Meal Plan Management

Create Meal Plan

Calling any one of the Meal Planner API endpoints will first check whether the user has a meal plan assigned to them. If they do not, the meal plan will be automatically created for them. This means that the developer is not required to actively create a meal plan for the user.

The Meal Plan ID

Our API spec clearly shows that each endpoint has two versions - one with meal_plan_id and one without.

For example:

GET	/mealplan/v2/meal

and

GET	/mealplan/v2/:meal_plan_id/meal

The meal_plan_id section is optional - the endpoint will return the same result whether it is provided or not.

This is because Whisk supports a single meal plan for each user at this time. Multiple meal plans will be supported in future versions. Therefore, the meal_plan_id will be directly derived from the user’s ID. The user ID is extracted using the OAuth token provided with each endpoint header, as described above.

Get Meal Schedule

GET	/mealplan/v2/meal

This endpoint gets a list of meals for a specified time period. For more information, follow this link:https://api.whisk.com/spec/#/MealPlanAPI/GetMealSchedule2.

Manage Meal

Add Meal

POST	/mealplan/v2/meal

API spec: https://api.whisk.com/spec/#/MealPlanAPI/AddMeal2

Update Meal

PUT	/mealplan/v2/meal/:meal_id

API spec: https://api.whisk.com/spec/#/MealPlanAPI/UpdateMeal2

Delete Meal from Meal Plan

Removes a single meal from a specified meal plan.

Delete Meal from Meal Plan

DELETE https://graph.whisk.com/mealplan/v2/meal/:meal_id

Path Parameters

Name	Type	Description
meal_id	string	The meal identifier

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
meal_plan_id	string	The meal plan identifier

200 Upon successful deletion, the method returns an empty object.

{}

API spec: https://api.whisk.com/spec/#/MealPlanAPI/DeleteMeal2

Conflicts resolution

The on_conflict field allows meals to either replace or be inserted into daily meal slots when using the Add Meal or Update Meal endpoints. This helps the meal planner avoid any conflicting actions in case of adding or updating a meal into a daily slot which already is populated with a pre-existing meal.

Here are the following options for the on_conflict field:

• DAY_SLOT_CONFLICT_ACTION_REPLACE - the new meal will replace the existing one. This is the default option.

• DAY_SLOT_CONFLICT_ACTION_INSERT - the new meal will be inserted before the existing one, pushing it, along with all following meals, forward one daily slot. However, if you exceed the maximum number of daily meals (7), a 400 error response will be returned.

• DAY_SLOT_CONFLICT_ACTION_FAIL - the new meal will not be inserted into the daily slot, and a 400 error will be returned.

Get Meal Plan Recipes

To get the recipes for the meal plan just use the recipe search endpoint:

POST	/recipe/v2/search

More info here: https://api.whisk.com/spec/#/RecipeAPI/SearchRecipes