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Pinecone Create Index Example

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

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{
  "operationId": "create_index",
  "method": "POST",
  "path": "/indexes",
  "summary": "Create an index",
  "requestExamples": [
    {
      "contentType": "application/json",
      "name": "serverless-index",
      "example": {
        "deletion_protection": "enabled",
        "dimension": 1536,
        "metric": "cosine",
        "name": "movie-recommendations",
        "spec": {
          "serverless": {
            "cloud": "gcp",
            "read_capacity": {
              "mode": "OnDemand"
            },
            "region": "us-east1",
            "source_collection": "movie-embeddings"
          }
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "contentType": "application/json",
      "name": "serverless-sparse-index",
      "example": {
        "deletion_protection": "enabled",
        "metric": "dotproduct",
        "name": "sparse-index",
        "spec": {
          "serverless": {
            "cloud": "gcp",
            "read_capacity": {
              "mode": "OnDemand"
            },
            "region": "us-east1"
          }
        },
        "vector_type": "sparse"
      }
    },
    {
      "contentType": "application/json",
      "name": "serverless-dedicated-index",
      "example": {
        "deletion_protection": "enabled",
        "metric": "cosine",
        "name": "dedicated-index",
        "spec": {
          "serverless": {
            "cloud": "gcp",
            "read_capacity": {
              "dedicated": {
                "manual": {
                  "replicas": 3,
                  "shards": 2
                },
                "node_type": "b1",
                "scaling": "Manual"
              },
              "mode": "Dedicated"
            },
            "region": "us-east1"
          }
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "contentType": "application/json",
      "name": "pod-index",
      "example": {
        "deletion_protection": "enabled",
        "dimension": 1536,
        "metric": "cosine",
        "name": "movie-recommendations",
        "spec": {
          "pod": {
            "environment": "us-east-1-aws",
            "metadata_config": {
              "indexed": [
                "genre",
                "title",
                "imdb_rating"
              ]
            },
            "pod_type": "p1.x1",
            "pods": 1,
            "replicas": 1,
            "shards": 1,
            "source_collection": "movie-embeddings"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "responseExamples": [
    {
      "status": "400",
      "contentType": "application/json",
      "name": "index-metric-validation-error",
      "example": {
        "error": {
          "code": "INVALID_ARGUMENT",
          "message": "Bad request. The request body included invalid request parameters."
        },
        "status": 400
      }
    },
    {
      "status": "401",
      "contentType": "application/json",
      "name": "unauthorized",
      "example": {
        "error": {
          "code": "UNAUTHENTICATED",
          "message": "Invalid API key."
        },
        "status": 401
      }
    },
    {
      "status": "402",
      "contentType": "application/json",
      "name": "payment-required",
      "example": {
        "error": {
          "code": "PAYMENT_REQUIRED",
          "message": "Request failed. Pay all past due invoices to lift restrictions on your account."
        },
        "status": 402
      }
    },
    {
      "status": "403",
      "contentType": "application/json",
      "name": "unauthorized",
      "example": {
        "error": {
          "code": "FORBIDDEN",
          "message": "Increase your quota or upgrade to create more indexes."
        },
        "status": 403
      }
    },
    {
      "status": "404",
      "contentType": "application/json",
      "name": "serverless-spec-cloud-not-found",
      "example": {
        "error": {
          "code": "NOT_FOUND",
          "message": "Resource cloud: aws region: us-west1 not found."
        },
        "status": 404
      }
    },
    {
      "status": "422",
      "contentType": "application/json",
      "name": "missing-field",
      "example": {
        "error": {
          "code": "UNPROCESSABLE_ENTITY",
          "message": "Failed to deserialize the JSON body into the target type: missing field `metric` at line 1 column 16"
        },
        "status": 422
      }
    },
    {
      "status": "409",
      "contentType": "application/json",
      "name": "index-name-already-exists",
      "example": {
        "error": {
          "code": "ALREADY_EXISTS",
          "message": "Resource already exists."
        },
        "status": 409
      }
    },
    {
      "status": "500",
      "contentType": "application/json",
      "name": "internal-server-error",
      "example": {
        "error": {
          "code": "UNKNOWN",
          "message": "Internal server error"
        },
        "status": 500
      }
    }
  ]
}