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AddDirectQueryDataSource - Amazon OpenSearch Service

AddDirectQueryDataSource

Adds a new data source in Amazon OpenSearch Service so that you can perform direct queries on external data.

Request Syntax

POST /2021-01-01/opensearch/directQueryDataSource HTTP/1.1 Content-type: application/json { "DataSourceName": "string", "DataSourceType": { ... }, "Description": "string", "OpenSearchArns": [ "string" ], "TagList": [ { "Key": "string", "Value": "string" } ] }

URI Request Parameters

The request does not use any URI parameters.

Request Body

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

DataSourceName

A unique, user-defined label to identify the data source within your OpenSearch Service environment.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 3. Maximum length of 80.

Pattern: [a-z][a-z0-9_]+

Required: Yes

DataSourceType

The supported AWS service that you want to use as the source for direct queries in OpenSearch Service.

Type: DirectQueryDataSourceType object

Note: This object is a Union. Only one member of this object can be specified or returned.

Required: Yes

Description

An optional text field for providing additional context and details about the data source.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 1000.

Pattern: ^([a-zA-Z0-9_])*[\\a-zA-Z0-9_@#%*+=:?./!\s-]*$

Required: No

OpenSearchArns

A list of Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) for the OpenSearch collections that are associated with the direct query data source.

Type: Array of strings

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 20. Maximum length of 2048.

Pattern: .*

Required: Yes

TagList

A list of tags attached to a domain.

Type: Array of Tag objects

Required: No

Response Syntax

HTTP/1.1 200 Content-type: application/json { "DataSourceArn": "string" }

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

DataSourceArn

The unique, system-generated identifier that represents the data source.

Type: String

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

BaseException

An error occurred while processing the request.

HTTP Status Code: 400

DisabledOperationException

An error occured because the client wanted to access an unsupported operation.

HTTP Status Code: 409

InternalException

Request processing failed because of an unknown error, exception, or internal failure.

HTTP Status Code: 500

LimitExceededException

An exception for trying to create more than the allowed number of resources or sub-resources.

HTTP Status Code: 409

ResourceNotFoundException

An exception for accessing or deleting a resource that doesn't exist.

HTTP Status Code: 409

ValidationException

An exception for accessing or deleting a resource that doesn't exist.

HTTP Status Code: 400

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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