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Qlik Sense

Qlik Sense Datafiles API

The datafiles API from Qlik Sense — 9 operation(s) for datafiles.

Documentation Provider Profile APIs.io OpenAPI GitHub

Qlik Sense Datafiles API is one of 135 APIs that Qlik Sense publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Data Files. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, and authentication docs.

This API exposes 12 operations across 9 paths, and defines 25 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://{tenant}.{region}.qlikcloud.com.

12 operations 9 paths 25 schemas 1 DELETE5 GET5 POST1 PUT

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
Base URL
wss://your-tenant.qlikcloud.com/app/
Resource Areas
1

Paths & Operations 12

Across 9 paths, the API surfaces 12 operations — 1 DELETE, 5 GET, 5 POST, 1 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

datafiles 12
GET
/api/v1/data-files
Get descriptive info for the specified data files
getApiV1DataFiles 17 params → 200400403
POST
/api/v1/data-files
Upload a new data file or create a new folder
postApiV1DataFiles body → 201400403409413423501
GET
/api/v1/data-files/{id}
Get descriptive info for the specified data file
getApiV1DataFilesById 1 param → 200400403404
PUT
/api/v1/data-files/{id}
Re-upload an existing data file or update an existing folder
putApiV1DataFilesById 1 param body → 201400403404409413423
DELETE
/api/v1/data-files/{id}
Delete the specified data file or folder.
deleteApiV1DataFilesById 1 param → 204400403404
POST
/api/v1/data-files/{id}/actions/change-owner
Change the owner of an existing data file or folder
postApiV1DataFilesByIdActionsChangeOwner 1 param body → 204400403404409423
POST
/api/v1/data-files/{id}/actions/change-space
Change the space that an existing data file or folder resides in
postApiV1DataFilesByIdActionsChangeSpace 1 param body → 204400403404409423
POST
/api/v1/data-files/actions/change-space
Change the spaces that a set of existing data files or folders reside in a a…
postApiV1DataFilesActionsChangeSpace body → 207400
POST
/api/v1/data-files/actions/delete
Delete the specified set of data files and/or folders as a single batch
postApiV1DataFilesActionsDelete body → 207400
GET
/api/v1/data-files/connections
Get the list of built-in connections used by the engine to load/write data files
getApiV1DataFilesConnections 8 params → 200400403
GET
/api/v1/data-files/connections/{id}
Get the built-in connection used by the engine to load/write data files given a…
getApiV1DataFilesConnectionsById 1 param → 200403404
GET
/api/v1/data-files/quotas
Get quota information for the calling user
getApiV1DataFilesQuotas → 200400403

Schemas 25

The contract defines 25 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are DataFileUploadResponse (16 properties), SpaceStatsResponse (11 properties), FolderStatsResponse (11 properties), ConnectionsResponse (6 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

DataFileBatchDeleteRequest
object
3 properties 1 required
SpaceStatsResponse
object
11 properties 11 required
LinkResponse
object
1 property
GetDataFileInfosSortField
string
Members:
FolderStatsResponse
object
11 properties 11 required
ConnectionsResponse
object
6 properties 4 required
DataFilePermission
string
Members:
BatchChangeSpaceItem
object
2 properties 1 required
GetConnectionsResponse
object
2 properties 2 required
ChangeDataFileSpaceRequest
object
1 property
PutDataFileFolderMergeBehavior
string
If a SourceId is specified, and a folder is being updated by this PUT operation, this specifies how the source folder contents should be applied to the target…
GetDataFileInfosResponse
object
2 properties 2 required
MultiStatusResponseItem
object
5 properties 3 required
MultiStatusResponse
object
1 property 1 required
LinksResponse
object
3 properties 3 required
ErrorCode
string
Fine-grained error codes for data-files REST operations. For operations which do not have a more fine-grained error code, the error code is set to the HTTP sta…
ErrorResponse
object
1 property 1 required
ErrorResponseItem
object
3 properties 1 required
QuotaResponse
object
6 properties 6 required
DataFileBatchChangeSpaceRequest
object
Specifies the list of data file change space operations in a single batch.
1 property 1 required
DataFileUploadResponse
object
16 properties 7 required
BatchDeleteAllBySpaceItem
object
1 property 1 required
BatchDeleteItem
object
1 property 1 required
GetConnectionsSortField
string
Members:
ChangeDataFileOwnerRequest
object
1 property 1 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

qliksense-datafiles-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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API Details
ID
qliksense:qliksense-datafiles-api
Base URL
wss://your-tenant.qlikcloud.com/app/
Docs
https://qlik.dev/apis/json-rpc/qix
Provider
Qlik Sense
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