Current Entity API
The following table describes how provenance effects the current Entity CRUD API:
URL | HTTP Type | Description |
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/entity?generatedBy={activity id} | POST | Creates a new entity and creates a generatedBy connection to the provided activity.
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/entity/{id}?generatedBy={activity id} | PUT | Updates the entity and creates a generatedBy connection from the current version of the entity to the provided activity.
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/entity/{id}/version?generatedBy={activityId} | PUT | Creates a new version of a given version-able entity and creates a generatedBy connection to the provided activity.
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/entity/bundle?generatedBy={activityId} | POST | Creates a new EntityBundle and creates a generatedBy connection to the provided activity.
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/entity/bundle?generatedBy={activityId} | PUT | Updates an EntityBundle and creates a generatedBy connection to the provided activity.
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/entity/{id}/generatedBy | GET | Returns the activity that generated the current version of the entity.
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/entity/{id}/generatedBy?generatedBy={activityId} | PUT | Updates the activity that generated the current version of the entity. Outside the transaction of entity CRUD.
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/entity/{id}/generatedBy | DELETE | Removes the generatedBy connection from the current version of the entity. |
/entity/{id}/version/{versionNumber}/generatedBy | GET | Returns the activity that generated the specific version of the entity.
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/entity/{id}/version/{versionNumber}/generatedBy?generatedBy={activityId} | PUT | Updates the activity that generated the specific version of the entity. Outside the transaction of entity CRUD. |
/entity/{id}/version/{versionNumber}/generatedBy | DELETE | Removes the generatedBy connection from the specific version of the entity. |
Provenance Additions to the API
The following table describes the new methods for manipulating the versions of a version-able entity.
URL | HTTP Type | Description |
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/activity | POST | Creates a new activity object. |
/activity/{activityId} | PUT | Updates the specified activity.
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/activity/{activityId} | GET | Returns the specified activity.
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/activity/{activityId} | DELETE |
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