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Property - AWS IoT SiteWise

Property

Contains asset property information.

Contents

dataType

The property data type.

Type: String

Valid Values: STRING | INTEGER | DOUBLE | BOOLEAN | STRUCT

Required: Yes

id

The ID of the asset property.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Fixed length of 36.

Pattern: ^[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12}$

Required: Yes

name

The name of the property.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.

Pattern: [^\u0000-\u001F\u007F]+

Required: Yes

alias

The alias that identifies the property, such as an OPC-UA server data stream path (for example, /company/windfarm/3/turbine/7/temperature). For more information, see Mapping industrial data streams to asset properties in the AWS IoT SiteWise User Guide.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1000.

Pattern: [^\u0000-\u001F\u007F]+

Required: No

externalId

The external ID of the asset property. For more information, see Using external IDs in the AWS IoT SiteWise User Guide.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 2. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: [a-zA-Z0-9_][a-zA-Z_\-0-9.:]*[a-zA-Z0-9_]+

Required: No

notification

The asset property's notification topic and state. For more information, see UpdateAssetProperty.

Type: PropertyNotification object

Required: No

path

The structured path to the property from the root of the asset.

Type: Array of AssetPropertyPathSegment objects

Required: No

type

The property type (see PropertyType). A property contains one type.

Type: PropertyType object

Required: No

unit

The unit (such as Newtons or RPM) of the asset property.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.

Pattern: [^\u0000-\u001F\u007F]+

Required: No

See Also

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

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