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Creating a streaming ingestion and replication task

Use the CreateEntity/Documents resource to create a

streaming ingestion and replication

task.

POST request

To create a

streaming ingestion and replication

task, use the following URL:

POST <server URI>/sisvc/restapi/v1/CreateEntity/Documents

Use the following request header:

POST <server URI>/sisvc/restapi/v1/CreateEntity/Documents
Content-Type: application/json
Accept:application/json
IDS-SESSION-ID: <SessionId>

POST request sample

Use this sample as a reference to create a

streaming ingestion and replication

task:

POST <server URI>/sisvc/restapi/v1/CreateEntity/Documents
Content-Type: application/json
Accept:application/json
IDS-SESSION-ID:2l0oeVx22Rujiej7yTokmT
{
    "name": "FileToFile17",
    "description": "FileToFile_V2",
    "runtimeId": "01000025000000000003",
    "locationId": "8ubL3nIupMqk6bJC2mYtkh",
    "currentVersion": "2",
    "messageFormat": "binary",
    "documentState": "VALID",
    "parentInfo": [
        {
            "parentId": "8ubL3nIupMqk6bJC2mYtkh",
            "parentName": "ng",
            "parentType": "Project"
        }
    ],
    "nodes": [
        {
            "name": "FileToFile_source",
            "type": "source",
            "connectionId": "0100000B000000000002",
            "transformationType": "",
            "config": [
                {
                    "key": "File",
                    "value": "siagent.log"
                },
                {
                    "key": "initialPosition",
                    "value": "Current Time"
                },
                {
                    "key": "rolloverPattern",
                    "value": ""
                },
                {
                    "key": "tailingMode",
                    "value": "Single file"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
           "name":"Filter",
           "serviceType":"transformation",
           "type":"filter",
           "metaMetadata":"",
           "config": [{
                   "key":"messageFormat",
                   "value":"binary"
                }, {
                   "key":"transformationName",
                   "value":"Filter"
                }, {
                   "key":"filterType",
                   "value":"regEx"
                }, {
                   "key":"expression",
                   "value":"*"
                }, {
                   "key":"name",
                   "value":"filter"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "FileToFile_target",
            "type": "target",
            "connectionId": "0100000B000000000002",
            "transformationType": "",
            "config": [
                {
                    "key": "File Name",
                    "value": "testing.log"
                },
                {
                    "key": "interimDirectory",
                    "value": "/home/agent/infa/test_file_target"
                },
                {
                    "key": "rolloverSize",
                    "value": 100
                },
                {
                    "key": "rolloverEvents",
                    "value": 100
                },
                {
                    "key": "rolloverTime",
                    "value": 100
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "edges": [
        {
            "from": "FileToFile_source",
            "to": "Filter"
        },
        {
            "from": "Filter",
            "to": "FileToFile_target"
        }
    ],
    "runtimeOptions": {
        "maxLogSize": {
            "value": 10,
            "unit": "MB"
        },
        "logLevel": "INFO"
    }
}