Manta Flow Alation: API Interaction

The following diagrams show Alation API operation calls during export and upload phases.

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The following table maps the operation names mentioned above to Alation API URLs.

Operation name API endpoint Docs
GET BI Server GET /integration/v2/bi/server/ https://developer.alation.com/dev/reference/getservers
GET job status for specified job_id GET /api/v1/bulk_metadata/job/?id={job_id} https://developer.alation.com/dev/reference/jobs-apis
GET job status for specified job_name GET /api/v1/bulk_metadata/job/?name={job_name} https://developer.alation.com/dev/reference/jobs-apis
GET VDS Server GET /integration/v1/datasource/ https://developer.alation.com/dev/reference/getdatasources-1
POST BI Datasource POST /integration/v2/bi/server/{server_id}/datasource/ https://developer.alation.com/dev/reference/postdatasources
POST BI Datasource Columns POST /integration/v2/bi/server/{server_id}/datasource/column/ https://developer.alation.com/dev/reference/postdatasourcescolumns
POST BI Folder POST /integration/v2/bi/server/{server_id}/folder/ https://developer.alation.com/dev/reference/postfolders
POST BI Report POST /integration/v2/bi/server/{server_id}/report/ https://developer.alation.com/dev/reference/postreports
POST BI Report Columns POST /integration/v2/bi/server/{server_id}/report/column/ https://developer.alation.com/dev/reference/postreportscolumns
POST BI Server POST /integration/v2/bi/server/ https://developer.alation.com/dev/reference/postservers
POST Dataflow POST /integration/v2/dataflow/ https://developer.alation.com/dev/reference/postdataflow
POST Lineage POST /integration/v2/lineage/ https://developer.alation.com/dev/reference/postlineage
POST VDS POST /api/v1/bulk_metadata/extraction/{server_id} https://developer.alation.com/dev/reference/virtual-data-source