CVAT Assets API

The assets API from CVAT — 2 operation(s) for assets.

Operations 3

POST /api/assets Create an asset #
GET /api/assets/{uuid} Get an asset #
DELETE /api/assets/{uuid} Delete an asset #

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OpenAPI Specification

cvat-assets-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: CVAT REST Assets API
  version: 2.79.0 (2.0)
  description: REST API for Computer Vision Annotation Tool (CVAT)
  termsOfService: https://www.google.com/policies/terms/
  contact:
    name: CVAT.ai team
    url: https://github.com/cvat-ai/cvat
    email: support@cvat.ai
  license:
    name: MIT License
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License
tags:
- name: Assets
paths:
  /api/assets:
    post:
      operationId: assets_create
      summary: Create an asset
      tags:
      - Assets
      requestBody:
        content:
          multipart/form-data:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/AssetWriteRequest'
        required: true
      security:
      - tokenAuth: []
      - accessTokenAuth: []
      - sessionAuth: []
        csrfAuth: []
        csrfHeaderAuth: []
      - basicAuth: []
      responses:
        '201':
          content:
            application/vnd.cvat+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/AssetRead'
          description: ''
  /api/assets/{uuid}:
    get:
      operationId: assets_retrieve
      summary: Get an asset
      parameters:
      - in: path
        name: uuid
        schema:
          type: string
          format: uuid
        description: A UUID string identifying this asset.
        required: true
      tags:
      - Assets
      security:
      - tokenAuth: []
      - accessTokenAuth: []
      - sessionAuth: []
        csrfAuth: []
        csrfHeaderAuth: []
      - basicAuth: []
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Asset file
    delete:
      operationId: assets_destroy
      summary: Delete an asset
      parameters:
      - in: path
        name: uuid
        schema:
          type: string
          format: uuid
        description: A UUID string identifying this asset.
        required: true
      tags:
      - Assets
      security:
      - tokenAuth: []
      - accessTokenAuth: []
      - sessionAuth: []
        csrfAuth: []
        csrfHeaderAuth: []
      - basicAuth: []
      responses:
        '204':
          description: The asset has been deleted
components:
  schemas:
    AssetRead:
      type: object
      properties:
        uuid:
          type: string
          format: uuid
          readOnly: true
        filename:
          type: string
          maxLength: 1024
        created_date:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          readOnly: true
        owner:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/BasicUser'
        guide_id:
          type: integer
          readOnly: true
      required:
      - filename
    BasicUser:
      type: object
      properties:
        url:
          type: string
          format: uri
          readOnly: true
        id:
          type: integer
          readOnly: true
        username:
          type: string
          description: Required. 150 characters or fewer. Letters, digits and @/./+/-/_ only.
          pattern: ^[\w.@+-]+$
          maxLength: 150
        first_name:
          type: string
          maxLength: 150
        last_name:
          type: string
          maxLength: 150
      required:
      - username
    AssetWriteRequest:
      type: object
      properties:
        guide_id:
          type: integer
        file:
          type: string
          format: binary
          writeOnly: true
      required:
      - file
      - guide_id
  securitySchemes:
    accessTokenAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: 'To authenticate using an API Access token, you need to include

        the ''Authentication'' header with the ''Bearer '' prefix


        An API Access token has to be issued in the user profile section of the UI or

        via the /auth/access_tokens API before this authentication method can be used.

        '
    basicAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: basic
    csrfAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: cookie
      name: csrftoken
      description: 'A CSRF protection token. Can be received in the ''csrftoken'' cookie in the

        server response on the /api/auth/login endpoint. The ''Origin'' header

        must also be specified in the request.

        '
    csrfHeaderAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-CSRFToken
      description: 'A CSRF protection token. Can be received in the ''csrftoken'' cookie in the

        server response on the /api/auth/login endpoint. The ''Origin'' header

        must also be specified in the request.

        '
    sessionAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: cookie
      name: sessionid
    tokenAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Authorization
      description: 'Deprecated.


        You can obtain an API key (the token) from the server response on

        the /api/auth/login/ endpoint.

        '
      x-token-prefix: Token
externalDocs:
  description: CVAT documentation
  url: https://docs.cvat.ai/docs/
x-provenance:
  method: harvested
  publisher: CVAT
  source: https://app.cvat.ai/api/schema/
  note: split by refine-openapis from the provider's own published document, verified by fetch (openapi/_original/*.fetch.json);
    stamped by stamp-openapi-provenance.py (roadmap#793)