CreateFork - Transformations

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CreateFork

This operation is a Technical Preview and is available for testing purposes only. Do not use in production.

POST https://dev-api.bentley.com/transformations/configurations/createfork

This endpoint is used to create a configuration for a CreateFork transformation.

CreateFork transformation is used for establishing a (main <-> fork) relationship between 2 iModels and for synchronizing changes in the "forward" (main -> fork) direction.

The first time a CreateFork transformation is performed, a link is established between source (main) and the target (fork) iModels. The target iModel must be a clone of the source iModel. You can clone the existing iModel using iModels API's endpoints:

Consecutive CreateFork transformations may be used to pull changes from the main iModel into the fork iModel.

To synchronize changes in the "reverse" (fork -> main) direction see MergeFork configuration.

In addition to exported data, the transformer will also push some additional metadata. This metadata contains:

BisCore:RepositoryLink and BisCore:ExternalSource elements that mark the source where the data was imported from.
A "Scope" BisCore:ExternalSourceAspect that contains Synchronization changeset metadata that is needed by the transformation service to process any later changes correctly.
Element provenance information (BisCore:ExternalSourceAspects) for elements that do not have federation guids.

Limitations: Since an iModel can contain multiple forks there is a possibility that any given fork and the main iModel end up with conflicting schemas, e.g., the same ECProperty in one schema is of type "number" and in another schema it is of type "string". Schema conflicts are not handled by the transformations service and in these cases the transformation will fail.

Note: Creating a configuration does not run the transformation. To run the transformation, please see transformations reference.

Authentication

Requires Authorization header with valid Bearer token for scope itwin-platform.

For more documentation on authorization and how to get access token visit OAUTH2 Authorization page.

Authorization

You must have imodels_write assigned at the target project level and imodels_read assigned at the source project level within related configuration. If permissions at the project level are not configured, then you must have same assigned at the iModel level.

Alternatively, you must be an Organization Administrator for the Organization that owns a given project the iModel belongs to.

An Organization Administrator must have at least one of the following roles assigned in User Management: Account Administrator, Co-Administrator, or CONNECT Services Administrator. For more information about User Management see Bentley Communities Licensing, Cloud, and Web Services wiki page.

Rate limits

All iTwin Platform API operations have a rate limit. For more documentation on that visit Rate limits and quotas page.

Request

Request headers

Authorization

Yes

OAuth access token with itwin-platform scope

Yes

Setting to application/vnd.bentley.itwin-platform.v1+json is recommended.

Configuration data

Request body

Create CreateFork configuration

transformName

String

Yes

User friendly name of the transformation.

sourceProjectId

String

Yes

ProjectId of the source iModel.

sourceIModelId

String

Yes

ID of the source iModel.

targetProjectId

String

Yes

ProjectId of the target iModel.

targetIModelId

String

Yes

ID of the target iModel.

comment

String

Yes

Comment for the changeset created after transformation.

Example

json

{
    "transformName": "Example name",
    "sourceProjectId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
    "sourceIModelId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
    "targetProjectId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
    "targetIModelId": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
    "comment": "Example comment"
}

Response

Response 201 Created

Returns the created configuration.

json

{
    "configuration": {
        "id": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
        "transformName": "Transformation name",
        "comment": "comment",
        "createdDateTime": "2021-08-02T14:51:33.6133333Z",
        "modifiedDateTime": "2021-08-02T14:52:33.6133333Z",
        "transformType": "CreateFork",
        "_links": {
            "sourceIModel": {
                "href": "https://api.bentley.com/imodels/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
            },
            "targetIModel": {
                "href": "https://api.bentley.com/imodels/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
            },
            "sourceProject": {
                "href": "https://api.bentley.com/itwins/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
            },
            "targetProject": {
                "href": "https://api.bentley.com/itwins/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
            }
        }
    }
}

Response 401 Unauthorized

This response indicates that request lacks valid authentication credentials. Access token might not been provided, issued by the wrong issuer, does not have required scopes or request headers were malformed.

json

{
    "error": {
        "code": "HeaderNotFound",
        "message": "Header Authorization was not found in the request. Access denied."
    }
}

Response 403 Forbidden

User has insufficient permissions.

json

{
    "error": {
        "code": "InsufficientPermissions",
        "message": "The user has insufficient permissions for the requested operation."
    }
}

Response 404 Not Found

This response indicates that the provided Project or iModel could not be found.

json

{
    "error": {
        "code": "IModelNotFound",
        "message": "Requested IModel is not available."
    }
}

Response 422 Unprocessable Entity

Given data is invalid.

json

{
    "error": {
        "code": "MissingRequestBody",
        "message": "Request body was not provided."
    }
}

Response 429 Too many requests

This response indicates that the user has sent too many requests in a given amount of time.

json

{
    "error": {
        "code": "TooManyRequests",
        "message": "More requests were received than the subscription rate-limit allows."
    }
}

Response headers

retry-after

The number of requests exceeds the rate-limit for the client subscription.

Definitions

Create CreateFork configuration

Data needed to create CreateFork configuration.

transformName

String

User friendly name of the transformation.

sourceProjectId

String

ProjectId of the source iModel.

sourceIModelId

String

ID of the source iModel.

targetProjectId

String

ProjectId of the target iModel.

targetIModelId

String

ID of the target iModel.

comment

String

Comment for the changeset created after transformation.

Create fork configuration

configuration

Configuration_CreateFork

Create fork configuration object.

Create fork configuration properties

String

ID of the configuration.

transformName

String

User friendly name of the transformation.

comment

String, null

Comment for the changeset created after transformation.

createdDateTime

Date-time

Time the configuration was created at.

modifiedDateTime

Date-time

Time the configuration was last modified at.

transformType

String

Type of the transformation.

_links

Links_ConfigurationData

Links to a configuration data.

Links

sourceIModel

Link

Link to a source iModel.

targetIModel

Link

Link to a target iModel.

sourceProject

Link

Link to a source project.

targetProject

Link

Link to a target project.

Link

href

String

Link to a resource.

DetailedError

Contains error information and an array of more specific errors.

code

String

One of a server-defined set of error codes.

message

String

A human-readable representation of the error.

target

String, null

The target of the error.

details

Error[]

Optional array of more specific errors.

Detailed Error Response

Gives details for an error that occurred while handling the request. Note that clients MUST NOT assume that every failed request will produce an object of this schema, or that all of the properties in the response will be non-null, as the error may have prevented this response from being constructed.

error

DetailedError

Error Detailed information.