A token is an access token that enables you to communicate with the API. When you are granted access to Lionbridge Content API, you will be given a client id and secret pair for each of your connector instances. Use the Lionbridge's identity endpoint and client credential workflow to obtain access token. Please note that the client id and secret that grant you access to Content API staging environment do not give you access to Content API production environment. Lionbridge will provide you with new client id and secret to work in Content API production environment.

Note: if as early clients of Content API v2 Staging environment you had been given temporary access token, you should switch to the client credential workflow and use client id and secret to obtain access token. The temporary access token you got do not work in Content API production environment, and will stop working in staging environment in near future. Please contact Lionbridge support if you have not received client id and secret to replace your temporary access token.

A translation provider provides translation services. Lionbridge support team will setup translation provider(s) that you have access to. Lionbridge Content API delivers translation jobs to the translation provider that you specify.

A translation job is a container of translation requests that is sent as a single unit to the translation provider.

A translation request is a content item for translation. It can be either:

• an asset (file)
• a set of key-value pairs (KVP), typically representing field names and field values of a content item in your content system

A translation request also specifies the source language it is in and the target language it needs to be translated into,

One more more translation requests are packaged into a single translation job for sending to a translation provider.

A source file can be a file thatyou submit to Lionbridge to translate, a support file that helps translators to translate your content, or a translation memory update file you submit to Lionbridge. Content API itself does not have any limit on the type of files that it accepts, but individual translation provider may have limit on the types of files that it can work with.

A file contains the translated (target) content that Lionbridge retrieves from the translation provider and then returns to the Connector.

Translation content is a key-value pair (KVP) that has been translated by the translation provider. If you submit a Translation content as KVP then you would retrieve the translation of it as Translation content.

A status update communicates the progress of a job through the following states:

Job Statuses

In Content API, translation jobs can have the following statuses:

Request Statuses

Translation requests in a job can have the following statuses: