Aleph Alpha Collection API
Management of document collections
Management of document collections
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openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Aleph Alpha Document Index Collection API
version: 0.0.0
description: 'The Document Index is a service that provides semantic search over your knowledge base. It
takes care of the chunking and embedding of your documents, and it keeps these embeddings in
sync when your documents change.'
contact:
email: support@aleph-alpha.com
servers:
- url: '{host}/v1/studio/search'
variables:
host:
default: https://api.pharia.example.com
tags:
- name: Collection
description: Management of document collections
paths:
/collections/{namespace}:
get:
tags:
- Collection
security:
- token: []
summary: List collections in namespace
description: List all collections that exist in the given namespace
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/namespace'
responses:
'200':
description: A list of collection names
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: array
items:
type: string
example:
- collection_1
- collection_2
operationId: getCollectionsByNamespace
x-operation-id-source: derived
/collections/{namespace}/{collection}:
put:
tags:
- Collection
security:
- token: []
summary: Create a collection
description: 'Creates a collection with a path given as namespace/collection.
Collections need to be created explicitly before documents can be put into a collection.'
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/namespace'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/collection'
responses:
'200':
description: Collection successfully created.
operationId: putCollectionsByNamespaceByCollection
x-operation-id-source: derived
delete:
tags:
- Collection
security:
- token: []
summary: Delete collection
description: 'Deletes a collection identified by the namespace/collection.
If the delete request returns successfully, the collection is deleted, i.e. it cannot be found
any more neither by collection-path nor through search/lookup. However if the delete request fails
either deletion failed or the collection will be deleted eventually.'
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/namespace'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/collection'
responses:
'200':
description: Collection successfully deleted.
operationId: deleteCollectionsByNamespaceByCollection
x-operation-id-source: derived
/collections/{namespace}/{collection}/progress:
get:
tags:
- Collection
security:
- token: []
summary: Get count of all documents in a collection that are not yet embedded
description: 'Gets count of all documents in a collection that are saved in the knowledge base, but not embedded for search yet.
The count is not exact but an upper boundary of the exact number of documents to be embedded.'
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/namespace'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/collection'
responses:
'200':
description: Number of unembedded documents
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: integer
operationId: getCollectionsByNamespaceByCollectionProgress
x-operation-id-source: derived
/collections/{namespace}/{collection}/transitioning:
get:
tags:
- Collection
security:
- token: []
summary: Get count of all documents in a collection that are not yet embedded or not yet…
description: 'Gets count of all documents in a collection where the target state does not equal the current state.
The count is not exact but an upper boundary of the exact number of documents to be embedded/archived.'
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/namespace'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/collection'
responses:
'200':
description: Number of unembedded documents
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/transitioningResult'
operationId: getCollectionsByNamespaceByCollectionTransitioning
x-operation-id-source: derived
components:
parameters:
collection:
description: 'Collection containing documents. A search/lookup request always refers to a single collection, i.e.
only a single collection can be searched with a single search/lookup request. The name of the collection
must be unique within a namespace.
Collections may only contain alphanumeric characters (a-z, A-Z, -, . and 0-9) and cannot be longer
then 100 characters.
'
name: collection
in: path
schema:
type: string
maxLength: '100'
pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+$
required: 'true'
example: wikipedia-de
namespace:
description: 'Namespace for collections of documents. Namespaces support preventing naming conflicts
for collections. A namespace typically corresponds to an organisation.
Namespaces may only contain alphanumeric characters (a-z, A-Z, -, . and 0-9) and
cannot be longer than 100 characters.
'
name: namespace
in: path
schema:
type: string
maxLength: '100'
pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+$
required: 'true'
example: aleph-alpha
schemas:
transitioningResult:
description: 'The result for a transitioning documents query.
'
type: object
properties:
currently_embedding:
type: integer
currently_archiving:
type: integer
required:
- currently_embedding
- currently_archiving
securitySchemes:
token:
type: http
scheme: bearer
description: Can be generated in your [Aleph Alpha profile](https://app.aleph-alpha.com/profile)