API Overview

This page gives an overview of APIs.

1. Introduction

You can query or manipulate any data on the Cinchy Platform using the Cinchy Query Language (CQL). You can then save that as a Saved Query which allows it to be accessed via an API endpoint.

You will need to first a Cinchy bearer token (see Authentication), and then you can either access a pre-defined Saved Query via the Saved Query endpoints, or perform freeform querying via the ExecuteCQL endpoint.

Note that regardless of how you query or manipulate data on the platform, it is always associated back to an account.

2. Master List of Endpoints

The following is a list of common API endpoints. These follow the format of <baseurl>/endpoint

• /admin/index

• /apps/modelloader

• /healthcheck

• /metaforms/healthcheck

• /cache/clear

• /API/ExecuteCQL

• /API/MyDomain/MyQuery

• /identity/connect/token

• /api/getstsauthorityuri

• /api/jobs

2.1 /admin/index

Description
This endpoint will bring you to a page with your logs and health check.

2.2 /apps/modelloader

Description
This endpoint will open the model loader.

2.3 /healthcheck

Description
This endpoint will bring you to a page with your platform health check.

2.4 /metaforms/healthcheck

Description
This endpoint will bring you to a page with your Meta-Forms health check.

2.5 /cache/clear

Description
This endpoint will delete your platform cache data.

2.6 /API/ExecuteCQL

POST: https://<Cinchy Web URL>/API/ExecuteCQL

Description
You can execute CQL directly without creating a Saved Query using the below endpoint:

Query Parameters:

Name	Data Type	Description
CompressJSON	boolean	Default is true. Add this parameter and set to false if you want the JSON that is returned to be expanded rather than having the schema being returned separately.
ResultFormat	string	XML JSON CSV TSV PSV PROTOBUF
Type	string	QUERY - Query (Approved Data Only) DRAFT_QUERY - Query (Include Draft Changes) SCALAR - Scalar NONQUERY - Non Query, such as an insert or delete VERSION_HISTORY_QUERY - Query (Include Version History)
ConnectionId	string	​
TransactionId	string	When one or more requests share the same TransactionId, they are considered to be within the scope of a single transaction.
Query	string	The CQL query statement to execute
Parameters	boolean	See below on format for the parameters.
SchemaOnly	integer	Defaults to false.
StartRow	integer	When implementing pagination, specify a starting offset. Combine with RowCount to set the size of the data window.
RowCount	integer	When implementing pagination, specify the number of rows to retrieve for the current page. Combine with StartRow to set the paging position.
CommandTimeout	string	Use this parameter to override the default timeout (30s) for long running queries. In seconds.
UserId	string	ID of a user with authorization to run the saved query.

Header Parameters:

Name	Data Type	Description
Authorization	string	Bearer <access_token> The access token can be either a Bearer token or a Personal Access token. See Authentication for details.

Responses:

• 200 (OK)

Parameters

To pass in parameters in your executeCQL, you will need to pass in sets of parameters in the following format. So if you have one parameter then you would pass in 3 query parameters beginning with Parameters[0]. , and if you have a second parameter you would include an additional 3 query parameters beginning with Parameters[1]. .

Query String Parameter Name	Content
Parameters[n].ParameterName	Name of the parameter that is in your query, including the '@'. Ex. @name
Parameters[n].XmlSerializedValue	XML Serialized version of the value of that parameter. Ex. "test"
Parameters[n].ValueType	Datatype of the value. Ex. System.String

2.7 /API/MyDomain/MyQuery

GET: https://<Cinchy Web URL>/API/MyDomain/MyQuery

Description
You can use this endpoint to access your Cinchy Saved Queries via API. To access any Cinchy Saved Query API, pass the access token, received from either the Bearer Token Request or created as a PAT, in the Authorization header, prefixed by "Bearer". For more information, see here.

Query Parameters

Name	Data Type	Description
WrapSingleRecordInArray	boolean	Default is true. Add this parameter and set to false if you want single record results returned as an object instead of within an array.
@param	string	If you have parameters in your query, you pass them indirectly as query parameters.
CompressJSON	boolean	Default is true. Add this parameter and set to false if you want the JSON that is returned to be expanded rather than having the schema being returned separately.

Header Parameters

Name	Data Type	Description
Authorization	string	Bearer <access_token> The access token can be either a Bearer token or a Personal Access token. See Authentication for details.

Responses

200: The request has successfully returned the record set.

< HTTP/2 200 
< cache-control: private, s-maxage=0
< content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
< server: Microsoft-IIS/10.0
< x-aspnetmvc-version: 5.2
< access-control-allow-origin: *
< x-aspnet-version: 4.0.30319
< x-powered-by: ASP.NET
< date: Wed, 1 Aug 2020 17:40:13 GMT
< content-length: 2985

400: The request could not be understood, the client is sending a request with incomplete data, poorly constructed data or invalid data.

Optional Validation Logic: To validate query business / control conditional logic failure can be added at the beginning of the API which can intentionally generate a 400 error code (using RAISERROR) and stopping (using RETURN) the API. If there is no RETURN the errors will accumulate and will be provided at the end of running the API.

An attribute (X-Cinchy Error) will be returned in the HTTP header with the custom RAISERROR message indicated (see example)

Example:
--given the following CQL used within a saved query:

IF (ISNULL(@Int,0) = 0)
BEGIN
  RAISERROR('Invalid parameter: @Int cannot be NULL or zero',18,0)
  RETURN
END
IF (ISNULL(@String,'') = '' OR ISNULL(@String,'') = 'X')
BEGIN
  RAISERROR('Invalid parameter: @String cannot be NULL or empty or X',18,0)
  RETURN
END

--note "X-Cinchy-Error" in the sample response:

< HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
< Cache-Control: private
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
< Server: Microsoft-IIS/10.0
< X-AspNetMvc-Version: 5.2
< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
< X-Cinchy-Error: Invalid parameter: @Int cannot be NULL or zero
< X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
< X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
< Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2020 17:43:04 GMT
< Content-Length: 4517

401: The saved query API endpoint will return a 401 error code when you provide invalid credentials, this includes not providing credentials, expired credentials and incorrect credentials.

< HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
< Cache-Control: private
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
< Server: Microsoft-IIS/10.0
< X-AspNetMvc-Version: 5.2
< X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319

2.8 /identity/connect/token

POST: https://<Cinchy SSO URL>/identity/connect/token

Definition
The Post Request will return an access token which can be used to access Cinchy APIs.

Header Parameters

Name	Data Type	Description
Content-type	string	application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Body Parameters

Name	Data Type	Description
Token	string	You can pass in your base64 encoded SAML token instead of your Cinchy username and password
Client_id	string	Client Id value from Integrated Clients table
Client_secret	string	Guid value from Integrated Clients table
Username	string	Username of Cinchy user
Password	string	Password for Cinchy user in plain text
Grant_Type	string	Set as "password" for username/password authentication. Set as "saml2" for saml token authentication.
Scope	string	Set as "js_api"

Responses

200: The request is successful

// {
    "access_token": "eyUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6IkE4M0UwQTFEQTY1MzE0NkZENUQxOTFDMzRDNTQ0RDJDODYyMzMzMzkiLCJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJ4NXQiOiJxRDRLSGFaVEZHX1YwWkhEVEZSTkxJWWpNemsifQ.eyJuYmYiOjE1NTQxMzE4MjAsImV4cCI6MTU1NDEzNTQyMCwiaXNzIjoiaHR0cDovL2xvY2FsaG9zdDo4MDgxIiwiYXVkIjpbImh0dHA6Ly9sb2NhbGhvc3Q6ODA4MS9yZXNvdXJjZXMiLCJqc19hcGkiXSwiY2xpZW50X2lkIjoiYWJjIiwic3ViIjoiMSIsImF1dGhfdGltZSI6MTU1NDEzMTgyMCwiaWRwIjoibG9jYWwiLCJwcm9maWxlIjoiQWRtaW5pc3RyYXRvciIsImVtYWlsIjoiYWRtaW5AY2luY2h5LmNvIiwicm9sZSI6IkNpbmNoeSBVc2VyIEFjY291bnQiLCJpZCI6ImFkbWluIiwic2NvcGUiOlsianNfYXBpIl0sImFtciI6WyJjdXN0b20iXX0.N7drAlvtFiQoN4njs1rd5ZnTvJ_x8ZEnUEi6G1GjR4FS5FyS4hC6xdsT-Zhn1yRJQMkI2HA7HMPWwjsfkZ0IlBwuC25ECkGhbjv7DlK6baHQIkqeB0aTB9aDZSxWfDhV66O0dhby6EIEa4YuGspyjQMsDpx_LimmE9alfsUU-608944ZZkS6lBJlJ9LFCC5hYKARQIMZavrftz0tFUBsDU0T2fHpLNGo5GGwG1f9jUZTWTu7s3C05EsgboW3scUfDzjS_Wf55ExwhopIg9SD6ktHYYNRaCPtfMhU-e43l6a2LH-XrmP7OfoxJP2bvTMcvQCQWUEizKHuxKLl-ehWBw",
    "expires_in": 3600,
    "token_type": "Bearer"
}

400: For invalid parameters, a 400 error will be returned with the following JSON response with a description of the error.

Example:
{
  "error": "invalid_grant",
  "error_description": "Invalid username or password"
}

2.9 /api/getstsauthorityuri

Description
This will return your IDP URL endpoint.

2.10 /api/jobs

POST: https://<Connections-URL>/api/jobs

Description
This endpoint can be used to trigger a batch data sync job that has been configured in Cinchy.

Request Header Parameters

Name	Data Type	Description
Authorization	string	Bearer <access_token> Note that this endpoint does not support Personal Access Tokens. See Authentication for details.
Content-Type	String	multipart/form-data

Body Parameters

Note that the parameter names "files" and "options" are both case sensitive and must use lowercase in your JSON. The contents of the parameters themselves are not case sensitive.

Name	Data Type	Description
files	binary	The URL to any file(s) needed to be uploaded to be used in place of a parameter in the data sync
options	string	A JSON string of the data sync options. See here for the structure of this JSON string.

Options - JSON Structure

 {
     "paramValues": {
       "<name of parameter in sync>": {
         "isFile": <set to true if this parameter corresponds to a file, otherwise set it to false>,
         "value": "<value of the parameter, if the parameter corresponds to a file, then it should match the file name that was uploaded>"
       }
     },
     "server": "<cinchy url without protocol>",
     "useHttps": <true or false, depending on the server's protocol>,
     "userId": "<username of the user you want to run the data sync as, leave as null if you want to run it as the user associated with the access token used in the Authorization header>",
     "password": "<password of the user you want to run the data sync as, leave as null if you want to run it as the user associated with the access token used in the Authorization header>",
     "model": "Cinchy",
     "feed": "<name of the data sync configuration>",
     "batchsize": <Set to 5000 for the default behaviour - the size of the batches when performing inserts/updates/deletes in the target, set to 5000 if you want the default behaviour>,
     "retrievalbatchsize": <Set to 5000 for the default behaviour -  this is the size of the batches when retrieving records from the source to process>,
     "writeToFile": <Set to true for the default behaviour - This will ensure it will write records to temp files on disk to save memory on larger syncs. If this is set to false, it'll store source records in memory, which will be faster for smaller data syncs>
   }

Endpoint Example

curl --request POST \
  --url <cinchy.com>/connections/api/jobs \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer xxx’ \
  --header 'Content-Type: multipart/form-data' \
  --form files=@/Users/shawn/Worker.zip \
  --form 'options={ "paramValues": {  "file": {   "isFile": true,   "value": "FBL costing model with upload to SF.xlsx"  } }, "server": "sandbox.cinchy.net/technicalsales", "useHttps": true, "password": null, "userId": null, "model": "Cinchy", "feed": "Excel -> Cinchy", "batchsize": 5000, "retrievalbatchsize": 5000, "writeToFile": true}'

Responses

200: The request was successful.

{
   executionId = "<The Cinchy Id of the data sync execution, it will correspond go the Cinchy Id of the newly created record in the [Cinchy.[Execution Log] table>"
}

400: The request could not be completed.

{
   status = <Http status code>,
   message = "<Error message>"
}