Create Mapping - Reporting

REST API Overview

Reference

Reporting

Download API definition:

POST https://qa-api.bentley.com/insights/reporting/datasources/imodels/{imodelId}/mappings

Creates a Mapping for an iModel. Each Mapping represents a collection of tables (Groups) of data that can be consumed in a Report.

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 imodels_write permission(s) assigned at the Project level. iModel specific permissions may also be applied at the iModel level if iModel level permissions are enabled.

Alternatively the user should be an Organization Administrator for the Organization that owns a given Project or iModel.

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.

Extraction Triggers & Configuration

Mappings can be configured with extractionEnabled set to true or false. true means that Extractions will be automatically executed for the given Mapping when either a new ChangesetGroup is created (see ChangesetGroupCompletedEvent) or when the Run Extraction operation is executed without the optional mappings parameter. Note: Multiple ChangesetGroups can be created for a single Synchronization job which will result in multiple automatic Extractions.

If extractionEnabled is set to false, all of the above mechanisms are disabled. However, Extractions can still be executed for a specific Mapping manually using the Run Extraction operation and the optional mappings parameter. To have better control over Extractions, it is recommended to set extractionEnabled to false and manually trigger Run Extraction when a Mapping's extracted data is stale and needs to be refreshed.

Rate limits

All iTwin Platform API operations have a rate limit. For more documentation on that visit Rate limits and quotas page.

"Try it out" Limitations

When you run an Extraction with the "Try it out" function on a Mapping that was created or modified by using the "Try it out" function, you are limited to 100 extracted rows for each group. Mapping modification is any POST/DELETE/PATCH/PUT request to any endpoint with the tag "Mappings" or if the URL contains {mappingId}.

Request

Request parameters

imodelId

Yes

Id of the iModel for which to create a new Mapping.

Request headers

Authorization

Yes

OAuth access token with itwin-platform scope

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

Request body

Mapping (create)

mappingName

String

Yes

Name of the Mapping (OData v4 SimpleIdentifier).

description

String

Description of the Mapping.

extractionEnabled

Boolean

Value of false excludes a Mapping from the Run Extraction operation and from automatic Data Extraction execution after new changes to the iModel are ready to be processed. If the Run Extraction operation is executed using the optional mappings parameter, the value of extractionEnabled will be treated as true for all specified Mappings. The default value is true.

Example

json

{
    "mappingName": "Mapping_name",
    "description": "Mapping schema for iModel",
    "extractionEnabled": true
}

Response

Response 200 OK

Created a new Mapping successfully.

json

{
    "mapping": {
        "id": "f1fe5959-35ab-467e-83b8-a679b722d80f",
        "mappingName": "Mapping_name",
        "description": "Mapping schema for iModel",
        "extractionEnabled": true,
        "createdOn": "2021-09-03T10:48:45+00:00",
        "createdBy": "hanson.deck@cohesivecompanies.com",
        "modifiedOn": "2021-09-03T10:48:45+00:00",
        "modifiedBy": "hanson.deck@cohesivecompanies.com",
        "_links": {
            "imodel": {
                "href": "https://api.bentley.com/imodels/70a3d6d3-5385-4bc3-87c4-b6bf106e1c0a"
            }
        }
    }
}

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 404 Not Found

Specified Mapping was not found.

json

{
    "error": {
        "code": "MappingNotFound",
        "message": "Requested Mapping is not available.",
        "target": "id"
    }
}

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": "InvalidInsightsRequest",
        "message": "Error message."
    }
}

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

retry-after

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

Definitions

Mapping Response

Container for a Mapping object.

mapping

Mapping

Mapping properties.

Link

Hyperlink container.

href

String

Hyperlink to the specific entity.

Mapping

Defines a Mapping for an iModel. Each mapping represents a collection of 'Groups', sets of iModel elements, and their properties of interest.

String

The Mapping Id.

mappingName

String

Name of the Mapping (OData v4 SimpleIdentifier).

description

String

Description of the Mapping.

extractionEnabled

Boolean

createdOn

String

Date when the Mapping was created.

createdBy

String

Email of the user who created the Mapping.

modifiedOn

String

Date when the Mapping was last modified.

modifiedBy

String

Email of the user who last modified the Mapping.

_links.imodel

Link

URL pointing to the related iModel.

Mapping (create)

Properties of the Mapping to be created.

mappingName

String

Name of the Mapping (OData v4 SimpleIdentifier).

description

String

Description of the Mapping.

extractionEnabled

Boolean

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.

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

Error

Error information.