Create objectType

[istairbn]

I can get a new object type via the REST API... but I can't create one.

Which means if I have a collection of object types to create at the start of an engagement, I'm going to have to manually add them. Obviously via REST I wouldn't expect to have the full flexibility of the manual wizard, but I would expect to be able to CRUD the basics at least

I would expect the potential request payload to be similar to the Get objectType with the exception of the RID's of all the elements.

Expected Payload

{
  "apiName": "employee",
  "description": "A full-time or part-time employee of our firm",
  "displayName": "Employee",
  "status": "ACTIVE",
  "primaryKey": "employeeId",
  "properties": {
    "employeeId": {
      "dataType": {
        "type": "integer"
      },
    },
    "fullName": {
      "dataType": {
        "type": "string"
      },
    },
    "office": {
      "description": "The unique ID of the employee's primary assigned office",
      "dataType": {
        "type": "string"
      },
    },
    "startDate": {
      "description": "The date the employee was hired (most recently, if they were re-hired)",
      "dataType": {
        "type": "date"
      },
    }
  },
}

As an example use case, this would allow me to populate an Ontology with a 1:1 mapping of a pre-existing model: by listing the current ontology objects and then creating the missing ones.

[jsmith]

Hey @istairbn, there is no current plan to add APIs for creating/modifying object types or other ontology entities although this could change in the future. Something that might be relevant though is ongoing work to allow ontology entities to be defined in code rather than through the UI. This doesn't help if you just want to script a change to your ontology, but if you are using this approach, the idea of scripting a change just means updating the code that defines the ontology.

If you'd like to learn more about this work, please let me know!

[istairbn]

Definitely interested in objects as code...

[jsmith]

Hey @istairbn just wanted to provide a quick update that endpoints for ontology modifications are in progress! Let me know if you're still interested and I can try to keep you up-to-date.

[ask-the-six]

@jsmith Ontology as code soon?