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CreateConnection - AWS Glue

CreateConnection

Creates a connection definition in the Data Catalog.

Connections used for creating federated resources require the IAM glue:PassConnection permission.

Request Syntax

{ "CatalogId": "string", "ConnectionInput": { "AthenaProperties": { "string" : "string" }, "AuthenticationConfiguration": { "AuthenticationType": "string", "BasicAuthenticationCredentials": { "Password": "string", "Username": "string" }, "CustomAuthenticationCredentials": { "string" : "string" }, "KmsKeyArn": "string", "OAuth2Properties": { "AuthorizationCodeProperties": { "AuthorizationCode": "string", "RedirectUri": "string" }, "OAuth2ClientApplication": { "AWSManagedClientApplicationReference": "string", "UserManagedClientApplicationClientId": "string" }, "OAuth2Credentials": { "AccessToken": "string", "JwtToken": "string", "RefreshToken": "string", "UserManagedClientApplicationClientSecret": "string" }, "OAuth2GrantType": "string", "TokenUrl": "string", "TokenUrlParametersMap": { "string" : "string" } }, "SecretArn": "string" }, "ConnectionProperties": { "string" : "string" }, "ConnectionType": "string", "Description": "string", "MatchCriteria": [ "string" ], "Name": "string", "PhysicalConnectionRequirements": { "AvailabilityZone": "string", "SecurityGroupIdList": [ "string" ], "SubnetId": "string" }, "PythonProperties": { "string" : "string" }, "SparkProperties": { "string" : "string" }, "ValidateCredentials": boolean, "ValidateForComputeEnvironments": [ "string" ] }, "Tags": { "string" : "string" } }

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

CatalogId

The ID of the Data Catalog in which to create the connection. If none is provided, the AWS account ID is used by default.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.

Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\t]*

Required: No

ConnectionInput

A ConnectionInput object defining the connection to create.

Type: ConnectionInput object

Required: Yes

Tags

The tags you assign to the connection.

Type: String to string map

Map Entries: Minimum number of 0 items. Maximum number of 50 items.

Key Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Value Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.

Required: No

Response Syntax

{ "CreateConnectionStatus": "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.

CreateConnectionStatus

The status of the connection creation request. The request can take some time for certain authentication types, for example when creating an OAuth connection with token exchange over VPC.

Type: String

Valid Values: READY | IN_PROGRESS | FAILED

Errors

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

AlreadyExistsException

A resource to be created or added already exists.

HTTP Status Code: 400

GlueEncryptionException

An encryption operation failed.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidInputException

The input provided was not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

OperationTimeoutException

The operation timed out.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNumberLimitExceededException

A resource numerical limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 400

See Also

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

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