Create signal

post

https://data.api.exabel.com/v1/signals

It is also possible to create a signal by calling UpdateSignal with allowMissing set to true.

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Query Params

createLibrarySignal

boolean

Set to true to also create a derived signal in the Library, referencing this new raw data signal. This will be created in the "Upload" folder.

Body Params

The signal to create.

A signal resource in the Data API. Signals are normally associated with a set of entity types, but may apply to any entities.

name

string

required

Unique resource name of the raw data signal, e.g. signals/signalIdentifier or signals/namespace.signalIdentifier. The namespace must be empty (being global) or a namespace accessible to the customer. The signal identifier must match the regex [a-zA-Z]\w{0,127}.

displayName

string

Used when showing the signal in the Exabel app. Required when creating a signal.

description

string

Used when showing the signal in the Exabel app.

downsamplingMethod

string

enum

Defaults to LAST

The default downsampling method to use when this signal is re-sampled into larger intervals. When two or more values in an interval needs to be aggregated into a single value, specifies how they are combined.

AGGREGATION_INVALID: Aggregation is unspecified and invalid. Aggregation must be set.
MEAN: Takes the arithmetic mean of the data values. Example: 2, 1, 3, 5, 4 -> 3.
FIRST: Selects the first value. Example: 2, 1, 3, 5, 4 -> 2.
LAST: Selects the last value. Example: 2, 1, 3, 5, 4 -> 4.
SUM: Sums the data values. Example: 2, 1, 3, 5, 4 -> 15.
MIN: Selects the minimum value. Example: 2, 1, 3, 5, 4 -> 1.
MAX: Selects the maximum value. Example: 2, 1, 3, 5, 4 -> 5.
MEDIAN: Selects the median value. Example: 2, 1, 3, 5, 1000 -> 3.

Responses

200A successful response.

defaultAn unexpected error response.