User Events — Proposed Guide

Planned API — Reference Only

User Events: User events could communicate profile updates, membership changes or access deactivation. They should not contain credentials or unrestricted…

Overview

User events could communicate profile updates, membership changes or access deactivation. They should not contain credentials or unrestricted employment attributes.

Key concepts

Publish minimal identifiers and a source version. Keep employment changes separate from access-grant decisions.

Implementation considerations

A consumer should not revoke unrelated access from an ambiguous profile update. Future event visibility needs organizational authorization.

Illustrative data model

This local fixture shows a possible representation for the concepts above. It is not an endpoint response, production configuration or a claim that the described capability is implemented.

JSON fixture

Fictional concept fixture

{
  "reference_only": true,
  "topic": "User Events",
  "event_id": "event_example_123",
  "user_id": "usr_example_123",
  "event_type": "expense.updated",
  "version": 1
}

Design review checklist

Document which organization owns the user events representation and which actor may view or change it.
Test the boundaries of event id, user id, event type, version using synthetic values, including missing or inconsistent references.
Before future implementation, obtain an approved contract and review failure behavior. This documentation does not authorize production activation.

Proposed data types

Illustrative field dictionary
Name	Type	Description
event_id	string	Stable fictional event reference; not a secret and not evidence that a resource exists.
user_id	string	Stable fictional user reference; not a secret and not evidence that a resource exists.
event_type	string	Illustrative business-fact name, not an instruction to move funds.
version	integer	Illustrative resource revision for detecting stale updates; no live concurrency contract is published.

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Webhooks & Events

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