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Requesting Hazard Types

To request the list of hazard types configured in the system please use the route defined here: 
get
https://api.disasteraware.com/
hazards/types
Get hazard types
See Authorizing Requests page to get your accessToken.
cURL
Java
Node.js
PHP
Python
 curl --location --request GET \
   'https://api.disasteraware.com/hazards/types' \
   --header 'Authorization: Bearer your_accessToken'
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Scanner;
​
class Main {
​
	public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
		URL url = new URL("https://api.disasteraware.com/hazards/types");
		HttpURLConnection httpConn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
		httpConn.setRequestMethod("GET");
​
		httpConn.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Bearer your_accessToken");
​
		InputStream responseStream = httpConn.getResponseCode() / 100 == 2
				? httpConn.getInputStream()
				: httpConn.getErrorStream();
		Scanner s = new Scanner(responseStream).useDelimiter("\\A");
		String response = s.hasNext() ? s.next() : "";
		System.out.println(response);
	}
}
​
var fetch = require('node-fetch');
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fetch('https://api.disasteraware.com/hazards/types', {
    headers: {
        'Authorization': 'Bearer your_accessToken'
    }
});
​
<?php
include('vendor/rmccue/requests/library/Requests.php');
Requests::register_autoloader();
$headers = array(
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer your_accessToken'
);
$response = Requests::get('https://api.disasteraware.com/hazards/types', $headers);
​
import requests
​
headers = {
    'Authorization': 'Bearer your_accessToken',
}
​
response = requests.get('https://api.disasteraware.com/hazards/types', headers=headers)
​
This request will return an array that contains all of the hazard types. Each element in the array will have three properties:
Properties
Definitions
type_id
This is like the primary key for the hazard type. This is the value that will be found on the hazard object.
type_name
A human readable value for the hazard e.g. Volcano.
type_icon
This is the url for the hazard type icon’s image e.g. avalanche.png. The hazard icons are hosted at: https://static.pdc.org/icons/hazard/large/. To construct the fully qualified location for the hazard type’s icon combine the host location with type_icon value.

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Properties	Definitions
type_id	This is like the primary key for the hazard type. This is the value that will be found on the hazard object.
type_name	A human readable value for the hazard e.g. Volcano.
type_icon	This is the url for the hazard type icon’s image e.g. avalanche.png. The hazard icons are hosted at: https://static.pdc.org/icons/hazard/large/. To construct the fully qualified location for the hazard type’s icon combine the host location with type_icon value.