Entity Types

Use these operations to interact with entity types in Cortex.

Required permissions

Your API key must have the Edit entity types permission.

Operations

List entity types

get

List entity types

Response excludes Cortex default types of service, domain, and team.

Authorizations

Query parameters

includeBuiltInbooleanOptional

When true, returns the built-in entity types that Cortex provides, such as rds and s3. Defaults to false.

pageSizeinteger · int32Required

Number of results to return per page, between 1 and 1000. Default 250.

Default: 250

pageinteger · int32Required

Page number to return, 0-indexed. Default 0.

Default: 0

Responses

get

HTTPcURLJavaScriptPython

GET /api/v1/catalog/definitions HTTP/1.1
Host: api.getcortexapp.com
Authorization: Bearer JWT
Accept: */*

{
  "definitions": [
    {
      "description": "text",
      "name": "text",
      "schema": {},
      "source": "CORTEX",
      "type": "text"
    }
  ],
  "page": 1,
  "total": 1,
  "totalPages": 1
}

Retrieve entity type

get

Authorizations

Path parameters

typestringRequired

Responses

get

HTTPcURLJavaScriptPython

GET /api/v1/catalog/definitions/{type} HTTP/1.1
Host: api.getcortexapp.com
Authorization: Bearer JWT
Accept: */*

{
  "description": "text",
  "name": "text",
  "schema": {},
  "source": "CORTEX",
  "type": "text"
}

Create entity type

post

Authorizations

Body

descriptionstringOptional

namestringOptional

schemaobjectRequired

typestringRequired

Responses

post

HTTPcURLJavaScriptPython

POST /api/v1/catalog/definitions HTTP/1.1
Host: api.getcortexapp.com
Authorization: Bearer JWT
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: */*
Content-Length: 62

{
  "description": "text",
  "name": "text",
  "schema": {},
  "type": "text"
}

{
  "description": "text",
  "name": "text",
  "schema": {},
  "source": "CORTEX",
  "type": "text"
}

Update entity type

put

Authorizations

Path parameters

typestringRequired

Query parameters

forcebooleanOptional

When true, schema will be updated even if it results in broken schemas for existing entities. Defaults to false.

Body

descriptionstringOptional

namestringOptional

schemaobjectRequired

Responses

put

HTTPcURLJavaScriptPython

PUT /api/v1/catalog/definitions/{type} HTTP/1.1
Host: api.getcortexapp.com
Authorization: Bearer JWT
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: */*
Content-Length: 48

{
  "description": "text",
  "name": "text",
  "schema": {}
}

{
  "description": "text",
  "name": "text",
  "schema": {},
  "source": "CORTEX",
  "type": "text"
}

Delete entity type

delete

Authorizations

Path parameters

typestringRequired

Responses

delete

HTTPcURLJavaScriptPython

DELETE /api/v1/catalog/definitions/{type} HTTP/1.1
Host: api.getcortexapp.com
Authorization: Bearer JWT
Accept: */*

No content