Aleph Alpha Filter Index API
Management of search filter indexes
Management of search filter indexes
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openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Aleph Alpha Document Index Filter Index 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: Filter Index
description: Management of search filter indexes
paths:
/filter_indexes/{namespace}:
get:
tags:
- Filter Index
security:
- token: []
summary: List of filter index configurations in namespace.
description: List all filter index configurations that exist in the given namespace.
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/namespace'
responses:
'200':
description: A list of filter index config names
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: array
items:
type: string
example:
- filter-index-config-1
- filter-index-config-2
/filter_indexes/{namespace}/{filterIndex}:
get:
tags:
- Filter Index
security:
- token: []
summary: Get namespace-wide filter index configuration.
description: Gets the parameters for the given filter index configuration.
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/namespace'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/filterIndex'
responses:
'200':
description: A filter index config
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/filterIndexConfig'
example:
field_name: a.nested.field
field_type: string
put:
tags:
- Filter Index
security:
- token: []
summary: Define a namespace-wide filter index configuration.
description: 'Defines a namespace-wide filter index configuration. Once a configuration is defined it can be assigned
to indexes that are assigned to a collections of the namespace which then allows to filter searches on this index
based on the field defined in the configuration.
'
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/namespace'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/filterIndex'
requestBody:
required: 'true'
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/filterIndexConfig'
example:
field_name: a.nested.field
field_type: string
responses:
'200':
description: No content
delete:
tags:
- Filter Index
security:
- token: []
summary: Delete a namespace-wide filter index configuration.
description: 'Deletes the filter index configuration for the given namespace. This is not possible if the filter index
is added to any assigned index.
'
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/namespace'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/filterIndex'
responses:
'200':
description: Filter index configuration successfully deleted.
'409':
description: The filter index configuration cannot be deleted because it is used.
/collections/{namespace}/{collection}/indexes/{index}/filter_indexes:
get:
tags:
- Filter Index
security:
- token: []
summary: Gets the filter indexes assigned to an assigned (search) index.
description: 'Gets the filter indexes assigned to an assigned (search) index. Searches on the assigned
index can use these filter indexes.
'
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/namespace'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/collection'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/index'
responses:
'200':
description: A list of filter index names
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: array
items:
type: string
example:
- filter_index_1
- filter_index_2
/collections/{namespace}/{collection}/indexes/{index}/filter_indexes/{filterIndex}:
put:
tags:
- Filter Index
security:
- token: []
summary: Assign an existing filter index config to an assigned (search) index.
description: 'Assigns a filter index config that exists in the same namespace as the collection to an
index assigned to the collection. This allows you to filter results from searches over the
search index.
'
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/namespace'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/collection'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/index'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/filterIndex'
responses:
'200':
description: Filter index successfully assigned.
delete:
tags:
- Filter Index
security:
- token: []
summary: Unassigns a filter index config from an assigned (search) index.
description: 'Unassigns a filter index config from an assigned (search) index. Subsequent searches on the
index will no longer be able to use the filter.
'
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/namespace'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/collection'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/index'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/filterIndex'
responses:
'200':
description: Filter index successfully unassigned.
components:
parameters:
filterIndex:
description: 'Filter index for an index assigned to a collection. Filter indexes are used to allow
filtering of results when searching on documents in a collection. An filter index name
can only contain alphanumeric characters (a-z, A-Z, -, . and 0-9) and cannot be longer
than 50 characters.
'
name: filterIndex
in: path
schema:
type: string
maxLength: '50'
pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+$
required: 'true'
example: creation-date
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
index:
description: 'Index for a collection. Indexes are used for search operations on documents in collections.
An index name may only contain alphanumeric characters (a-z, A-Z, -, . and 0-9) and cannot
be longer than 50 characters.
'
name: index
in: path
schema:
type: string
maxLength: '50'
pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+$
required: 'true'
example: asymmetric
schemas:
metadataFilterField:
description: 'The metadata field on which to filter search results. Field names must only contain alphanumeric characters,
dashes and underscores. Nested fields can be specified using dot notation (e.g. ''a.b'').
Array-valued fields can either use a wildcard specifier (e.g. ''a[].b'') or a specific index (e.g. ''a[1].b'').
The maximum length of the field name is 1000 characters.
'
type: string
maxLength: '1000'
pattern: ^([[:alnum:]\-_]+(\[[[:digit:]]{0,5}\])*\.)*[[:alnum:]\-_]+$
filterIndexConfig:
description: 'Represents the configuration parameters for a filter index. Filter indexes can be used to filter search
results based on the metadata field defined in the configuration.
'
type: object
properties:
field_name:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/metadataFilterField'
field_type:
type: string
enum:
- string
- integer
- float
- boolean
- date_time
securitySchemes:
token:
type: http
scheme: bearer
description: Can be generated in your [Aleph Alpha profile](https://app.aleph-alpha.com/profile)