Lightdash Exploring API declares
2 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the cookie as connect.sid (session_cookie).
An API key is passed in the header as Authorization (api_key).
api_key — Value should be 'ApiKey '
Paths & Operations 3
Across 3 paths, the API surfaces 3 operations — 3 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
The contract defines 93 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Metric (33 properties), AdditionalMetric (23 properties), Field (20 properties), MetricQueryRequest (16 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
DateZoom
object
2 properties
FieldUrl
object
2 properties2 required
DateGranularity
string
Metric
object
33 properties8 required
PreAggregateMissReason.NO_PRE_AGGREGATES_DEFINED
string
ApiRunQueryResponse
object
2 properties2 required
FieldType.METRIC
string
ApiErrorPayload
object
The Error object is returned from the api any time there is an error. The message contains
2 properties2 required
Pick_Metric.formatOptions_
object
From T, pick a set of properties whose keys are in the union K
1 property
Pick_Dimension.formatOptions_
object
From T, pick a set of properties whose keys are in the union K
From T, pick a set of properties whose keys are in the union K
3 properties3 required
TableCalculationTemplateType.WINDOW_FUNCTION
string
MetricQueryRequest
object
16 properties7 required
AnyType
This AnyType is an alias for any The goal is to make it easier to identify any type in the codebase without having to eslint-disable all the time These are onl…
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