Interact with your reality data.

View, update, create, and delete reality data.


reality-data

# **This API is deprecated**

The Reality Data API is deprecated and will be removed in the future. Please use the [Reality Management API](/apis/reality-management/overview) instead.

## Shutdown date

This API was marked as deprecated on June 20th, 2023. Per [API Lifecycle](/apis/overview/lifecycle/#api-release-status) this API has entered Limited Support stage on June 20th, 2024.

We are planning to disable this API on **December 20th, 2024**.

## Reality Data API and Reality Management API differences

The Reality Management API covers the functionality of the Reality Data API and offers more. Some new features are:

- Additional filters are available when [querying](/apis/reality-management/operations/get-all-reality-data/) reality data.
- `Tags` is introduced as a new property to better identify reality data.
- `Classification` property becomes optional on creation of reality data.

The breaking changes are as follows:
- The `itwin-platform` scope should cover all needs to access reality data in read or write mode.
- `iTwinId` parameter is introduced and replaces `projectId`. This affects all operations.
- The reality data creation payload changes. `iTwinId` property is also moved in as a property inside the reality data body payload. Pay attention to the new structure of the reality data body payload. See [reality-management](/apis/reality-management/operations/create-reality-data/#request-body) documentation.
- Getting [Read](/apis/reality-management/operations/get-read-access-to-reality-data-container/) or [Write](/apis/reality-management/operations/get-write-access-to-reality-data-container/) container access is now split in two separate endpoints.

## How to use Reality Management API
To use the Reality Management API please specify `Accept: application/vnd.bentley.itwin-platform.v1+json` header with all the requests to [https://api.bentley.com/reality-management](https://api.bentley.com/reality-management) API. The [Reality Management tutorials](/apis/reality-management/tutorials/) provide further guidance.

Using the `itwin-platform` scope should be sufficient for any app. Make sure you review the scopes in your [Apps](/my-apps/).

If your application is using the `@itwin/reality-data-client` package, it should be updated to use version 1.1.0 or greater but it is recommend you update to the latest possible version. Note that the package has moved to the [reality-capture repository.](https://github.com/iTwin/reality-capture/tree/main/typescript/packages/reality-data-client)
- [@itwin/reality-data-client](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@itwin/reality-data-client) 

# Reality Data API

Reality modeling is the process of capturing the physical reality of an infrastructure asset, creating a representation of it, and maintaining it through continuous surveys. Reality models add real-world digital context to infrastructure projects. The Reality Data API provides the ability to retrieve information about the reality data that is associated with an infrastructure project.

## RealityData

The class defines properties that describe the content of the reality data and provides an access point to the data stored in a blob container, using Microsoft Azure Storage technologies. RealityData properties represent the descriptive data related to a reality data. In addition to this, reality data content is stored as files and folders within a blob container uniquely associated to this reality data. Individual files and folders follow, from the root of the reality data, a normal file tree structure.

A more detailed documentation on RealityData properties is available [here](/apis/reality-data/rd-details/).

## Projects

RealityData are bound to Projects. Projects are used to represent engineering projects for an infrastructure asset. iModels, reality data, and engineering documents can be associated with a project. The iTwins API is used to create or query project iTwins [See more information about the iTwins API here](/apis/itwins/overview/). The Access Control API is used to manage project team members and project roles [See more information about the Access Control API here](/apis/access-control-v2/overview/).

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Associates a [reality data](https://www.itwinjs.org/learning/glossary/#realitydata) to a project.

### Authentication

Requires `Authorization` header with valid Bearer token for scope `realitydata:modify`.

For more documentation on authorization and how to get access token visit [OAUTH2 Authorization](https://developer.bentley.com/apis/overview/authorization/) page.

### Authorization

User must be an Organization Administrator for the Organization that owns a given Project or have `RDS_CREATE | RDS_ASSIGN` permission assigned at the Project level.

An Organization Administrator must have at least one of the following roles assigned in User Management: Account Administrator, Co-Administrator, or CONNECT Services Administrator. For more information about User Management please visit our Bentley Communities [Licensing, Cloud, and Web Services](https://communities.bentley.com/communities/other_communities/licensing_cloud_and_web_services/w/wiki/50711/user-management-2-0) wiki page.

### Rate limits

All iTwin Platform API operations have a rate limit. For more documentation on that visit [Rate limits and quotas](https://developer.bentley.com/apis/overview/rate-limits/) page.

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associate-to-project

projectId

OAuth access token with scope `realitydata:modify`

Authorization

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

Accept

Reality data successfully associated to the project

default

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.

HeaderNotFound

application/json;InvalidAuthorizationScheme

InvalidAuthorizationScheme

InvalidHeaderValue

RequiredScopeMissing

Unauthorized

This response indicates that the reality data id or the project id was not found.

Invalid request to associate reality data to project. Please ensure that the request is valid.

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

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

retry-after

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Dissociates a [reality data](https://www.itwinjs.org/learning/glossary/#realitydata) from a project.

### Authentication

Requires `Authorization` header with valid Bearer token for scope `realitydata:modify`.

For more documentation on authorization and how to get access token visit [OAUTH2 Authorization](https://developer.bentley.com/apis/overview/authorization/) page.

### Authorization

User must be an Organization Administrator for the Organization that owns a given Project or have `RDS_CREATE | RDS_ASSIGN` permission assigned at the Project level.

An Organization Administrator must have at least one of the following roles assigned in User Management: Account Administrator, Co-Administrator, or CONNECT Services Administrator. For more information about User Management please visit our Bentley Communities [Licensing, Cloud, and Web Services](https://communities.bentley.com/communities/other_communities/licensing_cloud_and_web_services/w/wiki/50711/user-management-2-0) wiki page.

### Rate limits

All iTwin Platform API operations have a rate limit. For more documentation on that visit [Rate limits and quotas](https://developer.bentley.com/apis/overview/rate-limits/) page.

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dissociate-from-project

This response indicates that the association between the reality data and project was not found.

Invalid request to dissociate reality data from project. Please ensure that the request is valid.

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Retrieves the list of projects associated to the specified [reality data](https://www.itwinjs.org/learning/glossary/#realitydata).

When no project is associated to the reality data, an empty list is returned.

Similarly, if the reality data does not exist, an empty list is returned. No validation is made about the existence or validity of the reality data.

### Authentication

Requires `Authorization` header with valid Bearer token for scope `realitydata:read`.

For more documentation on authorization and how to get access token visit [OAUTH2 Authorization](https://developer.bentley.com/apis/overview/authorization/) page.

### Authorization

User must be an Organization Administrator for the Organization that owns a given Project or have `RDS_USE` permission assigned at the Project level.

An Organization Administrator must have at least one of the following roles assigned in User Management: Account Administrator, Co-Administrator, or CONNECT Services Administrator. For more information about User Management please visit our Bentley Communities [Licensing, Cloud, and Web Services](https://communities.bentley.com/communities/other_communities/licensing_cloud_and_web_services/w/wiki/50711/user-management-2-0) wiki page.

### Rate limits

All iTwin Platform API operations have a rate limit. For more documentation on that visit [Rate limits and quotas](https://developer.bentley.com/apis/overview/rate-limits/) page.

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get-reality-data-projects

OAuth access token with scope `realitydata:read`

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Retrieves the container's link for an instance of [reality data](https://www.itwinjs.org/learning/glossary/#realitydata).

A container is where the reality data itself (a point cloud, a mesh, a collection of images, ...) is stored.

The container's link will allow you to upload/download data directly to this container.

A [reality data](https://www.itwinjs.org/learning/glossary/#realitydata) is always associated to exactly one container.

The `projectId` parameter is optional, but it is preferable to provide it, because the permissions used to access the container are determined from the project. With no project specified, the operation can succeed in some cases (e.g. the user is the reality data's owner), but we recommend to provide a `projectId`.

In future API versions, containers could be hosted in in different cloud providers, but for now, only Azure cloud is supported.

To store or retrieve data from a container, refer to the [Azure Blob Storage documentation](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/).

### Authentication

Requires `Authorization` header with valid Bearer token for scope `realitydata:read`.

For more documentation on authorization and how to get access token visit [OAUTH2 Authorization](https://developer.bentley.com/apis/overview/authorization/) page.

### Authorization

User must be an Organization Administrator for the Organization that owns a given Project or have `RDS_USE` permission for read access and `RDS_MANAGE` permission for write access assigned at the Project level.

An Organization Administrator must have at least one of the following roles assigned in User Management: Account Administrator, Co-Administrator, or CONNECT Services Administrator. For more information about User Management please visit our Bentley Communities Licensing, Cloud, and Web Services wiki page.

### Rate limits

All iTwin Platform API operations have a rate limit. For more documentation on that visit [Rate limits and quotas](https://developer.bentley.com/apis/overview/rate-limits/) page.

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get-reality-data-container

Required access on the container (Read or Write)

access

This response indicates that the reality data id was not found.

Invalid request to get the container of a reality data. Please ensure that the request is valid.

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Creates a [reality data](https://www.itwinjs.org/learning/glossary/#realitydata).

As shown in the request section below, you must provide a request body. 

You MUST provide the `displayName`, `classification` and `type` properties. 

Valid values for the `classification` property are: `Terrain`, `Imagery`, `Pinned`, `Model`, `Undefined`. For more details on each value, see [Reality Data Properties](https://developer.bentley.com/apis/reality-data/rd-details/) in documentation.

We recommend specifying a `projectId` in the request body, as it is used to choose the data center where the reality data is stored (the same as the project). If no `projectId` can be provided, the default data center of the organization is selected.

After creation, the reality data will be associated to the specified project.

### Authentication

Requires `Authorization` header with valid Bearer token for scope `realitydata:modify`.

For more documentation on authorization and how to get access token visit [OAUTH2 Authorization](https://developer.bentley.com/apis/overview/authorization/) page.

### Authorization

User must be an Organization Administrator for the Organization that owns a given Project or have `RDS_CREATE` permission assigned at the Project level.

An Organization Administrator must have at least one of the following roles assigned in User Management: Account Administrator, Co-Administrator, or CONNECT Services Administrator. For more information about User Management please visit our Bentley Communities [Licensing, Cloud, and Web Services](https://communities.bentley.com/communities/other_communities/licensing_cloud_and_web_services/w/wiki/50711/user-management-2-0) wiki page.

### Rate limits

All iTwin Platform API operations have a rate limit. For more documentation on that visit [Rate limits and quotas](https://developer.bentley.com/apis/overview/rate-limits/) page.

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create-reality-data

This response indicates that user does not have required permissions to create a reality data.

Invalid request to create reality data. Please ensure that the request is valid.

application/json;InvalidRealityDataRequest

InvalidRealityDataRequest

MissingRequestBody

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Deletes a [reality data](https://www.itwinjs.org/learning/glossary/#realitydata).

To delete a reality data, it must be associated to only one (or zero) project. If it has more associated projects, first [dissociate](https://developer.bentley.com/apis/reality-data/operations/dissociate-from-project/) the projects.

### Authentication

Requires `Authorization` header with valid Bearer token for scope `realitydata:modify`.

For more documentation on authorization and how to get access token visit [OAUTH2 Authorization](https://developer.bentley.com/apis/overview/authorization/) page.

### Authorization

User must be an Organization Administrator for the Organization that owns a given Project or have `RDS_MANAGE` permission assigned at the Project level.

An Organization Administrator must have at least one of the following roles assigned in User Management: Account Administrator, Co-Administrator, or CONNECT Services Administrator. For more information about User Management please visit our Bentley Communities [Licensing, Cloud, and Web Services](https://communities.bentley.com/communities/other_communities/licensing_cloud_and_web_services/w/wiki/50711/user-management-2-0) wiki page.

### Rate limits

All iTwin Platform API operations have a rate limit. For more documentation on that visit [Rate limits and quotas](https://developer.bentley.com/apis/overview/rate-limits/) page.

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delete-reality-data

This response indicates that the specified reality data was not found.

Invalid request to delete reality data. Please ensure that the request is valid.

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Retrieves a list of [reality data](https://www.itwinjs.org/learning/glossary/#realitydata) instances belonging to the specified project.

The retrieved instances are those for which you have the required access rights, relative to the specified project. 

The `projectId` is optional. If you don't provide it, the retrieved [reality data](https://www.itwinjs.org/learning/glossary/#realitydata) instances will be relative to general access rights provided by your organization. These rights are usually more restrictive, so we recommend using the `projectId` parameter for exhaustive results.

### Notes

The `Prefer` header can be used to specify how much result metadata is desired by the client. The `Prefer` request header field is used to indicate that particular server behaviors are preferred by the client but are not required for successful completion of the request.

This operation supports `"return=representation"` and `"return=minimal"` preferences.

The `"return=representation"` preference indicates that the client prefers that the server include an entity representing the current state of the resource in the response to a successful request, i.e., all properties are included in the response.
The `"return=minimal"` preference indicates that the client wishes the server to return only a minimal response to a successful request. This is the default preference if `Prefer` header is not specified.

### Authentication

Requires `Authorization` header with valid Bearer token for scope `realitydata:read`.

For more documentation on authorization and how to get access token visit [OAUTH2 Authorization](https://developer.bentley.com/apis/overview/authorization/) page.

### Authorization

User must be an Organization Administrator for the Organization that owns a given Project or must have access to context.

An Organization Administrator must have at least one of the following roles assigned in User Management: Account Administrator, Co-Administrator, or CONNECT Services Administrator. For more information about User Management please visit our Bentley Communities Licensing, Cloud, and Web Services wiki page.


### Rate limits

All iTwin Platform API operations have a rate limit. For more documentation on that visit [Rate limits and quotas](https://developer.bentley.com/apis/overview/rate-limits/) page.

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get-all-reality-data

Id of project. The operation gets all reality data in this project.

Parameter that enables continuing to the next page of the previous paged query. This must be passed exactly as it is in the response body's _links.next property. If this is specified and $top is omitted, the next page will be the same size as the previous page.

continuationToken

The number of reality data to get in each page. Max 500, but 100 is the default if this parameter is not included.

$top

Extent of the area to search, delimited by southwest and northeast coordinates. Extent values are specified in this format: SouthwestCorner_Longitude, SouthwestCorner_Latitude, NortheastCorner_Longitude, NortheastCorner_Latitude. E.g. to get all reality data in an area around Exton, PA, provide the following extent parameter: extent=-75.637679,40.032871,-75.633647,40.032771

extent

Optional. Selected preferred representation.

Prefer

minimal

representation

Invalid request to get reality data. Please ensure that the request is valid.

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Retrieves the metadata of a [reality data](https://www.itwinjs.org/learning/glossary/#realitydata).

The `projectId` parameter is optional, but it is preferable to provide it, because the permissions used to access the collection of reality data are determined from the project. With no project specified, the desired reality data can be retrieved (e.g. the caller is the owner), but it's more likely to get the expected result if you provide the `projectId`.

### Authentication

Requires `Authorization` header with valid Bearer token for scope `realitydata:read`.

For more documentation on authorization and how to get access token visit [OAUTH2 Authorization](https://developer.bentley.com/apis/overview/authorization/) page.

### Authorization

User must be an Organization Administrator for the Organization that owns a given Project or have `RDS_USE` permission assigned at the Project level.

An Organization Administrator must have at least one of the following roles assigned in User Management: Account Administrator, Co-Administrator, or CONNECT Services Administrator. For more information about User Management please visit our Bentley Communities [Licensing, Cloud, and Web Services](https://communities.bentley.com/communities/other_communities/licensing_cloud_and_web_services/w/wiki/50711/user-management-2-0) wiki page.

### Rate limits

All iTwin Platform API operations have a rate limit. For more documentation on that visit [Rate limits and quotas](https://developer.bentley.com/apis/overview/rate-limits/) page.

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get-reality-data-details

Invalid request to get reality data details

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Updates the metadata of a [reality data](https://www.itwinjs.org/learning/glossary/#realitydata).

The `projectId` parameter is optional, but it is preferable to provide it, because the permissions used to allow the modification of the reality data are determined from the project.

With no project specified, it may be possible to modify the reality data (e.g. the caller is the owner), but more permissions may be granted when the `projectId` is provided.

### Authentication

Requires `Authorization` header with valid Bearer token for scope `realitydata:modify`.

For more documentation on authorization and how to get access token visit [OAUTH2 Authorization](https://developer.bentley.com/apis/overview/authorization/) page.

### Authorization

User must be an Organization Administrator for the Organization that owns a given Project or have `RDS_MANAGE` permission assigned at the Project level.

An Organization Administrator must have at least one of the following roles assigned in User Management: Account Administrator, Co-Administrator, or CONNECT Services Administrator. For more information about User Management please visit our Bentley Communities [Licensing, Cloud, and Web Services](https://communities.bentley.com/communities/other_communities/licensing_cloud_and_web_services/w/wiki/50711/user-management-2-0) wiki page.

### Rate limits

All iTwin Platform API operations have a rate limit. For more documentation on that visit [Rate limits and quotas](https://developer.bentley.com/apis/overview/rate-limits/) page.

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update-reality-data

A reality data instance with the fields that should be updated.  ReadOnly fields should not be included.  

Overview - Reality Data | iTwin Platform

This tutorial is an introduction to RealityData API, explaining the basic workflows.