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Add Infotons and Fields

Description

CM-Well allows you to create your own infotons and triples as well as read existing ones. You can create new infotons in CM-Well, and add their field values by adding triples with the new infoton as their subject. To do this, you send a POST command to the _in endpoint.entity

When you add a field and its value, you add a triple with this format:

<infotonURI> <fieldID> <fieldValue>

If the first value does not refer to an existing infoton, the call will create both a new infoton and its field value. The fieldID must be in URI format (see Field Name Formats).

Note

To add more than one triple at a time (for instance, to add an infoton while at the same time adding some of its attributes), simply include all triples to add in the call's payload.

Syntax

URL: <cm-well-host>/_in

REST verb: POST

Mandatory parameters: Triples to add.

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Template:

curl -X POST "<cm-well-host>/_in?format=<format>" --data-binary <triples to add>

URL example: N/A

Curl example (REST API):

curl -X POST "<cm-well-host>/_in?format=ttl" -H "Content-Type: text/plain" --data-binary @curlInput.txt

File Contents

<http://data.com/1-12345678> a <http://data.com/Person>; 
    <http://ont.com/bermuda/hasName> "Fred Fredson" .

Special Parameters

Parameter	Description	Values	Example
priority	If this flag appears in an update call, that call receives priority relative to non-priority calls. To use this flag, you must also pass the X-CM-WELL-TOKEN request header, with a token that grants access to the priority feature. This feature should be used with discretion so as not to flood the priority queue.	None	/_in?format=ttl&priority...

Code Example

Call

curl -X POST "<cm-well-host>/_in?format=ttl" -H "Content-Type: text/plain" --data-binary @curlInput.txt

File Contents

<http://example.org/Individuals/FredFredson> a <http://data.com/Person>; 
    <http://ont.com/bermuda/hasName> "Fred Fredson" .

Results

The result of the call above will simply be a success code. We can see the new infoton by running the following command:

curl -X GET "<cm-well-host>/example.org/Individuals/FredFredson?format=ttl"

    @prefix nn:<cm-well-host>/meta/nn#> .
    @prefix bermuda: <http://ont.com/bermuda/> .
    @prefix rdf:   <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
    @prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
    @prefix sys:   <cm-well-host>/meta/sys#> .
    @prefix o: <http://example.org/Individuals/> .

    o:FredFredson  a  <http://data.com/Person> ;
    sys:dataCenter"dc1" ;
    sys:indexTime "1465231037915"^^xsd:long ;
    sys:lastModified  "2016-06-06T16:37:16.863Z"^^xsd:dateTime ;
    sys:parent"/example.org/Individuals" ;
    sys:path  "/example.org/Individuals/FredFredson" ;
    sys:type  "ObjectInfoton" ;
    sys:uuid  "ab8a75b12b158b4c305c3c2e52cf5758" ;
    bermuda:hasName   "Fred Fredson" .    

Note

• See CM-Well Input and Output Formats to learn about the formats that CM-Well supports.
• If you are creating new infotons (which represent new entities), you will need to consult with the Information Architecture team about naming conventions.
• If you add a value for a field that already exists, the first value is not overwritten. Instead, a second triple relationship is created, or in other word, another field with the same name and a different value is created. To learn how to overwrite a field value, see Replace Field Values.
• When adding a new field value, you must use the full URI field name format, and not the prefix format (see Field Name Formats).
• Some RDF formats (such as N3 and Turtle) support the special "a" type predicate, which indicates that the subject "is a" typed entity (as defined by the third element in the triple). The "a" predicate is shorthand for <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type>.
• See The Protocol System Field to learn how the protocol value (http or https) of the infoton subject's URL is stored and handled.

Related Topics

Replace Field Values

CM-Well Input and Output Formats