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Cleanse Entities

REST API for cleansing entities.

Request

This operation is used to cleanse an entity.

POST {TenantURL}/entities/cleanse?type={shortUriOfCleanseConfig}
Table 1. Parameters
Parameter Required Description
Headers Authorization Yes Information about authentication access token in format "Bearer <accessToken>" (see details in Authentication API ).
Query shortUriOfCleanseConfig Yes This parameter defines which cleanse config will be used for entity cleansing. In the parameter value, user should provide shortUri for one of cleanse configs defined for EntityType in the "cleanse" section in configuration for the current tenant.
returnUserData No If false, does not return user data provided to cleanse, only cleansed values.
options No Comma-separated list of different options which affect entity's JSON content in the response. Available options:
  • ov=false- disabled by default, entity's JSON will contain hidden attributes if this option is enabled.
  • ovOnly- return only attribute values that have ov=true flag.
  • nonOvOnly- return only attribute values that have ov=false flag. If you have a nested or reference attribute value where ov=true, but sub-attributes where ov=false, then these subattributes will not appear in the response.

Response

JSON Array containing object representing cleansed object, or in case of fuzzy cleansing variants of cleansed entity based on multiple cleansed results. Fuzzy cleansing, when cleansing provides multiple results for one input, can occur for example when user didn't specified exact location, but provided address that corresponds to some amount of different places.

Request

POST {TenantURL}/entities/cleanse?type=default
Headers: Authorization: Bearer 204938ca-2cf7-44b0-b11a-1b4c59984512
{
    "type": "configuration/entityTypes/Location",
    "attributes": {
        "AddressPaste": [
            {
                "type": "configuration/entityTypes/Location/attributes/AddressPaste",
                "value": "Plateau du Kirchberg B.P. 1601 L-2929 Luxembourg"
            }
        ]
    }
}

Response

POST {TenantURL}/entities/cleanse?type=default
Headers: Authorization: Bearer 204938ca-2cf7-44b0-b11a-1b4c59984512
{
    "uri": "entities/YkOh0FE",
    "type": "configuration/entityTypes/Location",
    "createdTime": 1505349008888,
    "updatedTime": 1505349008888,
    "attributes": {},
    "isFavorite": false,
    "analyticsAttributes": {},
    "label": "",
    "secondaryLabel": ""
}