questions?after=question_zuqUHd8LwY"
  }
}
```