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# Introduction

### Welcome to the VAKA Online API :slight\_smile:

The VAKA Online API allows you as an integrator to manage different aspects of a VAKA system, giving you all the possibilities to extend your solution with VAKA access control features and beyond.

### General API Concepts

#### Event-Driven

The VAKA Online API is event-driven by design to provide a modern and scalable experience with high performance in mind, supporting the following patterns:

* Fetching required data (for example doors) from the API, allowing you to intially collect the current state and establish a baseline.
* Subscription on changes, where events is published to registered webhooks to signal state changes. This differs from a traditional and usually exhaustive "polling" approach - instead things are pushed to you when necessary.

**Asynchronous Request-Response Pattern**

* Requested operations through the API is typically accepted (returning 202 Accepted) and queued for execution as soon as possible, leaving you offloaded to continue with other things.
* Once the requested operation is completed, the result is delivered to you as webhook event.