generated: '2026-09-10'
method: searched
source: >-
  openapi/forsta-decipher-rest-api-openapi.yml,
  openapi/forsta-sample-marketplace-partner-setup-openapi.yml, and
  https://docs.developer.focusvision.com/docs/decipher/api
summary: >-
  Forsta publishes no developer sandbox in the Stripe sense - there is no test-mode key prefix, no
  hosted sandbox tenant a developer can self-provision, and no published fixture or magic-value
  set. What exists is per-survey test tooling inside a real instance, plus a named staging
  environment on the Sample Marketplace partner contract. Nothing below is invented; where a value
  would normally be published, the honest finding is that it is not.
test_live_separation:
  key_prefix: none
  detail: >-
    A Decipher API key is a single 64-character credential with no mode marker. Isolation is done
    by restricting a key (permitted calls, permitted methods, forced parameter values, IP network,
    expiry) or by creating a dedicated API user account with access to a subset of projects -
    not by a test/live switch.
survey_test_mode:
  - operationId: getSurveyTestToken
    path: /surveys/{survey}/test/token
    description: Returns a survey test URL token so a survey can be exercised before it is launched.
  - operationId: createSurveySst
    path: /surveys/{survey}/sst
    description: Runs simulated data (the "Simulated Data" tag) against a survey.
  - operationId: createSurveyEvaluate
    path: /surveys/{survey}/evaluate
    description: >-
      Evaluates against a survey; the spec documents a test mode in which the data is not saved but
      the calculations still run.
  - operationId: getSurveyStateLiveWarnings
    path: /surveys/{survey}/state/live/warnings
    description: Pre-launch warnings - the dry-run rehearsal for createSurveyStateLive.
staging_environments:
  - api: Sample Marketplace Partner Setup API
    url: https://eks.us-west-2.fvdev.net/smp-partner-service
    label: Staging Environment
    note: Declared as a named server in the published spec, alongside the production server.
  - api: Panel Management Integration / Community APIs
    url: https://staging.panel.dev.focusvision.com/
    label: default value of the {server} path variable in the published spec
    note: >-
      This is the spec's default server VARIABLE value, not an open sandbox - callers substitute
      their own instance domain. Recorded because a reader of the raw spec will otherwise take it
      for a callable base URL.
magic_test_values: none published
test_clock: none
fixtures: none