Get Departments

Retrieve the community departments.

GET https://api.sonorancms.com/v2/community/departments

Rate limit: 13 requests per minute

Authenticated v2 endpoints are rate limited per credential rather than per IP address.

Retrieve the community departments.

Example Request

Sonoran.lua

local Sonoran = require("sonoran")

local sonoran = Sonoran.createClient({
  product = Sonoran.productEnums.CMS,
  apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY",
  communityId = "YOUR_COMMUNITY_ID",
  defaultServerId = 1,
  timeoutMs = 30000,
})

local response = sonoran.cms:getDepartmentsV2()

if response.success then
  print(response.data)
else
  print(response.reason)
end

Sonoran.js

const Sonoran = require("sonoran.js");

const instance = Sonoran.instance({
  apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY",
  communityId: "YOUR_COMMUNITY_ID",
  product: Sonoran.productEnums.CMS,
  serverId: 1,
});

async function main() {
  const response = await instance.cms.getDepartmentsV2();

  if (response.success) {
    console.log(response.data);
  } else {
    console.error(response.reason);
  }
}

main().catch((error) => {
  console.error(error);
});

Sonoran.py

from sonoran import Instance, productEnums

instance = Instance(
    apiKey="YOUR_API_KEY",
    communityId="YOUR_COMMUNITY_ID",
    product=productEnums.CMS,
    serverId=1,
)

response = instance.cms.getDepartmentsV2()

if response.success:
    print(response.data)
else:
    print(response.reason)

Sonoran.Net

using Sonoran;
using System.Text.Json;

using var sonoran = new SonoranClient(new SonoranClientOptions
{
    product = SonoranProduct.CMS,
    apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY",
    communityId = "YOUR_COMMUNITY_ID",
    defaultServerId = 1
});

var response = await sonoran.Cms.getDepartmentsV2();

if (response.success)
{
    Console.WriteLine(JsonSerializer.Serialize(response.data));
}
else
{
    Console.WriteLine(response.reason);
}

OpenAPI

openapi: "3.0.3"

info:

  title: "Sonoran CMS v2 - Get Departments"

  version: "1.0.0"

  description: "Retrieve the community departments."

servers:

  -

    url: "https://api.sonorancms.com"

paths:

  /v2/community/departments:

    get:

      summary: "Get Departments"

      operationId: "getDepartments"

      security:

        -

          bearerAuth: []

      responses:

        "200":

          description: "Successful response"

          content:

            application/json:

              schema:

                type: "object"

              example:

                success: true

                data:

                  -

                    uuid: "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111"

                    label: "Police Department"

                    labelTwo: "Police"

                    ranks:

                      -

                        id: "22222222-2222-2222-2222-222222222222"

                        label: "Cadet"

                        primaryOnly: true

                        secondaryOnly: false

                        power: 10

                meta:

                  timestamp: "2026-04-15T00:00:00.000Z"

                  path: "/v2/community/departments"

components:

  securitySchemes:

    bearerAuth:

      type: "http"

      scheme: "bearer"

      bearerFormat: "JWT"

cURL

curl --request GET \

  --url "https://api.sonorancms.com/v2/community/departments" \

  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \

  --header "Accept: application/json"

Response

The data array is the community department list. Each department includes its label pair and the ranks nested beneath it.

{

  "success": true,

  "data": [

    {

      "uuid": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",

      "label": "Police Department",

      "labelTwo": "Police",

      "ranks": [

        {

          "id": "22222222-2222-2222-2222-222222222222",

          "label": "Cadet",

          "primaryOnly": true,

          "secondaryOnly": false,

          "power": 10

        }

      ]

    }

  ],

  "meta": {

    "timestamp": "2026-04-15T00:00:00.000Z",

    "path": "/v2/community/departments"

  }

}