Accessing Archive Data from an External Application
Accessing Archive Data from an External Application
You can access data in the Data Vault from an external application. You use an API in an external application to run a Data Discovery search and to return the search results in the application view. When you search from an external application, you do not need to use the Data Discovery portal.
To search Data Discovery from an external application, you must first add the IP address of the machine that hosts the external application to the
conf.properties
file. Then form a URL and enter the Data Discovery search parameters. Add the URL to the external application code. When the code calls the URL, the URL runs the Data Discovery search and returns the search results in the application view. The entity that you search from must have an associated XSL stylesheet to view the data in the application view.
Perform the following steps to search Data Discovery from external applications:
Configure security. Specify the machines that have access to call the API.
Form the URL that calls the API. In the URL, specify the parameters for the Data Discovery search.
Add the URL to the external application code. When the external application calls the API, Data Archive uses the parameters in the URL to run the Data Discovery search.