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Language

Retrieve a language

get/languages/{id}

Path parameters

ID of the language to retrieve

Response

Language retrieved successfully

idstring

ID of the language

companystring nullable

Company where the language was created

linkstring nullable

Link to language biography

namestring

Language's name

yearsinteger[]

Years range of creation of the language

yearConfirmedboolean

Indicates if the year of creation is confirmed or not

predecessorsstring[]

Language predecessors Id list

Example response

{
  "id": "612103bd20aaf1e4d5e853c0",
  "company": "Oracle",
  "link": "https://link-to-biography.com/java",
  "name": "Java",
  "nameExtra": {
    "link": "https://link-to-biography.com/java"
  },
  "years": [
    1995
  ],
  "yearConfirmed": true,
  "yearGroup": {
    "id": "612103bb20aaf1e4d5e84bd4",
    "name": "2020s",
    "position": 1
  },
  "authors": [
    {
      "id": "612103be20aaf1e4d5e85641",
      "birthDate": "1955-05-19",
      "country": "Canada",
      "link": "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gosling",
      "name": "Jame Gosling",
      "picture": "https://link-to-picture.com/author-name"
    }
  ],
  "predecessors": [
    "612103bc20aaf1e4d5e84cc6, 612103bc20aaf1e4d5e84cc6"
  ]
}