Document Types

Document types classify documents into categories (e.g. Invoice, Contract, Receipt). They support the full CRUD lifecycle and permission management.

Models

`DocumentType`

Field	Description
`id`	Primary key
`slug`	URL-safe identifier
`name`	Display name
`document_count`	Number of assigned documents

`DocumentTypeDraft`

Field	Description
`name`	Display name (required on save)
`owner`	Owner user id

Fetch one

document_type = await paperless.document_types(4)
print(document_type.name)            # "Invoice"
print(document_type.document_count)  # 17

Iterate

async for dt in paperless.document_types:
    print(dt.id, dt.name)

# Map id → name
type_map = {dt.id: dt.name async for dt in paperless.document_types.reduce()}

Create

draft = paperless.document_types.draft()
draft.name = "Invoice"

pk = await paperless.document_types.save(draft)
print(pk)  # primary key of the new document type

Update

dt = await paperless.document_types(4)
dt.name = "Invoice (updated)"
changed = await paperless.document_types.update(dt)

Delete

dt = await paperless.document_types(4)
deleted = await paperless.document_types.delete(dt)

Permissions

paperless.document_types.request_permissions = True
dt = await paperless.document_types(4)

print(dt.owner)        # owner user id
print(dt.permissions)  # PermissionTable

paperless.document_types.request_permissions = False

See Permissions for details on reading and modifying permission sets.