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Enterprise Data Federation Service (EDFS)
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This API is a Technical Preview and is available for testing purposes only. Do not use in production.
POST https://api.bentley.com/edfs/itwins/{iTwinId}/systems

Create external system information and its credentials set.

You need to provide the SystemId (unique within the integration package) and the SystemType. You can retrieve them

You also need to provide the credentials. These are system properties (different for each system type). You can retrieve them

Authentication

Requires Authorization header with valid Bearer token for scope itwin-platform.

For more documentation on authorization and how to get access token visit OAUTH2 Authorization page.

Authorization

User must have the edfs_credmng permission assigned at the iTwin level or be an Organization Administrator for the Organization that owns a given iTwin.

Request parameters

Name
Required?
Description
iTwinId
Yes

The iTwin project ID

Request headers

Name
Required?
Description
Authorization
Yes

OAuth access token with itwin-platform scope

Accept
Yes

Setting to application/vnd.bentley.itwin-platform.v1+json is recommended.

Request body

SaveUserSystemCredentialDto

Name
Type
Required?
Description
name
String
No

The name of the system

systemId
String
No
systemType
String
No
credentials
Object
No

Example

json
{
    "name": "Development Sql Server",
    "systemId": "dev_sql_server",
    "systemType": "EDF.Sql",
    "credentials": {
        "Server": "dbserver.somewhere.com",
        "Database": "my-db",
        "UserId": "myuser",
        "Password": "P@$$w0rd",
        "IntegratedSecurity": "false",
        "CommandTimeout": "30"
    }
}

Response 201 Created

Created

json
{
    "id": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
    "systemName": "Development Sql Server",
    "systemId": "devsqlserver",
    "systemType": "EDF.Sql"
}

Response 401 Unauthorized

This response indicates that request lacks valid authentication credentials. Access token might not been provided, issued by the wrong issuer, does not have required scopes or request headers were malformed.

json
{
    "error": {
        "code": "HeaderNotFound",
        "message": "Header Authorization was not found in the request. Access denied."
    }
}

Response 403 Forbidden

The user has insufficient permissions for the requested operation.

json
{
    "error": {
        "code": "InsufficientPermissions",
        "message": "The user has insufficient permissions for the requested operation."
    }
}

Response 409 Conflict

This response indicates that the user tried to create a resource that already exists.

json
{
    "error": {
        "code": "SystemExists",
        "message": "A system with the same parameters already exists.",
        "details": [{
            "code": "InvalidValue",
            "message": "A system with the specified SystemId already exists.",
            "target": "SystemId"
        }]
    }
}

Response 422 Unprocessable Entity

The 422 (Unprocessable Entity) status code indicates that the request cannot be processed by the server due to a client error (e.g. malformed request syntax)

json
{
    "error": {
        "code": "InvalidSystemRequest",
        "message": "Cannot create System.",
        "details": [{
                "code": "InvalidValue",
                "message": "Provided System ID value contains invalid characters.",
                "target": "SystemId"
            },
            {
                "code": "MissingRequiredProperty",
                "message": "Required property Name is missing.",
                "target": "Name"
            },
            {
                "code": "InvalidValue",
                "message": "Provided System Type value exceeds maximum length 150.",
                "target": "SystemType"
            },
            {
                "code": "InvalidValue",
                "message": "Provided Credentials value contains invalid characters.",
                "target": "Credentials"
            },
            {
                "code": "InvalidValue",
                "message": "Provided iTwin ID value is not valid.",
                "target": "iTwinId"
            }
        ]
    }
}

Response 429 Too many requests

This response indicates that the user has sent too many requests in a given amount of time.

json
{
    "error": {
        "code": "TooManyRequests",
        "message": "More requests were received than the subscription rate-limit allows."
    }
}

Response headers

Name
Description
retry-after

The number of requests exceeds the rate-limit for the client subscription.

SaveUserSystemCredentialDto

Name
Type
Description
name
String

The name of the system

systemId
String
systemType
String
credentials
Object

SystemCredentialDto

Name
Type
Description
id
String
systemName
String

The friendly name of the external system

systemId
String
systemType
String

DetailedError

Contains error information and an array of more specific errors.

Name
Type
Description
code
String

One of a server-defined set of error codes.

message
String

A human-readable representation of the error.

target
String, null

The target of the error.

details

Optional array of more specific errors.

Detailed Error Response

Gives details for an error that occurred while handling the request. Note that clients MUST NOT assume that every failed request will produce an object of this schema, or that all of the properties in the response will be non-null, as the error may have prevented this response from being constructed.

Name
Type
Description
error

Error Detailed information.

Error

Contains error information.

Name
Type
Description
code
String

One of a server-defined set of error codes.

message
String

A human-readable representation of the error.

target
String, null

The target of the error.

Error Response

Gives details for an error that occurred while handling the request. Note that clients MUST NOT assume that every failed request will produce an object of this schema, or that all of the properties in the response will be non-null, as the error may have prevented this response from being constructed.

Name
Type
Description
error

Error information.

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