Publish a Dataset (API)

Time required: 5 minutes

Prerequisites

You must have already:

• Signed up for a Matatika account
• Created a workspace through the Matatika app or API

Introduction

When you “publish a dataset” you are creating a data view or visualisation within a workspace. A dataset must have an unique identifier within a workspace, which is achieved through an alias, and you can even publish an empty dataset using just an alias. In this example, we will provide a some raw data and a simple visualisation.

First, we will need to obtain the workspace ID of the workspace we wish to publish our dataset to. Following the same steps as in Making Your First API Call for your preferred API client, we can perform a GET request to the /workspaces endpoint to return a collection of the workspaces our profile is a member of. The response should contain the details of the workspace we created when signing into the Matatika app for the first time. From here, we will need to find the id property and extract its value - our workspace ID.

Now, we will perform a POST request to the workspaces/{workspace-id}/datasets path in order to publish a dataset to our workspace, providing the following fields in the request body:

cURL

Again, make sure to substitute $ACCESS_TOKEN or %ACCESS_TOKEN%with your API token and $WORKSPACE_ID or %WORKSPACE_ID% with your workspace ID.

macOS/Linux

curl -i \
    -H "Content-Type: application/hal+json" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN" \
    -d '{' \
    '"alias": "planet-orbits", ' \
    '"title": "Planet Orbits in Our Solar System (Mercury-Saturn)", ' \
    '"description": "Sun orbit data for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn", ' \
    '"questions": "How many Earth-years does it take for Jupiter to orbit the sun?", ' \
    '"rawData": "[[\"Planet\", \"Orbit Distance (Light-hours)\", \"Orbit Duration (Earth-years)\"],[\"Mercury\", 0.3336, 0.2500],[\"Venus\", 0.6300, 0.5833],[\"Earth\", 0.8708, 1],[\"Mars\", 1.3242, 1.9167],[\"Jupiter\", 4.5287, 11.8333],[\"Saturn\", 8.2997, 29.5000]]", ' \
    '"visualisation": "{\"google-chart\": {\"chartType\": \"Bar\", \"options\": {\"width\" : 600, \"height\" : 400}}}"' \
    '}' \
    https://app.matatika.com/api/api/workspaces/$WORKSPACE_ID/datasets

Windows

curl -i ^
    -H "Content-Type: application/hal+json" ^
    -H "Authorization: Bearer %ACCESS_TOKEN%" ^
    -d "{" ^
    """alias"": ""planet-orbits"", " ^
    """title"": ""Planet Orbits in Our Solar System (Mercury-Saturn)"", " ^
    """description"": ""Sun orbit data for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn"", " ^
    """questions"": ""How many Earth-years does it take for Jupiter to orbit the sun?"", " ^
    """rawData"": ""[[\""Planet\"", \""Orbit Distance (Light-hours)\"", \""Orbit Duration (Earth-years)\""],[\""Mercury\"", 0.3336, 0.2500],[\""Venus\"", 0.6300, 0.5833],[\""Earth\"", 0.8708, 1],[\""Mars\"", 1.3242, 1.9167],[\""Jupiter\"", 4.5287, 11.8333],[\""Saturn\"", 8.2997, 29.5000]]"", " ^
    """visualisation"": ""{\""google-chart\"": {\""chartType\"": \""Bar\"", \""options\"": {\""width\"" : 600, \""height\"" : 400}}}""" ^
    "}" ^
    https://app.matatika.com/api/workspaces/%WORKSPACE_ID%/datasets

Postman

Within the Matatika API collection, find the Publish a workspace dataset request under the Workspaces folder. Follow these steps to assign the variable {{workspace-id}} with the value of the workspace ID we obtained earlier, and press the Send button.

That’s all there is to it! If everything was set up correctly, you should have received a response with a status of 201 Created and a body containing information about the dataset you just published. Subsequent requests to this same URL using the same alias will yield a status of 200 OK. You should also see your dataset appear in the Matatika app within the context of the workspace you published to.