SPARQL Update API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: SPARQL 1.1 Protocol Update API
  description: 'SPARQL 1.1 Protocol is a W3C Recommendation that defines how to convey

    SPARQL queries and updates between clients and SPARQL processors over

    HTTP. It defines two operations — `query` and `update` — each of which

    can be invoked over HTTP with several encodings of the SPARQL string.


    This OpenAPI description models only the protocol operations explicitly

    defined in https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-protocol/. It does not model

    any vendor-specific authentication scheme; the spec leaves authentication

    to implementations ("implementations may choose to use HTTP authentication

    mechanisms or other implementation-defined mechanisms"). The example

    server is the public DBpedia SPARQL endpoint which accepts query

    requests without authentication.


    The Graph Store HTTP Protocol (a sibling specification at

    https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-http-rdf-update/) is not modeled here.

    '
  version: '1.1'
  contact:
    name: W3C SPARQL Working Group
    url: https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-protocol/
  license:
    name: W3C Document License
    url: https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2015/doc-license
servers:
- url: https://dbpedia.org
  description: Public DBpedia SPARQL endpoint (no auth)
- url: https://{host}
  description: Generic SPARQL 1.1 endpoint
  variables:
    host:
      default: example.org
      description: Hostname of a SPARQL 1.1 endpoint
tags:
- name: Update
  description: SPARQL update operation
paths:
  /sparql/update:
    post:
      tags:
      - Update
      summary: Execute a SPARQL update
      description: "Executes a SPARQL update. Two encodings are defined by the SPARQL 1.1\nProtocol:\n\n* `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` — the body carries the\n  `update`, `using-graph-uri`, and `using-named-graph-uri`\n  parameters.\n* `application/sparql-update` — the body IS the SPARQL update\n  string, in UTF-8.\n\nMany implementations expose update on a distinct path (e.g.\n`/sparql/update`) or require authentication; this is\nimplementation-defined.\n"
      operationId: update
      parameters:
      - name: using-graph-uri
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
            format: uri
        style: form
        explode: true
      - name: using-named-graph-uri
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
            format: uri
        style: form
        explode: true
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
              - update
              properties:
                update:
                  type: string
                  description: SPARQL update string
                using-graph-uri:
                  type: array
                  items:
                    type: string
                    format: uri
                using-named-graph-uri:
                  type: array
                  items:
                    type: string
                    format: uri
          application/sparql-update:
            schema:
              type: string
              description: SPARQL update string (UTF-8)
            example: INSERT DATA { <urn:s> <urn:p> "o" }
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Update successful
        '204':
          description: Update successful, no content
        '400':
          description: Malformed update
        '401':
          description: Update refused (authentication required)