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POST https://qa-api.bentley.com/export/connections

Create a ExportConnection that describes which iModel's data is to be exported.

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.

Associated entities

A connection is linked with an iModel. An iModel ID is required to be set when creating a ExportConnection.

Request headers

Name
Required?
Description
Content-Type
No

Indicates request body content type. Supported media type is application/json.

Authorization
Yes

OAuth access token with itwin-platform scope

Accept
Yes

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

Request body

Export Connection (create)

Name
Type
Required?
Description
authenticationType
No
displayName
String
No
iModelId
String
Yes

Example

json
{
    "displayName": "30",
    "iModelId": "7dbd531d-6967-47b2-8945-a722a437ad7a",
    "authenticationType": "User"
}

Response 201 Created

Connection successfully created.

json
{
    "connection": {
        "id": "fc226d0d-1647-48d7-8c11-f1f74f2d9808",
        "displayName": "30",
        "iModelId": "7dbd531d-6967-47b2-8945-a722a437ad7a",
        "iTwinId": "7dbd531d-6967-47b2-8945-a722a437ad7a",
        "authenticationType": "User",
        "_links": {
            "iModel": {
                "href": "https://api.bentley.com/imodels/5db42812-ebb8-4c58-98a4-2eaa99e0d8b6"
            },
            "iTwin": {
                "href": "https://api.bentley.com/itwins/4tb42812-ebb8-4c58-98a4-2eaa99e0d8b6"
            },
            "lastRun": {
                "href": "https://api.bentley.com/export/connections/fc226d0d-1647-48d7-8c11-f1f74f2d9808/runs/de626d0d-1647-48d7-8c11-f1f74f2d4523"
            }
        }
    }
}

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 422 Unprocessable Entity

Invalid request to create connection. Request payload might be missing some of the required properties.

json
{
    "error": {
        "code": "InvalidExportConnectionRequest",
        "message": "Cannot perform operation.",
        "details": [{
                "code": "InvalidRequestBody",
                "message": "Error parsing JSON, malformed JSON."
            },
            {
                "code": "MissingRequiredProperty",
                "message": "imodelId was not provided.",
                "target": "imodelId"
            },
            {
                "code": "InvalidValue",
                "message": "Provided imodelId value is not valid.",
                "target": "imodelId"
            }
        ]
    }
}

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

Name
Description
retry-after

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

Link

Name
Type
Description
href
String

Export Connection (create)

Name
Type
Description
authenticationType
displayName
String
iModelId
String

Authentication Type

One of 'User' or 'Service'

Name
Type
Description
User
String
Service
String

Connection Links

Name
Type
Description
iModel
iTwin
lastRun

Export Connection Response

Name
Type
Description

Export Connection

Name
Type
Description
authenticationType
id
String
displayName
String
iModelId
String
iTwinId
String

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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