Configure an API data source

Procedure

1. In the IoT Platform console, go to the Overview page and click the ID or alias of the target Enterprise Edition instance.

2. In the navigation pane on the left, choose DataService Studio > Data Ingestion, and click the API Data Source tab.

3. On the API Data Source tab, click New API Data Source.

4. In the New API Data Source dialog box, set the following parameters and click Confirm.

   Parameter	Description
   API data source name	The name can contain Chinese characters, letters, digits, underscores (_), and parentheses (()). Maximum length: 30 characters.
   Description	The description of the API data source. Maximum length: 100 characters.
   Directly output to a custom storage table	Select a storage table. Note After you attach a storage table, you cannot write data to the table using a data parsing task. No (data must be parsed before it can be written to a table)
   Custom storage table	If you set Directly output to a custom storage table to Yes, you must select a custom storage table. Note Tables that are not initialized or are already in use cannot be selected.

5. On the API Data Source tab, find the API data source that you created and click Debug in the Actions column. You are redirected to the OpenAPI Portal, where you can call the AddDataForApiSource operation to import external data to IoT Platform. To view information such as the SDK package and SDK version, click SDK Information on the right side of the page.

Optional operations

After you create a data source, find it on the API Data Source tab and click Edit or Delete in the Actions column.