Edit Data Item

• URL:https://<items-url>/edit(POST only)
  
• Required Capability:Default administrator role | All authorized privileges
• Version Introduced:10.4

Description

This operation edits the connection information for an existing dataItem.

Request parameters

Parameter	Details
item	The JSON representing the data item.
f	The response format. The default response format is html. Values: html | json | pjson

Example usage

Below is a sample POST request for edit, formatted for readability:

POST /webadaptor/admin/data/items/enterpriseDatabases/myDatabase/edit HTTP/1.1
Host: machine.domain.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: []

item={
  "path": "/enterpriseDatabases/myDatabase",
  "type": "egdb",
  "id": "b373de14-f2f0-4bbc-89cc-06d978537d25",
  "totalRefCount": 0,
  "info": {
    "connectionString": "ENCRYPTED_PASSWORD=22e686870727253784e7559513952413d3d2a00;SERVER=SampleDb;INSTANCE=sde:sqlserver:SampleDb;DBCLIENT=sqlserver;DB_CONNECTION_PROPERTIES=SampleDb;DATABASE=gisdata;USER=map;AUTHENTICATION_MODE=DBMS",
    "isManaged": false,
    "dataStoreConnectionType": "shared"
  }
}&f=json

JSON Response example

{"status": "success"}