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DescribeConnector - AmazonAppFlow

DescribeConnector

Describes the given custom connector registered in your AWS account. This API can be used for custom connectors that are registered in your account and also for Amazon authored connectors.

Request Syntax

POST /describe-connector HTTP/1.1 Content-type: application/json { "connectorLabel": "string", "connectorType": "string" }

URI Request Parameters

The request does not use any URI parameters.

Request Body

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

connectorLabel

The label of the connector. The label is unique for each ConnectorRegistration in your AWS account. Only needed if calling for CUSTOMCONNECTOR connector type/.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 256.

Pattern: [a-zA-Z0-9][\w!@#.-]+

Required: No

connectorType

The connector type, such as CUSTOMCONNECTOR, Saleforce, Marketo. Please choose CUSTOMCONNECTOR for Lambda based custom connectors.

Type: String

Valid Values: Salesforce | Singular | Slack | Redshift | S3 | Marketo | Googleanalytics | Zendesk | Servicenow | Datadog | Trendmicro | Snowflake | Dynatrace | Infornexus | Amplitude | Veeva | EventBridge | LookoutMetrics | Upsolver | Honeycode | CustomerProfiles | SAPOData | CustomConnector | Pardot

Required: Yes

Response Syntax

HTTP/1.1 200 Content-type: application/json { "connectorConfiguration": { "authenticationConfig": { "customAuthConfigs": [ { "authParameters": [ { "connectorSuppliedValues": [ "string" ], "description": "string", "isRequired": boolean, "isSensitiveField": boolean, "key": "string", "label": "string" } ], "customAuthenticationType": "string" } ], "isApiKeyAuthSupported": boolean, "isBasicAuthSupported": boolean, "isCustomAuthSupported": boolean, "isOAuth2Supported": boolean, "oAuth2Defaults": { "authCodeUrls": [ "string" ], "oauth2CustomProperties": [ { "connectorSuppliedValues": [ "string" ], "description": "string", "isRequired": boolean, "isSensitiveField": boolean, "key": "string", "label": "string", "type": "string" } ], "oauth2GrantTypesSupported": [ "string" ], "oauthScopes": [ "string" ], "tokenUrls": [ "string" ] } }, "canUseAsDestination": boolean, "canUseAsSource": boolean, "connectorArn": "string", "connectorDescription": "string", "connectorLabel": "string", "connectorMetadata": { "Amplitude": { }, "CustomerProfiles": { }, "Datadog": { }, "Dynatrace": { }, "EventBridge": { }, "GoogleAnalytics": { "oAuthScopes": [ "string" ] }, "Honeycode": { "oAuthScopes": [ "string" ] }, "InforNexus": { }, "Marketo": { }, "Pardot": { }, "Redshift": { }, "S3": { }, "Salesforce": { "dataTransferApis": [ "string" ], "oauth2GrantTypesSupported": [ "string" ], "oAuthScopes": [ "string" ] }, "SAPOData": { }, "ServiceNow": { }, "Singular": { }, "Slack": { "oAuthScopes": [ "string" ] }, "Snowflake": { "supportedRegions": [ "string" ] }, "Trendmicro": { }, "Upsolver": { }, "Veeva": { }, "Zendesk": { "oAuthScopes": [ "string" ] } }, "connectorModes": [ "string" ], "connectorName": "string", "connectorOwner": "string", "connectorProvisioningConfig": { "lambda": { "lambdaArn": "string" } }, "connectorProvisioningType": "string", "connectorRuntimeSettings": [ { "connectorSuppliedValueOptions": [ "string" ], "dataType": "string", "description": "string", "isRequired": boolean, "key": "string", "label": "string", "scope": "string" } ], "connectorType": "string", "connectorVersion": "string", "isPrivateLinkEnabled": boolean, "isPrivateLinkEndpointUrlRequired": boolean, "logoURL": "string", "registeredAt": number, "registeredBy": "string", "supportedApiVersions": [ "string" ], "supportedDataTransferApis": [ { "Name": "string", "Type": "string" } ], "supportedDataTransferTypes": [ "string" ], "supportedDestinationConnectors": [ "string" ], "supportedOperators": [ "string" ], "supportedSchedulingFrequencies": [ "string" ], "supportedTriggerTypes": [ "string" ], "supportedWriteOperations": [ "string" ] } }

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

connectorConfiguration

Configuration info of all the connectors that the user requested.

Type: ConnectorConfiguration object

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

InternalServerException

An internal service error occurred during the processing of your request. Try again later.

HTTP Status Code: 500

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request (such as the source or destination connector profile) is not found.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ValidationException

The request has invalid or missing parameters.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

Describing the given connector

This example shows a sample request for the DescribeConnector API and a sample response.

Sample Request

{ "connectorType": "connectorType", "connectorLabel": "connectorLabel" }

Sample Response

{ "connectorConfiguration": { "authenticationConfig": null, "canUseAsDestination": true, "canUseAsSource": true, "connectorArn": null, "connectorDescription": "Salesforce", "connectorLabel": null, "connectorMetadata": { "Amplitude": null, "AppIntegrations": null, "CustomerProfiles": null, "Datadog": null, "Dynatrace": null, "EventBridge": null, "GoogleAnalytics": null, "Honeycode": null, "InforNexus": null, "Locke": null, "Marketo": null, "Pardot": null, "Redshift": null, "S3": null, "SAPOData": null, "Salesforce": { "oAuthScopes": [ "api", "refresh_token", "id" ] }, "ServiceNow": null, "Singular": null, "Slack": null, "Snowflake": null, "Trendmicro": null, "Upsolver": null, "Veeva": null, "Zendesk": null }, "connectorModes": null, "connectorName": null, "connectorOwner": null, "connectorProvisioningConfig": null, "connectorProvisioningType": null, "connectorRuntimeSettings": null, "connectorType": "SALESFORCE", "connectorVersion": null, "isPrivateLinkEnabled": true, "isPrivateLinkEndpointUrlRequired": false, "logoURL": "insert-logo-here", "registeredAt": null, "registeredBy": null, "supportedApiVersions": null, "supportedDestinationConnectors": [ "S3", "Snowflake", "Redshift", "Salesforce", "EventBridge", "LookoutMetrics", "Locke", "Honeycode", "Upsolver", "CustomerProfiles", "Zendesk", "Marketo", "CustomConnector" ], "supportedOperators": null, "supportedSchedulingFrequencies": [ "BYMINUTE", "HOURLY", "DAILY", "WEEKLY", "MONTHLY", "ONCE" ], "supportedTriggerTypes": [ "Scheduled", "OnDemand", "Event" ], "supportedWriteOperations": null } }

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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