Connecting Amazon Q Business to AEM (Server) using APIs - Amazon Q Business

Connecting Amazon Q Business to AEM (Server) using APIs

You use the CreateDataSource action to connect a data source to your Amazon Q application.

Then, you use the configuration parameter to provide a JSON schema with all other configuration information specific to your data source connector.

For an example of the API request, see CreateDataSource in the Amazon Q API Reference.

AEM JSON schema

The following is the AEM JSON schema:

{ "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema#", "type": "object", "properties": { "connectionConfiguration": { "type": "object", "properties": { "repositoryEndpointMetadata": { "type": "object", "properties": { "aemUrl": { "type": "string", "pattern": "https:.*" }, "authType": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "Basic", "OAuth2" ] }, "deploymentType": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "CLOUD", "ON_PREMISE" ] } }, "required": [ "aemUrl", "authType", "deploymentType" ] } }, "required": [ "repositoryEndpointMetadata" ] }, "repositoryConfigurations": { "type": "object", "properties": { "page": { "type": "object", "properties": { "fieldMappings": { "type": "array", "items": [ { "type": "object", "properties": { "indexFieldName": { "type": "string" }, "indexFieldType": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "STRING", "STRING_LIST", "DATE", "LONG" ] }, "dataSourceFieldName": { "type": "string" }, "dateFieldFormat": { "type": "string", "pattern": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'" } }, "required": [ "indexFieldName", "indexFieldType", "dataSourceFieldName" ] } ] } }, "required": [ "fieldMappings" ] }, "asset": { "type": "object", "properties": { "fieldMappings": { "type": "array", "items": [ { "type": "object", "properties": { "indexFieldName": { "type": "string" }, "indexFieldType": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "STRING", "STRING_LIST", "DATE", "LONG" ] }, "dataSourceFieldName": { "type": "string" }, "dateFieldFormat": { "type": "string", "pattern": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'" } }, "required": [ "indexFieldName", "indexFieldType", "dataSourceFieldName" ] } ] } }, "required": [ "fieldMappings" ] } } }, "additionalProperties": { "type": "object", "properties": { "isCrawlAcl": { "type": "boolean" }, "fieldForUserId": { "type": "string" }, "timeZoneId": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "Africa/Abidjan", "Africa/Accra", "Africa/Addis_Ababa", "Africa/Algiers", "Africa/Asmara", "Africa/Asmera", "Africa/Bamako", "Africa/Bangui", "Africa/Banjul", "Africa/Bissau", "Africa/Blantyre", "Africa/Brazzaville", "Africa/Bujumbura", "Africa/Cairo", "Africa/Casablanca", "Africa/Ceuta", "Africa/Conakry", "Africa/Dakar", "Africa/Dar_es_Salaam", "Africa/Djibouti", "Africa/Douala", "Africa/El_Aaiun", "Africa/Freetown", "Africa/Gaborone", "Africa/Harare", "Africa/Johannesburg", "Africa/Juba", "Africa/Kampala", "Africa/Khartoum", "Africa/Kigali", "Africa/Kinshasa", "Africa/Lagos", "Africa/Libreville", "Africa/Lome", "Africa/Luanda", "Africa/Lubumbashi", "Africa/Lusaka", "Africa/Malabo", "Africa/Maputo", "Africa/Maseru", "Africa/Mbabane", "Africa/Mogadishu", "Africa/Monrovia", "Africa/Nairobi", "Africa/Ndjamena", "Africa/Niamey", "Africa/Nouakchott", "Africa/Ouagadougou", "Africa/Porto-Novo", "Africa/Sao_Tome", "Africa/Timbuktu", "Africa/Tripoli", "Africa/Tunis", "Africa/Windhoek", "America/Adak", "America/Anchorage", "America/Anguilla", "America/Antigua", "America/Araguaina", "America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires", "America/Argentina/Catamarca", "America/Argentina/ComodRivadavia", "America/Argentina/Cordoba", "America/Argentina/Jujuy", "America/Argentina/La_Rioja", "America/Argentina/Mendoza", "America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos", "America/Argentina/Salta", "America/Argentina/San_Juan", "America/Argentina/San_Luis", "America/Argentina/Tucuman", "America/Argentina/Ushuaia", "America/Aruba", "America/Asuncion", "America/Atikokan", "America/Atka", "America/Bahia", "America/Bahia_Banderas", "America/Barbados", "America/Belem", "America/Belize", "America/Blanc-Sablon", "America/Boa_Vista", "America/Bogota", "America/Boise", "America/Buenos_Aires", "America/Cambridge_Bay", "America/Campo_Grande", "America/Cancun", "America/Caracas", "America/Catamarca", "America/Cayenne", "America/Cayman", "America/Chicago", "America/Chihuahua", "America/Ciudad_Juarez", "America/Coral_Harbour", "America/Cordoba", "America/Costa_Rica", "America/Creston", "America/Cuiaba", "America/Curacao", "America/Danmarkshavn", "America/Dawson", "America/Dawson_Creek", "America/Denver", "America/Detroit", "America/Dominica", "America/Edmonton", "America/Eirunepe", "America/El_Salvador", "America/Ensenada", "America/Fort_Nelson", "America/Fort_Wayne", "America/Fortaleza", "America/Glace_Bay", "America/Godthab", "America/Goose_Bay", "America/Grand_Turk", "America/Grenada", "America/Guadeloupe", "America/Guatemala", "America/Guayaquil", "America/Guyana", "America/Halifax", "America/Havana", "America/Hermosillo", "America/Indiana/Indianapolis", "America/Indiana/Knox", "America/Indiana/Marengo", "America/Indiana/Petersburg", "America/Indiana/Tell_City", "America/Indiana/Vevay", "America/Indiana/Vincennes", "America/Indiana/Winamac", "America/Indianapolis", "America/Inuvik", "America/Iqaluit", "America/Jamaica", "America/Jujuy", "America/Juneau", "America/Kentucky/Louisville", "America/Kentucky/Monticello", "America/Knox_IN", "America/Kralendijk", "America/La_Paz", "America/Lima", "America/Los_Angeles", "America/Louisville", "America/Lower_Princes", "America/Maceio", "America/Managua", "America/Manaus", "America/Marigot", "America/Martinique", "America/Matamoros", "America/Mazatlan", "America/Mendoza", "America/Menominee", "America/Merida", "America/Metlakatla", "America/Mexico_City", "America/Miquelon", "America/Moncton", "America/Monterrey", "America/Montevideo", "America/Montreal", "America/Montserrat", "America/Nassau", "America/New_York", "America/Nipigon", "America/Nome", "America/Noronha", "America/North_Dakota/Beulah", "America/North_Dakota/Center", "America/North_Dakota/New_Salem", "America/Nuuk", "America/Ojinaga", "America/Panama", "America/Pangnirtung", "America/Paramaribo", "America/Phoenix", "America/Port-au-Prince", "America/Port_of_Spain", "America/Porto_Acre", "America/Porto_Velho", "America/Puerto_Rico", "America/Punta_Arenas", "America/Rainy_River", "America/Rankin_Inlet", "America/Recife", "America/Regina", "America/Resolute", "America/Rio_Branco", "America/Rosario", "America/Santa_Isabel", "America/Santarem", "America/Santiago", "America/Santo_Domingo", "America/Sao_Paulo", "America/Scoresbysund", "America/Shiprock", "America/Sitka", "America/St_Barthelemy", "America/St_Johns", "America/St_Kitts", "America/St_Lucia", "America/St_Thomas", "America/St_Vincent", "America/Swift_Current", "America/Tegucigalpa", "America/Thule", "America/Thunder_Bay", "America/Tijuana", "America/Toronto", "America/Tortola", "America/Vancouver", "America/Virgin", "America/Whitehorse", "America/Winnipeg", "America/Yakutat", "America/Yellowknife", "Antarctica/Casey", "Antarctica/Davis", "Antarctica/DumontDUrville", "Antarctica/Macquarie", "Antarctica/Mawson", "Antarctica/McMurdo", "Antarctica/Palmer", "Antarctica/Rothera", "Antarctica/South_Pole", "Antarctica/Syowa", "Antarctica/Troll", "Antarctica/Vostok", "Arctic/Longyearbyen", "Asia/Aden", "Asia/Almaty", "Asia/Amman", "Asia/Anadyr", "Asia/Aqtau", "Asia/Aqtobe", "Asia/Ashgabat", "Asia/Ashkhabad", "Asia/Atyrau", "Asia/Baghdad", "Asia/Bahrain", "Asia/Baku", "Asia/Bangkok", "Asia/Barnaul", "Asia/Beirut", "Asia/Bishkek", "Asia/Brunei", "Asia/Calcutta", "Asia/Chita", "Asia/Choibalsan", "Asia/Chongqing", "Asia/Chungking", "Asia/Colombo", "Asia/Dacca", "Asia/Damascus", "Asia/Dhaka", "Asia/Dili", "Asia/Dubai", "Asia/Dushanbe", "Asia/Famagusta", "Asia/Gaza", "Asia/Harbin", "Asia/Hebron", "Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh", "Asia/Hong_Kong", "Asia/Hovd", "Asia/Irkutsk", "Asia/Istanbul", "Asia/Jakarta", "Asia/Jayapura", "Asia/Jerusalem", "Asia/Kabul", "Asia/Kamchatka", "Asia/Karachi", "Asia/Kashgar", "Asia/Kathmandu", "Asia/Katmandu", "Asia/Khandyga", "Asia/Kolkata", "Asia/Krasnoyarsk", "Asia/Kuala_Lumpur", "Asia/Kuching", "Asia/Kuwait", "Asia/Macao", "Asia/Macau", "Asia/Magadan", "Asia/Makassar", "Asia/Manila", "Asia/Muscat", "Asia/Nicosia", "Asia/Novokuznetsk", "Asia/Novosibirsk", "Asia/Omsk", "Asia/Oral", "Asia/Phnom_Penh", "Asia/Pontianak", "Asia/Pyongyang", "Asia/Qatar", "Asia/Qostanay", "Asia/Qyzylorda", "Asia/Rangoon", "Asia/Riyadh", "Asia/Saigon", "Asia/Sakhalin", "Asia/Samarkand", "Asia/Seoul", "Asia/Shanghai", "Asia/Singapore", "Asia/Srednekolymsk", "Asia/Taipei", "Asia/Tashkent", "Asia/Tbilisi", "Asia/Tehran", "Asia/Tel_Aviv", "Asia/Thimbu", "Asia/Thimphu", "Asia/Tokyo", "Asia/Tomsk", "Asia/Ujung_Pandang", "Asia/Ulaanbaatar", "Asia/Ulan_Bator", "Asia/Urumqi", "Asia/Ust-Nera", "Asia/Vientiane", "Asia/Vladivostok", "Asia/Yakutsk", "Asia/Yangon", "Asia/Yekaterinburg", "Asia/Yerevan", "Atlantic/Azores", "Atlantic/Bermuda", "Atlantic/Canary", "Atlantic/Cape_Verde", "Atlantic/Faeroe", "Atlantic/Faroe", "Atlantic/Jan_Mayen", "Atlantic/Madeira", "Atlantic/Reykjavik", "Atlantic/South_Georgia", "Atlantic/St_Helena", "Atlantic/Stanley", "Australia/ACT", "Australia/Adelaide", "Australia/Brisbane", "Australia/Broken_Hill", "Australia/Canberra", "Australia/Currie", "Australia/Darwin", "Australia/Eucla", "Australia/Hobart", "Australia/LHI", "Australia/Lindeman", "Australia/Lord_Howe", "Australia/Melbourne", "Australia/NSW", "Australia/North", "Australia/Perth", "Australia/Queensland", "Australia/South", "Australia/Sydney", "Australia/Tasmania", "Australia/Victoria", "Australia/West", "Australia/Yancowinna", "Brazil/Acre", "Brazil/DeNoronha", "Brazil/East", "Brazil/West", "CET", "CST6CDT", "Canada/Atlantic", "Canada/Central", "Canada/Eastern", "Canada/Mountain", "Canada/Newfoundland", "Canada/Pacific", "Canada/Saskatchewan", "Canada/Yukon", "Chile/Continental", "Chile/EasterIsland", "Cuba", "EET", "EST5EDT", "Egypt", "Eire", "Etc/GMT", "Etc/GMT+0", "Etc/GMT+1", "Etc/GMT+10", "Etc/GMT+11", "Etc/GMT+12", "Etc/GMT+2", "Etc/GMT+3", "Etc/GMT+4", "Etc/GMT+5", "Etc/GMT+6", "Etc/GMT+7", "Etc/GMT+8", "Etc/GMT+9", "Etc/GMT-0", "Etc/GMT-1", "Etc/GMT-10", "Etc/GMT-11", "Etc/GMT-12", "Etc/GMT-13", "Etc/GMT-14", "Etc/GMT-2", "Etc/GMT-3", "Etc/GMT-4", "Etc/GMT-5", "Etc/GMT-6", "Etc/GMT-7", "Etc/GMT-8", "Etc/GMT-9", "Etc/GMT0", "Etc/Greenwich", "Etc/UCT", "Etc/UTC", "Etc/Universal", "Etc/Zulu", "Europe/Amsterdam", "Europe/Andorra", "Europe/Astrakhan", "Europe/Athens", "Europe/Belfast", "Europe/Belgrade", "Europe/Berlin", "Europe/Bratislava", "Europe/Brussels", "Europe/Bucharest", "Europe/Budapest", "Europe/Busingen", "Europe/Chisinau", "Europe/Copenhagen", "Europe/Dublin", "Europe/Gibraltar", "Europe/Guernsey", "Europe/Helsinki", "Europe/Isle_of_Man", "Europe/Istanbul", "Europe/Jersey", "Europe/Kaliningrad", "Europe/Kiev", "Europe/Kirov", "Europe/Kyiv", "Europe/Lisbon", "Europe/Ljubljana", "Europe/London", "Europe/Luxembourg", "Europe/Madrid", "Europe/Malta", "Europe/Mariehamn", "Europe/Minsk", "Europe/Monaco", "Europe/Moscow", "Europe/Nicosia", "Europe/Oslo", "Europe/Paris", "Europe/Podgorica", "Europe/Prague", "Europe/Riga", "Europe/Rome", "Europe/Samara", "Europe/San_Marino", "Europe/Sarajevo", "Europe/Saratov", "Europe/Simferopol", "Europe/Skopje", "Europe/Sofia", "Europe/Stockholm", "Europe/Tallinn", "Europe/Tirane", "Europe/Tiraspol", "Europe/Ulyanovsk", "Europe/Uzhgorod", "Europe/Vaduz", "Europe/Vatican", "Europe/Vienna", "Europe/Vilnius", "Europe/Volgograd", "Europe/Warsaw", "Europe/Zagreb", "Europe/Zaporozhye", "Europe/Zurich", "GB", "GB-Eire", "GMT", "GMT0", "Greenwich", "Hongkong", "Iceland", "Indian/Antananarivo", "Indian/Chagos", "Indian/Christmas", "Indian/Cocos", "Indian/Comoro", "Indian/Kerguelen", "Indian/Mahe", "Indian/Maldives", "Indian/Mauritius", "Indian/Mayotte", "Indian/Reunion", "Iran", "Israel", "Jamaica", "Japan", "Kwajalein", "Libya", "MET", "MST7MDT", "Mexico/BajaNorte", "Mexico/BajaSur", "Mexico/General", "NZ", "NZ-CHAT", "Navajo", "PRC", "PST8PDT", "Pacific/Apia", "Pacific/Auckland", "Pacific/Bougainville", "Pacific/Chatham", "Pacific/Chuuk", "Pacific/Easter", "Pacific/Efate", "Pacific/Enderbury", "Pacific/Fakaofo", "Pacific/Fiji", "Pacific/Funafuti", "Pacific/Galapagos", "Pacific/Gambier", "Pacific/Guadalcanal", "Pacific/Guam", "Pacific/Honolulu", "Pacific/Johnston", "Pacific/Kanton", "Pacific/Kiritimati", "Pacific/Kosrae", "Pacific/Kwajalein", "Pacific/Majuro", "Pacific/Marquesas", "Pacific/Midway", "Pacific/Nauru", "Pacific/Niue", "Pacific/Norfolk", "Pacific/Noumea", "Pacific/Pago_Pago", "Pacific/Palau", "Pacific/Pitcairn", "Pacific/Pohnpei", "Pacific/Ponape", "Pacific/Port_Moresby", "Pacific/Rarotonga", "Pacific/Saipan", "Pacific/Samoa", "Pacific/Tahiti", "Pacific/Tarawa", "Pacific/Tongatapu", "Pacific/Truk", "Pacific/Wake", "Pacific/Wallis", "Pacific/Yap", "Poland", "Portugal", "ROK", "Singapore", "SystemV/AST4", "SystemV/AST4ADT", "SystemV/CST6", "SystemV/CST6CDT", "SystemV/EST5", "SystemV/EST5EDT", "SystemV/HST10", "SystemV/MST7", "SystemV/MST7MDT", "SystemV/PST8", "SystemV/PST8PDT", "SystemV/YST9", "SystemV/YST9YDT", "Turkey", "UCT", "US/Alaska", "US/Aleutian", "US/Arizona", "US/Central", "US/East-Indiana", "US/Eastern", "US/Hawaii", "US/Indiana-Starke", "US/Michigan", "US/Mountain", "US/Pacific", "US/Samoa", "UTC", "Universal", "W-SU", "WET", "Zulu", "EST", "HST", "MST", "ACT", "AET", "AGT", "ART", "AST", "BET", "BST", "CAT", "CNT", "CST", "CTT", "EAT", "ECT", "IET", "IST", "JST", "MIT", "NET", "NST", "PLT", "PNT", "PRT", "PST", "SST", "VST" ] }, "pageRootPaths": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "assetRootPaths": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "crawlAssets": { "type": "boolean" }, "crawlPages": { "type": "boolean" }, "pagePathInclusionPatterns": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "pagePathExclusionPatterns": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "pageNameInclusionPatterns": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "pageNameExclusionPatterns": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "assetPathInclusionPatterns": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "assetPathExclusionPatterns": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "assetTypeInclusionPatterns": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "assetTypeExclusionPatterns": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "assetNameInclusionPatterns": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "assetNameExclusionPatterns": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "pageComponents": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object" } }, "contentFragmentVariations": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object" } }, "cugExemptedPrincipals": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "maxFileSizeInMegaBytes": { "type": "string" } }, "required": [] }, "type": { "type": "string", "pattern": "AEM" }, "enableIdentityCrawler": { "type": "boolean" }, "syncMode": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "FORCED_FULL_CRAWL", "FULL_CRAWL", "CHANGE_LOG" ] }, "secretArn": { "type": "string", "minLength": 20, "maxLength": 2048 } }, "version": { "type": "string", "anyOf": [ { "pattern": "1.0.0" } ] }, "required": [ "connectionConfiguration", "repositoryConfigurations", "syncMode", "additionalProperties", "secretArn", "type" ] }

The following table provides information about important JSON keys to configure.

Configuration Description
connectionConfiguration Configuration information for the endpoint for the data source.
repositoryEndpointMetadata The endpoint information for the data source.
aemUrl The Adobe Experience Manager host URL. For example, if you use AEM On-Premise, you include the hostname and port: http://hostname:port. Or, if you use AEM as a Cloud Service, you can use the author URL: https://author-xxxxxx-xxxxxxx.adobeaemcloud.com.
authType The type of authentication you use, whether Basic or OAuth2.
deploymentType The type of Adobe Experience Manager that you use, either CLOUD or ON-PREMISE.
repositoryConfigurations Configuration information for the content of the data source. For example, configuring specific types of content and field mappings.
  • page

  • asset

A list of objects that map the attributes or field names of your Adobe Experience Manager pages and assets to Amazon Q index field names.
additionalProperties Additional configuration options for your content in your data source.
isCrawlAcl Specify true to crawl access control information from documents.
Note

Amazon Q Business crawls ACL information to ensure responses are generated only from documents your end users have access to. See Authorization for more details.

fieldForUserId Specify field to use for UserId for ACL crawling.
timeZoneId

If you use AEM On-Premise and the time zone of your server is different than the time zone of the Amazon Q AEM connector or index, you can specify the server time zone to align with the AEM connector or index.

The default time zone for AEM On-Premise is the time zone of the Amazon Q AEM connector or index. The default time zone for AEM as a Cloud Service is Greenwich Mean Time.

  • pageRootPaths

  • assetRootPaths

A list of root paths for pages and assets. For example, the root path for a page could be /content/sub and the root path for an asset could be /content/sub/asset1.
crawlAssets Specify true to crawl assets.
crawlPages Specify true to crawl pages.
  • pagePathInclusionPatterns

  • pageNameInclusionPatterns

  • assetPathInclusionPatterns

  • assetTypeInclusionPatterns

  • assetNameInclusionPatterns

A list of regular expression patterns to include certain pages and assets in your Adobe Experience Manager data source. Pages and assets that match the patterns are included in the index. Pages and assets that don't match the patterns are excluded from the index. If a page or asset matches both an inclusion and exclusion pattern, the exclusion pattern takes precedence, and the content isn't included in the index.
  • pagePathExclusionPatterns

  • pageNameExclusionPatterns

  • assetPathExclusionPatterns

  • assetTypeInclusionPatterns

  • assetNameInclusionPatterns

A list of regular expression patterns to exclude certain pages and assets in your Adobe Experience Manager data source. Pages and assets that match the patterns are excluded from the index. Pages and assets that don't match the patterns are included in the index. If a page or asset matches both an inclusion and exclusion pattern, the exclusion pattern takes precedence, and the content isn't included in the index.
pageComponents A list of names for the specific page components that you want to index.
contentFragmentVariations A list of names for the specific saved variations of Adobe Experience Manager Content Fragments that you want to index.
maxFileSizeInMegaBytes Specify the maximum single file size limit in MBs that Amazon Q will crawl. Amazon Q will crawl only the files within the size limit you define. The default file size is 50MB. The maximum file size should be greater than 0MB and less than or equal to 50MB.
type The type of data source. Specify AEM as your data source type.
enableIdentityCrawler Specify true to use the Amazon Q identity crawler to sync identity/principal information on users and groups with access to specific documents.
Note

Amazon Q Business crawls identity information from your data source to ensure responses are generated only from documents end users have access to by default. For more information, see Identity crawler.

syncMode

Specify whether Amazon Q should update your index by syncing all documents or only new, modified, and deleted documents. You can choose between the following options:

  • Use FORCED_FULL_CRAWL to freshly re-crawl all content and replace existing content each time your data source syncs with your index.

  • Use FULL_CRAWL to incrementally crawl only new, modified, and deleted content each time your data source syncs with your index.

  • Use CHANGE_LOG to incrementally crawl only new and modified content each time your data source syncs with your index.

secretArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of an AWS Secrets Manager secret that contains the key-value pairs required to connect to your Adobe Experience Manager. The secret must contain a JSON structure with the following keys:

If using basic authentication for either AEM On-Premise or Cloud:

{ "aemUrl": "Adobe Experience Manager On-Premise host URL", "username": "username with admin permissions", "password": "password with admin permissions" }

If using OAuth 2.0 authentication for AEM On-Premise:

{ "aemUrl": "Adobe Experience Manager host URL", "clientId": "client ID", "clientSecret": "client secret", "privateKey": "private key" }

If using OAuth 2.0 authentication for AEM as a Cloud Service:

{ "clientId": "client ID", "clientSecret": "client secret", "privateKey": "private key", "orgId": "organization ID", "technicalAccountId": "technical account ID", "imsHost": "Adobe Identity Management System (IMS) host" }
version The version of this template that's currently supported.