> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.generalvalidation.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Run one Validation Test

> Requires the GV.APIContributor application role, or a higher role (Owner > Contributor > Reader).

API · Runs

POST `/api/v1/validation-tests/{validationTestUuid}/run`

Requires the GV.APIContributor application role, or a higher role (Owner > Contributor > Reader).

Operation ID · submit\_validation\_test\_run

## Request example

```bash theme={null}
curl --request POST \
  --url 'https://api.generalvalidation.com/api/v1/validation-tests/99999999-9999-4999-8999-999999999999/run' \
  --header 'Accept: application/json' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <access-token>' \
  --header 'Idempotency-Key: <unique-idempotency-key>'
```

## Authentication and access

* **Required role:** GV.APIContributor
* **Data classification:** metadata
* **Side effects:** configurationWrite, validationExecution, customerCompute

Use an authentication scheme declared below. Ordinary workloads use application tokens; signed-in users use delegated tokens and Organization membership. Activation and invitation acceptance require a person, and execution callbacks require their registered identity.

* Microsoft Entra delegated user token
* Microsoft Entra application token

## Parameters

### validationTestUuid

path Required

Opaque Validation Test UUID.

`string (uuid)`

Opaque Validation Test UUID.

### Idempotency-Key

header Required

Required caller-chosen retry identity. Use 1-128 visible ASCII characters and reuse it only for an exact retry of this request.

`string`

minimum length: 1 · maximum length: 128

## Responses

This guide summarizes response status codes and headers. Retrieve the deployed, authenticated OpenAPI document for the exact response body schemas and examples. The API also provides an authenticated Swagger UI; opening it in a browser does not automatically attach a bearer token.

Error responses use `application/problem+json`. The response's stable `code` and `type` map to the [error-code reference](/errors).

### 200

An exact replay returned the current terminal Run.

#### Headers

* **Location:** The terminal Run resource. `string`

### 202

Validation Test Run accepted.

#### Headers

* **Location:** Pollable resource for the accepted operation. `string`
* **Retry-After:** Wait five seconds before polling again. `integer`Allowed values`5`

### 400

The request cannot be satisfied in the current state.

### 401

A valid Microsoft Entra bearer token is required.

### 402

The organization entitlement does not permit this mutation.

### 403

The authenticated principal does not have the required role.

### 404

The resource does not exist in this tenant.

### 409

The operation conflicts with current resource or Azure state.

### 422

The request is syntactically valid but semantically invalid.

### 429

The bounded application request rate was exceeded.

#### Headers

* **Retry-After:** Seconds to wait before retrying. `integer`minimum: 1

### 503

A required dependency is temporarily unavailable.

#### Headers

* **Retry-After:** Seconds to wait before retrying. `integer`minimum: 1