Lightdash

Lightdash Impersonation API

The Impersonation API from Lightdash — 2 operation(s) for impersonation.

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Operations 2

POST /api/v1/impersonation/start Start impersonation #

POST /api/v1/impersonation/stop Stop impersonation #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Lightdash AiAgents Impersonation API
  version: 0.3156.1
  description: 'Open API documentation for all public Lightdash API endpoints. # Authentication Before you get started, you might need to create a Personal Access Token to authenticate via the API. You can create a token by following this guide: https://docs.lightdash.com/references/personal_tokens

    '
  license:
    name: MIT
  contact:
    name: Lightdash Support
    email: support@lightdash.com
    url: https://docs.lightdash.com/help-and-contact/contact/contact_info/
servers:
- url: /
tags:
- name: Impersonation
paths:
  /api/v1/impersonation/start:
    post:
      operationId: StartImpersonation
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Ok
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiStartImpersonationResponse'
        default:
          description: Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorPayload'
      description: Start impersonating a user
      summary: Start impersonation
      tags:
      - Impersonation
      security: []
      parameters: []
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiStartImpersonationRequest'
  /api/v1/impersonation/stop:
    post:
      operationId: StopImpersonation
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Ok
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiStopImpersonationResponse'
        default:
          description: Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorPayload'
      description: Stop impersonating a user
      summary: Stop impersonation
      tags:
      - Impersonation
      security: []
      parameters: []
components:
  schemas:
    ApiErrorPayload:
      properties:
        error:
          properties:
            data:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/AnyType'
              description: Optional data containing details of the error
            message:
              type: string
              description: A friendly message summarising the error
            name:
              type: string
              description: Unique name for the type of error
            statusCode:
              type: number
              format: integer
              description: HTTP status code
          required:
          - name
          - statusCode
          type: object
        status:
          type: string
          enum:
          - error
      required:
      - error
      - status
      type: object
      description: 'The Error object is returned from the api any time there is an error.

        The message contains'
    AnyType:
      description: 'This AnyType is an alias for any

        The goal is to make it easier to identify any type in the codebase

        without having to eslint-disable all the time

        These are only used on legacy `any` types, don''t use it for new types.

        This is added on a separate file to avoid circular dependencies.'
    ApiStartImpersonationRequest:
      properties:
        targetUserUuid:
          type: string
      required:
      - targetUserUuid
      type: object
    ApiStopImpersonationResponse:
      properties:
        results:
          type:
          - number
          - 'null'
          enum:
          - null
        status:
          type: string
          enum:
          - ok
      required:
      - results
      - status
      type: object
    ApiStartImpersonationResponse:
      properties:
        results:
          type:
          - number
          - 'null'
          enum:
          - null
        status:
          type: string
          enum:
          - ok
      required:
      - results
      - status
      type: object
  securitySchemes:
    session_cookie:
      type: apiKey
      in: cookie
      name: connect.sid
    api_key:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Authorization
      description: Value should be 'ApiKey <your key>'

Lightdash Impersonation API

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