Cancel a pending job

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.get-exo.com/v1/jobs/{job_id}/cancel \
  --header 'X-Exo-API-Key: <api-key>'

const options = {method: 'POST', headers: {'X-Exo-API-Key': '<api-key>'}};

fetch('https://api.get-exo.com/v1/jobs/{job_id}/cancel', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

{
  "createdAt": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
  "id": "<string>",
  "jobType": "<string>",
  "status": "<string>",
  "completedAt": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
  "error": "<string>",
  "result": {
    "domainsDetected": 123,
    "edgesCreated": 123,
    "nodesCreated": 123
  }
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

POST

jobs

{job_id}

cancel

Cancel a pending job

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.get-exo.com/v1/jobs/{job_id}/cancel \
  --header 'X-Exo-API-Key: <api-key>'

const options = {method: 'POST', headers: {'X-Exo-API-Key': '<api-key>'}};

fetch('https://api.get-exo.com/v1/jobs/{job_id}/cancel', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

{
  "createdAt": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
  "id": "<string>",
  "jobType": "<string>",
  "status": "<string>",
  "completedAt": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
  "error": "<string>",
  "result": {
    "domainsDetected": 123,
    "edgesCreated": 123,
    "nodesCreated": 123
  }
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

{
  "code": "<string>",
  "detail": "<string>",
  "status": 123,
  "title": "<string>",
  "type": "<string>",
  "documentationUrl": "<string>",
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "<string>",
      "field": "<string>",
      "message": "<string>",
      "pointer": "<string>"
    }
  ],
  "requestId": "",
  "suggestedAction": "<string>"
}

Cancel a PENDING job. Running or terminal jobs cannot be canceled. Only a pending job (not yet claimed by the worker) can be canceled; it transitions to canceled and stops being drained. A running or already-terminal (succeeded/failed/canceled) job returns 409 job_not_cancelable — cancellation never interrupts in-flight work. A job that is not in the caller’s visible set returns 404 job_not_found (a job owned by another member is a 404, not a 409 — admin keys act org-wide;).

Authorization

This route requires the write scope. A missing or invalid credential returns 401 authentication_error. A valid credential without the scope returns 403 permission_denied, and the problem body names the exact scope required.

Headers

These are request conventions the contract does not declare as parameters, so they do not appear in the schema tables below.

Header	Applies	What it does
`X-Exo-API-Key`	Required	Your Exo API key, `exo_<env>_<token>`. `Authorization: Bearer exo_...` is accepted as an alternate.
`X-Exo-Subject`	Not applicable	This route is not subject-scoped.
`Idempotency-Key`	Not honoured	This route does not replay: cancelling an already-cancelled job is a no-op on the job’s own state.
`X-Request-Id`	Response	Returned on every response, including `204`s. Quote it in a support request.

Success responses

Status	Meaning
`200`	Successful Response

Errors

Status	Code	When
`400`	`invalid_request`	Malformed request, for example an invalid cursor.
`401`	`authentication_error`	Missing or invalid credentials.
`403`	`permission_denied`	Missing scope, or an unprovisioned subject selector.
`404`	`not_found`	The resource does not exist, or is not visible to this caller.
`409`	`conflict`	A conflict with the current state of the resource.
`422`	`validation_error`	The request was understood but failed field validation.
`429`	`rate_limit_exceeded`	Rate limit exceeded. Retry after the Retry-After interval.
`503`	`service_degraded`	A dependency is temporarily unavailable. Safe to retry.

Beyond the shared statuses, this route can answer with job_not_cancelable, job_not_found. Every problem body names its own code, and the type URI always resolves to the matching page. Every error is an RFC 9457 application/problem+json body carrying a stable code, a requestId, and a suggestedAction where Exo has one. See Errors.

Notes

Only a pending job can be cancelled. A job the worker has already claimed returns 409 job_not_cancelable. Cancellation never interrupts work in flight.
A job you cannot see returns 404, not 409. The visibility check runs before the state check.

Authorizations

X-Exo-API-Key

string

header

required

An Exo API key (exo_...) sent as the X-Exo-API-Key header.

Path Parameters

job_id

string

required

The job id (a UUID) returned by an ingest or import call.

Response

Successful Response

A pollable ingest/import/session job (spec 4.3).

status is one of pending | running | succeeded | failed | canceled (documented as a string, not a closed enum, so a future internal status never breaks a tolerant reader). error is the human failure reason, non-null only on failed. result is the server's interpretation of a finished job (nodes/edges/domains created), null until the worker reports it.

createdAt

string<date-time>

required

string

required

jobType

string

required

status

string

required

completedAt

string<date-time> | null

error

string | null

result

JobResult · object | null

The server's interpretation of a finished job: what it created.

Populated from the worker's result block in payload_inline once the job completes; any field the worker did not report stays null.

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