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# Set Active Dynamic Account

POST https://localhost:5000/v1/api/iserver/dynaccount
Content-Type: application/json

Set the active dynamic account.

Reference: https://ibkrcampus.com/docs/web-api/api-reference/trading/trading-accounts/set-dynamic-account

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — SSO bearer token.

## Servers

- `https://localhost:5000` (Client Portal Gateway, default)
- `https://api.ibkr.com` (Production)
- `https://qa.interactivebrokers.com` (Sandbox)

## Request

### Body (application/json)

This endpoint expects an object.

- `acctId` (string, required) — The account ID that should be set for future requests.

## Response

### 200

An array of objects detailing contract information.

- `set` (boolean, optional) — Confirms that the account change was set
- `acctId` (string, optional) — Confirms the account switched to.

## Errors

### 401 Unauthorized Error

Missing, invalid, or unparseable Authorization token.

- `status` (long, optional)
- `error` (string, optional)
- `message` (string, optional)

### 500 Internal Server Error

internal server error, returned when incoming request cannot be processed. It can sometimes include subset of bad requests. For example, wrong accountId passed and it can only be detected later in handling request. Error contains reason of the problem.

- `error` (string, optional) — error reason

### 503 Service Unavailable Error

service is unavailable. For example if request takes more than 10s due to some internal service unavailability, request aborted and this status returned

- `error` (string, optional) — error reason
- `statusCode` (long, optional) — mimic response status code

## Examples

**Request**

```json
{
  "acctId": "U1234567"
}
```

**Response**

```json
{
  "set": true,
  "acctId": "U2234567"
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python successfully-set-account
import requests

url = "https://localhost:5000/v1/api/iserver/dynaccount"

payload = { "acctId": "U1234567" }
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript successfully-set-account
const url = 'https://localhost:5000/v1/api/iserver/dynaccount';
const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: '{"acctId":"U1234567"}'
};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```

```go successfully-set-account
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://localhost:5000/v1/api/iserver/dynaccount"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"acctId\": \"U1234567\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby successfully-set-account
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://localhost:5000/v1/api/iserver/dynaccount")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"acctId\": \"U1234567\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```java successfully-set-account
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://localhost:5000/v1/api/iserver/dynaccount")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"acctId\": \"U1234567\"\n}")
  .asString();
```

```php successfully-set-account
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('POST', 'https://localhost:5000/v1/api/iserver/dynaccount', [
  'body' => '{
  "acctId": "U1234567"
}',
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer <token>',
    'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp successfully-set-account
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://localhost:5000/v1/api/iserver/dynaccount");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer <token>");
request.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
request.AddParameter("application/json", "{\n  \"acctId\": \"U1234567\"\n}", ParameterType.RequestBody);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift successfully-set-account
import Foundation

let headers = [
  "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
  "Content-Type": "application/json"
]
let parameters = ["acctId": "U1234567"] as [String : Any]

let postData = JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: parameters, options: [])

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://localhost:5000/v1/api/iserver/dynaccount")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "POST"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers
request.httpBody = postData as Data

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```