Qlik Associative Big Data Index REST API for index maintenance
The Qlik Associative Big Data Index REST API provides a REST gateway to access the public RPCs of the
Sending a REST request
The following endpoints are currently supported.
To add a file to the index:
POST https://localhost:8080/v1/bdi/singlefileadd
To trigger a new index update without waiting for the index delay interval to elapse:
POST https://localhost:8080/v1/bdi/triggersingleupdate
For example, to notify the indexing service of a new file, the following curl command can be used:
curl -k -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{\"file_path\":\"/path/to/my/file.parquet\"}" "https://localhost:8080/v1/bdi/singlefileadd"
To force the Index Manager to start indexing any new files that have already been notified, the following curl command can be used:
curl -k -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{\"schema_name\":\"/path/to/my/schema.json\"}" "https://localhost:8080/v1/bdi/triggersingleupdate"
The backslash characters are currently necessary to escape the quotation marks because the event_infos Potobuf message structure is treated as a member of a wrapping JSON object by the Ggrpc-gateway. Its contents is a string that must also be a JSON structure sent to the Index Maintenance Service.
These curl statements result in a REST API POST to the Gateway server on port 8080 which in turn forwards those POSTs to as grpc RPC calls to the Index Maintenance Service.
The REST POSTs can be issued from a host other than the one on which the Gateway Service and Index Maintenance Service are running. then the localhost in the curl statements must be replaced with the IP address of the host on which the Gateway Service and Index Maintenance Service are running.
