## Update Credential

**patch** `/v5/credentials/{credential_id}`

Update an existing credential's properties including name, description, type, payload, and metadata.

### Path Parameters

- `credential_id: string`

### Body Parameters

- `credential_metadata: optional map[unknown]`

  Optional unencrypted credential_metadata

- `description: optional string`

  Optional description

- `name: optional string`

  User-friendly name for the credential

- `payload: optional string`

  The credential payload to be encrypted

- `type: optional string`

  Type of credential: key or json

### Returns

- `Credential object { id, created_at, created_by_identity_type, 7 more }`

  - `id: string`

  - `created_at: string`

  - `created_by_identity_type: string`

  - `created_by_user_id: string`

  - `credential_metadata: map[unknown]`

  - `description: string`

  - `name: string`

  - `type: string`

  - `updated_at: string`

  - `object: optional string`

### Example

```http
curl https://api.egp.scale.com/v5/credentials/$CREDENTIAL_ID \
    -X PATCH \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -H "x-api-key: $SGP_API_KEY" \
    -d '{}'
```

#### Response

```json
{
  "id": "id",
  "created_at": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z",
  "created_by_identity_type": "created_by_identity_type",
  "created_by_user_id": "created_by_user_id",
  "credential_metadata": {
    "foo": "bar"
  },
  "description": "description",
  "name": "name",
  "type": "type",
  "updated_at": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z",
  "object": "object"
}
```