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Catalog Entity Example

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Catalog Entity Example is an example object payload from Backstage, with 6 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

apiVersionkindmetadataspecrelationsstatus

Example Payload

{
  "apiVersion": "backstage.io/v1alpha1",
  "kind": "Component",
  "metadata": "sample-value",
  "spec": {},
  "relations": [
    "sample-value"
  ],
  "status": {
    "items": [
      {
        "type": "sample-value",
        "level": "info",
        "message": "sample-value",
        "error": {}
      }
    ]
  }
}

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