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# Planned animal deleted

POST 

Sent once per planned animal deleted. The payload is the planned animal as it was before deletion.

Reference: https://docs.benchling.com/in-vivo/webhooks/webhook-planned-animal-deleted

## Request

### Headers

- `Signature` (string, required) — Lowercase hex-encoded HMAC-SHA256 of the raw request body, keyed with your webhook's signing secret. Compute it over the bytes exactly as received, before parsing, and compare in constant time.

### Payload

- `id` (string, required) — Unique identifier for a webhook event. A retried delivery carries the same identifier, so use it to discard duplicates.
- `event` (enum, required) — The event that occurred.
  - Allowed values: `planned_animal.created`, `planned_animal.updated`, `planned_animal.deleted`
- `version` (enum, required) — A released version of the public API. Each OAuth client is registered against one version, which determines the response shape it receives.
  - Allowed values: `2022-12-14`
- `created_at` (datetime, required) — UTC timestamp with microsecond precision, always suffixed with `Z`, in the form `yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.SSSSSSZ`.
- `payload` (AnimalDefinitionV1, required) — A planned animal on a study: the animal a study expects to enrol, with the strain, sex and group it is planned for, and the animal assigned to it once one is.
- `client_id` (string, optional) — The OAuth client whose API request caused the event. Omitted when the event did not originate from an API request, and on events that never carry it.

## Types

### AnimalDefinitionV1

A planned animal on a study: the animal a study expects to enrol, with the strain, sex and group it is planned for, and the animal assigned to it once one is.

- `id` (string, required) — Unique identifier for a planned animal on a study.
- `planned_id` (string, required) — The identifier your team gave the planned animal within its study.
- `strain` (string, required, nullable) — The strain the animal is planned to be.
- `species` (string, required, nullable) — The species of the planned strain. Null when no strain is planned.
- `sex` (enum, required, nullable) — The sex the animal is planned to be.
  - Allowed values: `m`, `f`, `u`
- `metadata` (map from string to any, required, nullable) — The metadata assigned to the planned animal. Null when none is assigned.
- `animal_id` (string, required, nullable) — The animal assigned to the plan. Null until one is assigned.
- `study` (StudyNestedV1, required, nullable) — The study the animal is planned on.
- `study_group` (StudyGroupNestedV1, required, nullable) — The group the animal is planned for. Null when no group is planned.
- `created_at` (datetime, required) — UTC timestamp with microsecond precision, always suffixed with `Z`, in the form `yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.SSSSSSZ`.
- `updated_at` (datetime, required) — UTC timestamp with microsecond precision, always suffixed with `Z`, in the form `yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.SSSSSSZ`.

### StudyNestedV1

The study a record belongs to, as embedded in animals, dosages, measurements, observations and samples. Carries the same attributes as a study retrieved directly, except that the project is given as an identifier rather than an embedded object.

- `id` (string, required) — Unique identifier for a study.
- `project_id` (string, required, nullable) — The project of the study. Null when the study is not in a project.
- `name` (string, required) — The name of the study.
- `code` (string, required, nullable) — The code of the study.
- `study_code_id` (string, required, nullable) — The unique identifier of the study code template.
- `type` (enum, required) — Whether the study is run in-house or by an external partner. The `all` value accepted by some filters is not a valid study type and is never returned.
  - Allowed values: `internal`, `external`
- `status` (enum, required) — Review status of a study.
  - Allowed values: `awaiting_approval`, `in_progress`, `rejected`
- `description` (string, required, nullable) — The description of the study.
- `timezone` (string, required, nullable) — The timezone of the study, as an IANA timezone identifier.
- `metadata` (map from string to any, required, nullable) — The metadata associated to the study.
- `author` (StudyAuthorUserV1, required, nullable) — The author of the study.
- `owner` (StudyAuthorUserV1, required, nullable) — The owner of the study.
- `started_on` (date, required) — Calendar date with no time or offset component, in ISO-8601 form.
- `tracking_day_base` (integer, required, nullable) — The day number assigned to the study's start date, from which all subsequent tracking days are counted.
- `completed_at` (datetime, required, nullable) — The completed timestamp of the study.
- `canceled_at` (datetime, required, nullable) — The canceled timestamp of the study.
- `created_at` (datetime, required) — UTC timestamp with microsecond precision, always suffixed with `Z`, in the form `yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.SSSSSSZ`.
- `updated_at` (datetime, required) — UTC timestamp with microsecond precision, always suffixed with `Z`, in the form `yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.SSSSSSZ`.

### StudyGroupNestedV1

The treatment group an animal is assigned to within a study, as embedded in the animal. The study is given as an identifier rather than an object to keep the animal response from nesting the same study twice.

- `id` (string, required) — Unique identifier for a study group.
- `study_id` (string, required) — Unique identifier for a study.
- `name` (string, required) — The name of the study group.
- `no` (integer, required, nullable) — The position of the group in the study's group ordering.
- `color` (string, required, nullable) — The colour used to represent the group in the interface.
- `max_animals` (integer, required, nullable) — The number of animals the group can hold. Assigning an animal to a group already at this capacity is rejected. Null when the group is uncapped.
- `control` (boolean, required) — Whether the group is the study's control group.
- `metadata` (map from string to any, required, nullable) — The metadata associated to the study group.
- `created_at` (datetime, required) — UTC timestamp with microsecond precision, always suffixed with `Z`, in the form `yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.SSSSSSZ`.
- `updated_at` (datetime, required) — UTC timestamp with microsecond precision, always suffixed with `Z`, in the form `yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.SSSSSSZ`.

### StudyAuthorUserV1

A user referenced as the author or owner of a study.

- `id` (string, required) — Unique identifier for a user.
- `name` (string, required) — The name of the user.
- `email` (string, required) — The email address of the user.
- `timezone` (string, required) — The timezone of the user. Defaults to `UTC` when the user has none set.