MergeFork - Transformations

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POST https://api.bentley.com/transformations/configurations/mergefork

MergeFork configuration is deprecated. Please use MergeIModel configuration instead.

This endpoint is used to create a configuration for MergeFork transformation.

MergeFork transformation should be used for synchronizing changes in the "reverse" (fork -> main) direction with Forks created using one of CreateFork, FilterIModel, FilterSubCategories, FilterByViewDefinition transformations. Forks created using "Fork iModel" operation in iModels API should be synchronized using MergeIModel transformation.

Forked iModel must have at least one new changeset with modifications for merging to succeed.

Source and target (project & iModel) properties mark the data flow direction. That said MergeFork configuration's sourceProjectId/IModelId and targetProjectId/IModelId properties must be switched places as compared to the configuration that was used to fork the iModel.

{
    "sourceProjectId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", // forked iModel's project id
    "sourceIModelId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",  // forked iModel's id
    "targetProjectId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", // main iModel's project id
    "targetIModelId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",  // main iModel's id
    "transformParameters": {
        "configurationId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" // id of a configuration that was used to create the fork
    }

Explanation of specific properties configuration.

configurationId - required property that specifies configuration id, which was used to fork the main iModel.

Running consecutive transformations for this configuration will keep synchronizing newly added changes from fork iModel back into the main iModel.

In addition to exported data, the transformer will also push some additional metadata. This metadata contains:

BisCore:RepositoryLink and BisCore:ExternalSource elements that mark the source where the data was imported from.
A "Scope" BisCore:ExternalSourceAspect that contains Synchronization changeset metadata that is needed by the transformation service to process any later changes correctly.
Element provenance information (BisCore:ExternalSourceAspects) for elements that do not have federation guids.

Differently from other transformation types, MergeFork transformation synchronizes changes in a "reverse" direction. This means that the metadata will be pushed to the source (fork) iModel instead of the target iModel.

Limitations:

This API does not support combining iModels that have conflicting dynamic ECSchemas. Conflicting ECSchemas are two ECSchemas that have the same name, but have at least one difference such as: different aliases or any difference between EC object items (EC schema contents). For example, "CustomSchema" in iModel "A" has an ECClass "MyClass", while "CustomSchema" in iModel "B" doesn't have an ECClass "MyClass". In case of ECSchema conflict, transformation will fail with an error message. Those error messages might vary depending on the conflict that was encountered. Transformation status and it's error message can be retrieved by sending GET transformation request.
Forking and merging workflows do not support modifying the same entity in multiple iModels. There is no provided functionality to see conflicting changes or to resolve them, so the transformation will use "last synchronization wins" strategy automatically. As a result, only the most recent synchronized changes made to an element will be retained, overwriting updates from earlier forks. E.g. in scenario where same element is modified in two forks, and then those both forks are merged into main iModel, changes in last synchronized fork will override previously synchronized changes.

Note: Creating a configuration does not run the transformation. To run the transformation, please see transformations reference.

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

You must have imodels_write assigned at the target project level and imodels_read assigned at the source project level within related configuration. If permissions at the project level are not configured, then you must have same assigned at the iModel level.

Alternatively, you must be an Organization Administrator for the Organization that owns a given project the iModel belongs to.

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 see 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 page.

Request

Request headers

Authorization

Yes

OAuth access token with itwin-platform scope

Yes

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

Request body

Create MergeFork configuration

transformName

String

Yes

User friendly name of the transformation.

sourceProjectId

String

Yes

ProjectId of the source iModel.

sourceIModelId

String

Yes

ID of the source iModel.

targetProjectId

String

Yes

ProjectId of the target iModel.

targetIModelId

String

Yes

ID of the target iModel.

comment

String

Yes

Comment for the changeset created after transformation.

transformParameters

TParams_MergeFork_Create

Yes

Merge fork configuration transform parameters

Example

json

{
    "transformName": "Example name",
    "sourceProjectId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
    "sourceIModelId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
    "targetProjectId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
    "targetIModelId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
    "comment": "Example comment",
    "transformParameters": {
        "configurationId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
    }
}

Response

Response 201 Created

Returns the created configuration.

json

{
    "configuration": {
        "id": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
        "transformName": "Transformation name",
        "comment": "comment",
        "createdDateTime": "2021-08-02T14:51:33.6133333Z",
        "modifiedDateTime": "2021-08-02T14:52:33.6133333Z",
        "transformType": "MergeFork",
        "transformParameters": {
            "_links": {
                "configuration": {
                    "href": "https://api.bentley.com/transformations/configurations/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
                }
            }
        },
        "_links": {
            "sourceIModel": {
                "href": "https://api.bentley.com/imodels/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
            },
            "targetIModel": {
                "href": "https://api.bentley.com/imodels/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
            },
            "sourceProject": {
                "href": "https://api.bentley.com/itwins/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
            },
            "targetProject": {
                "href": "https://api.bentley.com/itwins/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
            }
        }
    }
}

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 404 Not Found

This response indicates that the provided Project or iModel could not be found.

json

{
    "error": {
        "code": "IModelNotFound",
        "message": "Requested IModel is not available."
    }
}

Response 422 Unprocessable Entity

Given data is invalid.

json

{
    "error": {
        "code": "MissingRequestBody",
        "message": "Request body was not provided."
    }
}

Response 429 Too many requests

This response indicates that the client sent more requests than allowed by this API for the current tier of the client.

json

{
    "error": {
        "code": "RateLimitExceeded",
        "message": "The client sent more requests than allowed by this API for the current tier of the client."
    }
}

Response headers

retry-after

Number of seconds to wait until client is allowed to make more requests.

Definitions

Create MergeFork configuration

Data needed to create MergeFork configuration.

transformName

String

User friendly name of the transformation.

sourceProjectId

String

ProjectId of the source iModel.

sourceIModelId

String

ID of the source iModel.

targetProjectId

String

ProjectId of the target iModel.

targetIModelId

String

ID of the target iModel.

comment

String

Comment for the changeset created after transformation.

transformParameters

TParams_MergeFork_Create

Merge fork configuration transform parameters

json

{
    "type": "object",
    "title": "Create MergeFork configuration",
    "description": "Data needed to create MergeFork configuration.",
    "required": [
        "comment",
        "sourceProjectId",
        "sourceIModelId",
        "targetProjectId",
        "targetIModelId",
        "transformName",
        "transformParameters"
    ],
    "properties": {
        "transformName": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "User friendly name of the transformation.",
            "example": "Example name"
        },
        "sourceProjectId": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "ProjectId of the source iModel.",
            "example": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
        },
        "sourceIModelId": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "ID of the source iModel.",
            "example": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
        },
        "targetProjectId": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "ProjectId of the target iModel.",
            "example": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
        },
        "targetIModelId": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "ID of the target iModel.",
            "example": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
        },
        "comment": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Comment for the changeset created after transformation.",
            "example": "Example comment"
        },
        "transformParameters": {
            "description": "Merge fork configuration transform parameters",
            "$ref": "#/components/schemas/TParams_MergeFork_Create"
        }
    },
    "additionalProperties": false
}

Merge fork configuration

configurationId

String

Required property that specifies configuration id, which was used to connect duplicate iModel to the main iModel.

json

{
    "type": "object",
    "title": "Merge fork configuration",
    "properties": {
        "configurationId": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Required property that specifies configuration id, which was used to connect duplicate iModel to the main iModel."
        }
    },
    "required": [
        "configurationId"
    ],
    "additionalProperties": false
}

Merge fork configuration transform parameters links

configuration

Link

json

{
    "type": "object",
    "title": "Merge fork configuration transform parameters links",
    "properties": {
        "configuration": {
            "$ref": "#/components/schemas/Link"
        }
    },
    "required": [
        "configuration"
    ],
    "additionalProperties": false
}

Merge fork configuration transform parameters

_links

TParams_MergeFork_Configuration_Links

json

{
    "type": "object",
    "title": "Merge fork configuration transform parameters",
    "properties": {
        "_links": {
            "$ref": "#/components/schemas/TParams_MergeFork_Configuration_Links"
        }
    },
    "required": [
        "_links"
    ],
    "additionalProperties": false
}

Merge fork configuration

configuration

Configuration_MergeFork

Merge fork configuration object.

json

{
    "type": "object",
    "title": "Merge fork configuration",
    "required": [
        "configuration"
    ],
    "properties": {
        "configuration": {
            "description": "Merge fork configuration object.",
            "$ref": "#/components/schemas/Configuration_MergeFork"
        }
    },
    "additionalProperties": false
}

Merge fork configuration properties

String

ID of the configuration.

transformName

String

User friendly name of the transformation.

comment

String, null

Comment for the changeset created after transformation.

createdDateTime

Date-time

Time the configuration was created at.

modifiedDateTime

Date-time

Time the configuration was last modified at.

transformType

String

Type of the transformation.

transformParameters

TParams_MergeFork_Configuration

Merge fork configuration transform parameters.

_links

Links_ConfigurationData

Links to a configuration data.

json

{
    "type": "object",
    "title": "Merge fork configuration properties",
    "required": [
        "id",
        "transformName",
        "comment",
        "createdDateTime",
        "modifiedDateTime",
        "transformParameters",
        "transformType",
        "_links"
    ],
    "properties": {
        "id": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "ID of the configuration.",
            "example": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
        },
        "transformName": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "User friendly name of the transformation.",
            "example": "Example name"
        },
        "comment": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Comment for the changeset created after transformation.",
            "nullable": true,
            "example": "Example comment"
        },
        "createdDateTime": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Time the configuration was created at.",
            "format": "date-time",
            "example": "0000-00-00T00:00:00.0000000Z"
        },
        "modifiedDateTime": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Time the configuration was last modified at.",
            "format": "date-time",
            "example": "0000-00-00T00:00:00.0000000Z"
        },
        "transformType": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Type of the transformation.",
            "example": "FilterIModel"
        },
        "transformParameters": {
            "description": "Merge fork configuration transform parameters.",
            "$ref": "#/components/schemas/TParams_MergeFork_Configuration"
        },
        "_links": {
            "description": "Links to a configuration data.",
            "$ref": "#/components/schemas/Links_ConfigurationData"
        }
    },
    "additionalProperties": false
}

Links

sourceIModel

Link

Link to a source iModel.

targetIModel

Link

Link to a target iModel.

sourceProject

Link

Link to a source project.

targetProject

Link

Link to a target project.

json

{
    "type": "object",
    "title": "Links",
    "properties": {
        "sourceIModel": {
            "description": "Link to a source iModel.",
            "$ref": "#/components/schemas/Link"
        },
        "targetIModel": {
            "description": "Link to a target iModel.",
            "$ref": "#/components/schemas/Link"
        },
        "sourceProject": {
            "description": "Link to a source project.",
            "$ref": "#/components/schemas/Link"
        },
        "targetProject": {
            "description": "Link to a target project.",
            "$ref": "#/components/schemas/Link"
        }
    },
    "additionalProperties": false
}

Link

href

String

Link to a resource.

json

{
    "type": "object",
    "title": "Link",
    "properties": {
        "href": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Link to a resource."
        }
    },
    "additionalProperties": false
}

DetailedError

Contains error information and an array of more specific errors.

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

Error[]

Optional array of more specific errors.

json

{
    "type": "object",
    "description": "Contains error information and an array of more specific errors.",
    "properties": {
        "code": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "One of a server-defined set of error codes."
        },
        "message": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "A human-readable representation of the error."
        },
        "target": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The target of the error.",
            "nullable": true
        },
        "details": {
            "type": "array",
            "description": "Optional array of more specific errors.",
            "items": {
                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/Error"
            }
        }
    },
    "required": [
        "code",
        "message",
        "details"
    ],
    "additionalProperties": true
}

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.

error

DetailedError

Error Detailed information.

json

{
    "type": "object",
    "title": "Detailed Error Response",
    "description": "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.",
    "properties": {
        "error": {
            "description": "Error Detailed information.",
            "$ref": "#/components/schemas/DetailedError"
        }
    },
    "required": [
        "error"
    ],
    "additionalProperties": false
}

Error

Contains error information.

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.

json

{
    "type": "object",
    "description": "Contains error information.",
    "properties": {
        "code": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "One of a server-defined set of error codes."
        },
        "message": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "A human-readable representation of the error."
        },
        "target": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The target of the error.",
            "nullable": true
        }
    },
    "required": [
        "code",
        "message"
    ],
    "additionalProperties": true
}

Error Response

error

Error

Error information.

json

{
    "type": "object",
    "title": "Error Response",
    "description": "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.",
    "properties": {
        "error": {
            "description": "Error information.",
            "$ref": "#/components/schemas/Error"
        }
    },
    "required": [
        "error"
    ],
    "additionalProperties": false
}

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