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Confluent Types (v1) API

[![Generally Available](https://img.shields.io/badge/Lifecycle%20Stage-Generally%20Available-%2345c6e8)](#section/Versioning/API-Lifecycle-Policy)The API allows you to create, retrieve, update, and delete catalog types such as tag definitions.Related guide: [Catalog API Documentation](https://docs.confluent.io/cloud/current/stream-governance/stream-catalog.html#catalog-api-documentation).

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Confluent Types (v1) API is one of 127 APIs that Confluent publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Types (v1). The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and an API reference.

This API exposes 10 operations across 4 paths, and defines 7 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.confluent.cloud.

10 operations 4 paths 7 schemas 2 DELETE4 GET2 POST2 PUT

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
Base URL
https://api.confluent.cloud
Authentication
HTTP Basic, OAuth 2.0, HTTP Basic, HTTP Basic, OAuth 2.0, OAuth 2.0
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 6

Confluent Types (v1) API declares 6 security schemes for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP basic authentication (cloud-api-key). It supports OAuth 2.0 (confluent-sts-access-token) using the clientCredentials flow. It accepts HTTP basic authentication (global-api-key). It accepts HTTP basic authentication (resource-api-key). It supports OAuth 2.0 (external-access-token) using the clientCredentials flow. It supports OAuth 2.0 (oauth) using the clientCredentials flow, exposing 4 scopes.

  • cloud-api-key — Authenticate with Cloud API Keys using HTTP Basic Auth. Treat the Cloud API Key ID as the username and Cloud API Key Secret as the password.
  • confluent-sts-access-token — Authenticate with Confluent API using this credentials (JSON Web Tokens) following OAuth 2.0.
  • global-api-key — Authenticate with Global API Keys using HTTP Basic Auth. Treat the Global API Key ID as the username and Global API Key Secret as the password.
  • resource-api-key — Authenticate with resource-specific API Keys using HTTP Basic Auth. Treat the resource-specific API Key ID as the username and resource-specific API Key Secret…
  • external-access-token — Authenticate with Confluent API using this credentials (JSON Web Tokens) following OAuth 2.0.
  • oauth — Authenticate with OAuth 2.0. Currently this is only supported for partner APIs.

Paths & Operations 10

Across 4 paths, the API surfaces 10 operations — 2 DELETE, 4 GET, 2 POST, 2 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Types (v1) 10

[![Generally Available](https://img.shields.io/badge/Lifecycle%20Stage-Generally%20Available-%2345c6e8)](section/Versioning/API-Lifecycle-Policy) The API allows you to create, ret…

GET
/catalog/v1/types/businessmetadatadefs
Bulk Read Business Metadata Definitions
getAllBusinessMetadataDefs 1 param → 200400429500
POST
/catalog/v1/types/businessmetadatadefs
Bulk Create Business Metadata Definitions
createBusinessMetadataDefs body → 200400429500
PUT
/catalog/v1/types/businessmetadatadefs
Bulk Update Business Metadata Definitions
updateBusinessMetadataDefs body → 200400429500
DELETE
/catalog/v1/types/businessmetadatadefs/{bmName}
Delete Business Metadata Definition
deleteBusinessMetadataDef 1 param → 204400429500
GET
/catalog/v1/types/businessmetadatadefs/{bmName}
Read Business Metadata Definition
getBusinessMetadataDefByName 1 param → 200400404429500
GET
/catalog/v1/types/tagdefs
Bulk Read Tag Definitions
getAllTagDefs 1 param → 200400429500
PUT
/catalog/v1/types/tagdefs
Bulk Update Tag Definitions
updateTagDefs body → 200400429500
POST
/catalog/v1/types/tagdefs
Bulk Create Tag Definitions
createTagDefs body → 200400429500
GET
/catalog/v1/types/tagdefs/{tagName}
Read Tag Definition
getTagDefByName 1 param → 200400404429500
DELETE
/catalog/v1/types/tagdefs/{tagName}
Delete Tag Definition
deleteTagDef 1 param → 204400429500

Schemas 7

The contract defines 7 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are TagDefResponse (17 properties), AttributeDef (16 properties), TagDef (16 properties), BusinessMetadataDefResponse (14 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

TagDef
object
16 properties
BusinessMetadataDefResponse
object
14 properties
TagDefResponse
object
17 properties
ConstraintDef
object
2 properties
BusinessMetadataDef
object
13 properties
AttributeDef
object
16 properties
ErrorMessage
object
Error message of this operation
2 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

confluent-types-v1-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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ID
confluent:confluent-types-v1-api
Base URL
https://api.confluent.cloud
Docs
https://www.confluent.io/
Provider
Confluent
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