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:api: get-categories
:request: GetCategoriesRequest
:response: GetCategoriesResponse
--
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=== Get categories API

Retrieves one or more category results.
It accepts a +{request}+ object and responds with a +{response}+ object.

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==== Get categories request

A +{request}+ object gets created with an existing non-null `jobId`.

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<1> Constructing a new request referencing an existing `jobId`.

==== Optional arguments
The following arguments are optional:

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<1> The ID of the category to get. Otherwise, it will return all categories.

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<1> The page parameters `from` and `size`. `from` specifies the number of
categories to skip. `size` specifies the maximum number of categories to get.
Defaults to `0` and `100` respectively.

include::../execution.asciidoc[]

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==== Get categories response

The returned +{response}+ contains the requested categories:

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<1> The count of categories that were matched.
<2> The categories retrieved.