Connecting Amazon Q Business to Alfresco (Cloud) using APIs - Amazon Q Business
Alfresco JSON schema

Connecting Amazon Q Business to Alfresco (Cloud) 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.

Alfresco JSON schema

The following is the Alfresco JSON schema:

{
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema#",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "connectionConfiguration": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "repositoryEndpointMetadata": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "siteId": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "repoUrl": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "webAppUrl": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "repositoryAdditionalProperties": {
              "type": "object",
              "properties": {
                "authType": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "enum": [
                    "OAuth2",
                    "Basic"
                  ]
                },
                "type": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "enum": [
                    "PAAS",
                    "ON_PREM"
                  ]
                },
                "crawlType": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "enum": [
                    "ASPECT",
                    "SITE_ID",
                    "ALL_SITES"
                  ]
                }
              }
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "repositoryEndpointMetadata"
      ]
    },
    "repositoryConfigurations": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "document": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "fieldMappings": {
              "type": "array",
              "items": {
                "anyOf": [
                  {
                    "type": "object",
                    "properties": {
                      "indexFieldName": {
                        "type": "string"
                      },
                      "indexFieldType": {
                        "type": "string",
                        "enum": [
                          "STRING",
                          "DATE",
                          "STRING_LIST",
                          "LONG"
                        ]
                      },
                      "dataSourceFieldName": {
                        "type": "string"
                      },
                      "dateFieldFormat": {
                        "type": "string",
                        "pattern": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'"
                      }
                    },
                    "required": [
                      "indexFieldName",
                      "indexFieldType",
                      "dataSourceFieldName"
                    ]
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "fieldMappings"
          ]
        },
        "comment": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "fieldMappings": {
              "type": "array",
              "items": {
                "anyOf": [
                  {
                    "type": "object",
                    "properties": {
                      "indexFieldName": {
                        "type": "string"
                      },
                      "indexFieldType": {
                        "type": "string",
                        "enum": [
                          "STRING",
                          "DATE",
                          "STRING_LIST",
                          "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"
        },
        "maxFileSizeInMegaBytes": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "fieldForUserId": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "aspectName": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "aspectProperties": {
          "type": "array"
        },
        "enableFineGrainedControl": {
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "isCrawlComment": {
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "inclusionFileNamePatterns": {
          "type": "array"
        },
        "exclusionFileNamePatterns": {
          "type": "array"
        },
        "inclusionFileTypePatterns": {
          "type": "array"
        },
        "exclusionFileTypePatterns": {
          "type": "array"
        },
        "inclusionFilePathPatterns": {
          "type": "array"
        },
        "exclusionFilePathPatterns": {
          "type": "array"
        }
      }
    },
    "type": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "ALFRESCO"
    },
    "secretArn": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 20,
      "maxLength": 2048
    },
    "syncMode": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "FORCED_FULL_CRAWL",
        "FULL_CRAWL"
      ]
    },
    "enableIdentityCrawler": {
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "version": {
      "type": "string",
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "pattern": "1.0.0"
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "connectionConfiguration",
    "repositoryConfigurations",
    "additionalProperties",
    "type",
    "secretArn"
  ]
}
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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.
siteId The identifier of the Alfresco site.
repoUrl The URL of your Alfresco repository. You can get the repository URL from your Alfresco administrator. For example, if you use Alfresco Cloud (PaaS), the repository URL could be https://company.alfrescocloud.com. Or, if you use Alfresco On-Premises, the repository URL could be https://company-alfresco-instance.company-domain.suffix:port.
webAppUrl The URL of your Alfresco user interface. You can get the Alfresco user interface URL from your Alfresco administrator. For example, the user interface URL could be https://example.com.
repositoryAdditionalProperties Additional properties for 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 by default. See Authorization for more details.
fieldForUserId Specify field to use for UserId for ACL crawling.
authType The type of authentication that you use, whether OAuth2 or Basic.
type (deployment) The type of Alfresco that you use, whether PAAS or ON-PREM.
crawlType The type of content that you want to crawl, whether ASPECT (content marked with 'Aspects' in Alfresco), SITE_ID (content within a specific Alfresco site), or ALL_SITES (content across all your Alfresco sites).
repositoryConfigurations Configuration information for the content of the data source. For example, configuring specific types of content and field mappings.

  • document

  • comment

 A list of objects that map the attributes or field names of your Alfresco documents and comments to Amazon Q index field names.
additionalProperties Additional configuration options for your content in your data source.
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.
aspectProperties

A list of specific 'Aspects' content that you want to index.
enableFineGrainedControl

true to crawl 'Aspects'.
isCrawlComment

true to index comments.

  • inclusionFileNamePatterns

  • inclusionFileTypePatterns

  • inclusionFilePathPatterns

 A list of regular expression patterns to include certain files in your Alfresco data source. Files that match the patterns are included in the index. Files that don't match the patterns are excluded from the index. If a file matches both an inclusion and exclusion pattern, the exclusion pattern takes precedence, and the file isn't included in the index.

  • exclusionFileNamePatterns

  • exclusionFileTypePatterns

  • exclusionFilePathPatterns

 A list of regular expression patterns to exclude certain files in your Alfresco data source. Files that match the patterns are excluded from the index. Files that don't match the patterns are included in the index. If a file matches both an inclusion and exclusion pattern, the exclusion pattern takes precedence, and the file isn't included in the index.
type The type of data source. Specify ALFRESCO as your data source type.
secretArn

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

If using basic authentication:

{
    "username": "username",
    "password": "password"
}

If using OAuth 2.0 authentication:

{
    "clientId": "client ID",
    "clientSecret": "client secret",
    "tokenUrl": "token URL"
}
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.
enableIdentityCrawler true to use the Amazon Q identity crawler to sync identity/principal information on users and groups with access to certain 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.
version The version of this template that's currently supported.