Inductive Automation Create Database Connection Example

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Inductive Automation Create Database Connection Example is an example object payload from Inductive Automation, with 2 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

requestresponse

Example Payload

{
  "request": {
    "method": "POST",
    "url": "http://localhost:8088/data/api/v1/resources/ignition/db-connection",
    "headers": {
      "X-Ignition-API-Token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9...",
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    "body": {
      "collection": "ignition/db-connection",
      "enabled": true,
      "name": "ProductionDB",
      "description": "Production MySQL database connection",
      "config": {
        "driver": "com.inductiveautomation.jdbc.mysql.MySQLDriver",
        "connectUrl": "jdbc:mysql://db.example.com:3306/production",
        "username": "ignition_user",
        "extraConnectionProperties": {
          "autoReconnect": "true",
          "characterEncoding": "utf8"
        },
        "maxConnections": 8,
        "validationQuery": "SELECT 1"
      },
      "data": {
        "password": "ENCRYPTED:AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding:base64encodedciphertext=="
      }
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "body": {
      "signature": "d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e",
      "collection": "ignition/db-connection",
      "enabled": true,
      "name": "ProductionDB",
      "description": "Production MySQL database connection",
      "config": {
        "driver": "com.inductiveautomation.jdbc.mysql.MySQLDriver",
        "connectUrl": "jdbc:mysql://db.example.com:3306/production",
        "username": "ignition_user",
        "maxConnections": 8
      }
    }
  }
}

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