Collaboration area for the Pentaho BI Server Web Tier APIs. Although Web Services have been available in the BI Server for a long time, they are not documented and not cast in stone yet.
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| First cut at high level model - Andy Grohe |
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Use Cases:
As a designer, I would like to use the platform Web API's to build custom BI solutions. NOTE for a recommended list of Pentaho resource-oriented services, see Pentaho Resources
Security
- Retrieve a list of platform users
- Retrieve a list of platform roles
- CRUD for Access Control Lists
- CRUD for user preferences
- Authenticate an external user to the platform
Metadata/Adhoc
- Retrieve a list of Business Models available to the logged in user from the Solution Repository
- Retrieve a list of business views for a business model
- Retrieve a list of business columns for a business view
- Add new business views and columns to an existing business model
- Execute a metadata based query without previously creating an action
OLAP/Analysis
- Retrieve a list of OLAP schemas available to the logged in user from the Solution Repository
- Retrieve a list of cubes (regular or virtual) for an OLAP schema
- Retrieve a list of dimensions, measures and named sets for a cube
- Execute an OLAP/MDX/XMLA based query without previously creating an action
- Retrieve a list of roles for an OLAP schema
- Retrieve a list of parameters for an OLAP schema
Solution Repository
- Retrieve a list of actions available to the logged in user from the Solution Repository
- Retrieve a list of actions currently being executed by the platform (either scheduled or background)
- Retrieve a list of previously executed actions from the content repository (either scheduled or background)
- Retrieve a list of content handlers for all types of actions (xaction=ViewAction, analysisview.xactcion=pivot, etc...)
- Execute an action and display generated content (generally HTML)
- Execute an action and retrieve the results data (JSON or XML)
- Discover the parameters for an action before execution (JSON or XML)
- Add a new action to the repository
- Remove an action from the repsitory
- Update an existing action state to the repository
- Load existing action state from the repository
- Schedule action for immediate, delayed or recurring execution
- Specify action delivery to (screen, inbox, email, rss feed, printer, jms, file)
- Update action ACL
- Retrieve existing action input and output parameters from repository (source, datatype, and defaults)
- Add a user rating to an action
- View user ratings for one or more actions
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