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title: "REST" date: 2019-03-13T18:28:09-07:00 draft: false

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Interact with the API server (e.g. submit a SQL query, list some S3 files in a bucket, search for a table...) with via a REST API.

Users authenticate with the same credentials as they would do in the Browser login page.

Quickstart

The API can be called directly via REST. Some calls, JavaScript and Python wrappers are not fully documented yet.

Default content type is form data, e.g.:

-H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" -d 'username=demo&password=demo'

It is possible to submit data in JSON format:

-H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"username": "demo", "password": "demo"}'

Curl

Calling without credentials:

curl -X POST https://demo.gethue.com/api/query/create_notebook -H "Content-Type: application/json"

{"detail":"Authentication credentials were not provided."}

Authenticating and getting a JWT token:

curl -X POST https://demo.gethue.com/api/token/auth/ -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"username": "demo", "password": "demo"}'

{"refresh":"eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ0b2tlbl90eXBlIjoicmVmcmVzaCIsImV4cCI6MTYyMTcyNDYzMSwianRpIjoiOGM0NDRjYzRhN2VhNGMxZDliMGZhNmU1YzUyMjM1MjkiLCJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxfQ.t6t7_eYrNhpGN3-Jz5MDLXM8JtGP7V9Y9lacOTInqqQ","access":"eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ0b2tlbl90eXBlIjoiYWNjZXNzIiwiZXhwIjoxNjIxNjM4NTMxLCJqdGkiOiJhZjgwN2E0ZjBmZDI0ZWMxYWQ2NTUzZjEyMjIyYzU4YyIsInVzZXJfaWQiOjF9.dQ1P3hbzSytp9-o8bWlcOcwrdwRVy95M2Eolph92QMA"}

Re-using the token when making actual calls:

url -X POST https://demo.gethue.com/api/v1/create_notebook -H "Authorization: Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ0b2tlbl90eXBlIjoiYWNjZXNzIiwiZXhwIjoxNjIxNjM5NjMxLCJqdGkiOiI0NTY3NTA4MzM5YjY0MjFmYTMzZDJjMzViZWUyMDAyMCIsInVzZXJfaWQiOjF9.qrMNrr69eo38dOsV2aYp8k6WqBeyJZkbSuavxA_o_kM"

{"status": 0, "notebook": {"name": "My Notebook", "uuid": "1e23314f-b01e-4c18-872f-dc143475f063", "description": "", "type": "notebook", "isSaved": false, "isManaged": false, "skipHistorify": false, "sessions": [], "snippets": [], "directoryUuid": null}}

Python

In this code snippet, we will use the requests library:

pip install requests

And then:

import json
import requests

session = requests.Session()

data = {
  'username': 'demo',
  'password': 'demo',
}

response = session.post("https://demo.gethue.com/api/token/auth", data=data)
print('Auth: %s %s' % ('success' if response.status_code == 200 else 'error', response.status_code))

token = json.loads(response.content)['access']
print('Token: %s' % token)

response = requests.post(
  'https://demo.gethue.com/api/query/autocomplete',
  headers={
    'Authorization': 'Bearer %s' % token,
    "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
  },
  data={'snippet': json.dumps({"type":"mysql"})}
)
print(response.status_code)
print(response.text)

JavaScript

In the meantime, with Axios:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/axios@0.21.1/dist/axios.min.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">
  const API_URL = "https://demo.gethue.com";
  axios.defaults.baseURL = API_URL;

  axios.post('api/token/auth/', {username: "hue", password: "hue"}).then(function(data) {
    console.log(data['data']);

    // Util to check if cached token is still valid before asking to auth for a new one
    axios.post('api/token/verify/', {token: data['access']});

    axios.defaults.headers.common['Authorization'] = 'Bearer ' + data['access'];
  }).then(function() {
    axios.post('api/query/sqlite', {statement:"SELECT 1000, 1001"}).then(function(data) {
      console.log(data['data']);
    });

    axios.post('api/connectors/types/').then(function(data) {
      console.log(data['data']);
    });
  });
</script>

Authentication

The API authenticates via the authentication backends of the server (same as going via the login page). This is consistent and users are free to interact via their browsers or API.

Then a JWT token is returned and needs to be passed as a bearer in the headers for all the API calls.

Wrong credentials: there is currently no error on bad authentication but instead a 302 redirect to the login page, e.g.:

curl -X POST https://demo.gethue.com/notebook/execute/v1/create_notebook -H "Authorization: Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ0b2tlbl90eXBlIjoiYWNjZXNzIiwiZXhwIjoxNjIxNjM5NjMxLCJqdGkiOiI0NTY3NTA4MzM5YjY0MjFmYTMzZDJjMzViZWUyMDAyMCIsInVzZXJfaWQiOjF9.qrMNrr69eo38dOsV2aYp8k6WqBeyJZkbSuavxA_o_kM"

[21/May/2021 16:26:46 -0700] middleware   INFO     Redirecting to login page: /notebook/execute/v1/create_notebook
[21/May/2021 16:26:46 -0700] access       INFO     127.0.0.1 -anon- - "POST /notebook/execute/v1/create_notebook HTTP/1.1" - (mem: 172mb)-- login redirection
[21/May/2021 16:26:46 -0700] access       INFO     127.0.0.1 -anon- - "POST /notebook/execute/v1/create_notebook HTTP/1.1" returned in 4ms 302 0

Authenticate

Provide login credentials and get a JWT token:

curl -X POST https://demo.gethue.com/api/token/auth -d 'username=demo&password=demo'

{"refresh":"eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ0b2tlbl90eXBlIjoicmVmcmVzaCIsImV4cCI6MTYyMTcyNDYzMSwianRpIjoiOGM0NDRjYzRhN2VhNGMxZDliMGZhNmU1YzUyMjM1MjkiLCJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxfQ.t6t7_eYrNhpGN3-Jz5MDLXM8JtGP7V9Y9lacOTInqqQ","access":"eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ0b2tlbl90eXBlIjoiYWNjZXNzIiwiZXhwIjoxNjIxNjM4NTMxLCJqdGkiOiJhZjgwN2E0ZjBmZDI0ZWMxYWQ2NTUzZjEyMjIyYzU4YyIsInVzZXJfaWQiOjF9.dQ1P3hbzSytp9-o8bWlcOcwrdwRVy95M2Eolph92QMA"}

And keep the access tokent as the value of the bearer.

Check token

The validity (i.e. did it expire?) of an access token can be verified:

curl -X POST https://demo.gethue.com/api/token/verify/ -d 'token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ0b2tlbl90eXBlIjoiYWNjZXNzIiwiZXhwIjoxNjIxNjM4NTMxLCJqdGkiOiJhZjgwN2E0ZjBmZDI0ZWMxYWQ2NTUzZjEyMjIyYzU4YyIsInVzZXJfaWQiOjF9.dQ1P3hbzSytp9-o8bWlcOcwrdwRVy95M2Eolph92QMA'

Refresh token

Similarly, an access token validity can be extended via a refresh sending the refresh token obtained in the initial authentication.

curl -X POST https://demo.gethue.com/api/token/refresh/ -d 'refresh=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJ0b2tlbl90eXBlIjoicmVmcmVzaCIsImV4cCI6MTYyMTcyNDYzMSwianRpIjoiOGM0NDRjYzRhN2VhNGMxZDliMGZhNmU1YzUyMjM1MjkiLCJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxfQ.t6t7_eYrNhpGN3-Jz5MDLXM8JtGP7V9Y9lacOTInqqQ'

SQL Querying

Execute a Query

Now that we are authenticated, here is how to execute a SHOW TABLES SQL query via the hive connector. You could repeat the steps with any query you want, e.g. SELECT * FROM web_logs LIMIT 100.

Selecting the Database to query via the dialect argument in /api/editor/execute/<dialect>:

  • hive: select the first configured Hive databases.
  • 1: select the connector id 1
  • hive-1: select the interpreter id 1 and hints that it is a Hive dialect
  • If blank will pick the first interpreter

For a SHOW TABLES, first we send the query statement:

curl -X POST https://demo.gethue.com/api/editor/execute/hive --data 'statement=SHOW TABLES'

{"status": 0, "history_id": 17880, "handle": {"statement_id": 0, "session_type": "hive", "has_more_statements": false, "guid": "EUI32vrfTkSOBXET6Eaa+A==\n", "previous_statement_hash": "3070952e55d733fb5bef249277fb8674989e40b6f86c5cc8b39cc415", "log_context": null, "statements_count": 1, "end": {"column": 10, "row": 0}, "session_id": 63, "start": {"column": 0, "row": 0}, "secret": "RuiF0LEkRn+Yok/gjXWSqg==\n", "has_result_set": true, "session_guid": "c845bb7688dca140:859a5024fb284ba2", "statement": "SHOW TABLES", "operation_type": 0, "modified_row_count": null}, "history_uuid": "63ce87ba-ca0f-4653-8aeb-e9f5c1781b78"}

Then check the operation (its value is history_uuid from the execute response) status until its result is ready to fetch:

curl -X POST https://demo.gethue.com/api/editor/check_status --data 'operationId=63ce87ba-ca0f-4653-8aeb-e9f5c1781b78'

{"status": 0, "query_status": {"status": "available", "has_result_set": true}}

And now ask for the resultset of the statement:

curl -X POST https://demo.gethue.com/api/editor/fetch_result_data --data 'operationId=63ce87ba-ca0f-4653-8aeb-e9f5c1781b78'

{"status": 0, "result": {"has_more": true, "type": "table", "meta": [{"comment": "from deserializer", "type": "STRING_TYPE", "name": "tab_name"}], "data": [["adavi"], ["adavi1"], ["adavi2"], ["ambs_feed"], ["apx_adv_deduction_data_process_total"], ["avro_table"], ["avro_table1"], ["bb"], ["bharath_info1"], ["bucknew"], ["bucknew1"], ["chungu"], ["cricket3"], ["cricket4"], ["cricket5_view"], ["cricketer"], ["cricketer_view"], ["cricketer_view1"], ["demo1"], ["demo12345"], ["dummy"], ["embedded"], ["emp"], ["emp1_sept9"], ["emp_details"], ["emp_sept"], ["emp_tbl1"], ["emp_tbl2"], ["empdtls"], ["empdtls_ext"], ["empdtls_ext_v2"], ["employee"], ["employee1"], ["employee_ins"], ["empppp"], ["events"], ["final"], ["flight_data"], ["gopalbhar"], ["guruhive_internaltable"], ["hell"], ["info1"], ["lost_messages"], ["mnewmyak"], ["mortality"], ["mscda"], ["myak"], ["mysample"], ["mysample1"], ["mysample2"], ["network"], ["ods_t_exch_recv_rel_wfz_stat_szy"], ["olympicdata"], ["p_table"], ["partition_cricket"], ["partitioned_user"], ["s"], ["sample"], ["sample_07"], ["sample_08"], ["score"], ["stg_t_exch_recv_rel_wfz_stat_szy"], ["stocks"], ["students"], ["studentscores"], ["studentscores2"], ["t1"], ["table_name"], ["tablex"], ["tabley"], ["temp"], ["test1"], ["test2"], ["test21"], ["test_info"], ["topage"], ["txnrecords"], ["u_data"], ["udata"], ["user_session"], ["user_test"], ["v_empdtls"], ["v_empdtls_ext"], ["v_empdtls_ext_v2"], ["web_logs"]], "isEscaped": true}}

And if we wanted to get the execution log for this statement:

curl -X POST https://demo.gethue.com/notebook/api/get_logs --data 'operationId=63ce87ba-ca0f-4653-8aeb-e9f5c1781b78'

{"status": 0, "progress": 5, "jobs": [], "logs": "", "isFullLogs": false}

Same but in Python:

params = {
  'statement': 'SELECT 1, 2, 3',
}

response = requests.post(
  'https://demo.gethue.com/api/editor/execute/mysql',
  headers={
    'Authorization': 'Bearer %s' % token,
    "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
  },
  data=params
)
print(response.status_code)
print(response.text)

resp_content = json.loads(response.text)

data = {
  'operationId': resp_content['history_uuid'],
}

response = requests.post(
  'https://demo.gethue.com/api/editor/check_status',
  headers={
    'Authorization': 'Bearer %s' % token,
    "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
  },
  data=data
)
print(response.status_code)
print(response.text)


response = requests.post(
  'https://demo.gethue.com/api/editor/fetch_result_data',
  headers={
    'Authorization': 'Bearer %s' % token,
    "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
  },
  data=data
)
print(response.status_code)
print(response.text)

Listing Databases

$.post("/notebook/api/autocomplete/", {
  "snippet": ko.mapping.toJSON({
      type: "hive"
  })
}, function(data) {
  console.log(ko.mapping.toJSON(data));
});

Listing Tables

$.post("/notebook/api/autocomplete/<DB>", {
  "snippet": ko.mapping.toJSON({
      type: "hive"
  })
}, function(data) {
  console.log(ko.mapping.toJSON(data));
});

Table details and Columns

$.post("/notebook/api/autocomplete/<DB>/<TABLE>", {
  "snippet": ko.mapping.toJSON({
      type: "hive"
  })
}, function(data) {
  console.log(ko.mapping.toJSON(data));
});

Column details

$.post("/notebook/api/autocomplete/<DB>/<TABLE>/<COL1>", {
  "snippet": ko.mapping.toJSON({
      type: "hive"
  })
}, function(data) {
  console.log(ko.mapping.toJSON(data));
});

For nested columns:

$.post("/notebook/api/autocomplete/<DB>/<TABLE>/<COL1>/<COL2>", {
  "snippet": ko.mapping.toJSON({
      type: "hive"
  })
}, function(data) {
  console.log(ko.mapping.toJSON(data));
});

Listing Functions

Default functions:

$.post("/notebook/api/autocomplete/", {
  "snippet": ko.mapping.toJSON({
      type: "hive"
  }),
  "operation": "functions"
}, function(data) {
  console.log(ko.mapping.toJSON(data));
});

For a specific database:

$.post("/notebook/api/autocomplete/<DB>", {
  "snippet": ko.mapping.toJSON({
      type: "hive"
  }),
  "operation": "functions"
}, function(data) {
  console.log(ko.mapping.toJSON(data));
});

For a specific function/UDF details (e.g. trunc):

$.post("/notebook/api/autocomplete/<function_name>", {
  "snippet": ko.mapping.toJSON({
      type: "hive"
  }),
  "operation": "function"
}, function(data) {
  console.log(ko.mapping.toJSON(data));
});

File Browsing

List

Hue's File Browser offer uploads, downloads, operations (create, delete, chmod...) and listing of data in HDFS (hdfs:// or no prefix), S3 (s3a:// prefix), ADLS (adls:// or abfs:// prefixes) storages.

Here is how to list the content of a path, here a S3 bucket s3a://gethue-demo:

curl -X GET "https://demo.gethue.com/api/storage/view=s3a://gethue-demo"

{
  ...........
  "files": [
  {
  "humansize": "0\u00a0bytes",
  "url": "/filebrowser/view=s3a%3A%2F%2Fdemo-hue",
  "stats": {
  "size": 0,
  "aclBit": false,
  "group": "",
  "user": "",
  "mtime": null,
  "path": "s3a://demo-hue",
  "atime": null,
  "mode": 16895
  },
  "name": "demo-hue",
  "mtime": "",
  "rwx": "drwxrwxrwx",
  "path": "s3a://demo-hue",
  "is_sentry_managed": false,
  "type": "dir",
  "mode": "40777"
  },
  {
  "humansize": "0\u00a0bytes",
  "url": "/filebrowser/view=S3A%3A%2F%2F",
  "stats": {
  "size": 0,
  "aclBit": false,
  "group": "",
  "user": "",
  "mtime": null,
  "path": "S3A://",
  "atime": null,
  "mode": 16895
  },
  "name": ".",
  "mtime": "",
  "rwx": "drwxrwxrwx",
  "path": "S3A://",
  "is_sentry_managed": false,
  "type": "dir",
  "mode": "40777"
  }
  ],
  ...........
}

Some of the parameters:

  • pagesize=45
  • pagenum=1
  • filter=
  • sortby=name
  • descending=false

e.g. pagesize=45&pagenum=1&filter=&sortby=name&descending=false

Preview

How to get the some of the file content and its stats/metadata.

Example with a S3 file:

curl -X GET https://demo.gethue.com/api/storage/view=s3a://demo-hue/web_log_data/index_data.csv

{
  "show_download_button": true,
  "is_embeddable": false,
  "editable": false,
  "mtime": "October 31, 2016 03:34 PM",
  "rwx": "-rw-rw-rw-",
  "path": "s3a://demo-hue/web_log_data/index_data.csv",
  "stats": {
  "size": 6199593,
  "aclBit": false,
  ...............
  "contents": "code,protocol,request,app,user_agent_major,region_code,country_code,id,city,subapp,latitude,method,client_ip,  user_agent_family,bytes,referer,country_name,extension,url,os_major,longitude,device_family,record,user_agent,time,os_family,country_code3
    200,HTTP/1.1,GET /metastore/table/default/sample_07 HTTP/1.1,metastore,,00,SG,8836e6ce-9a21-449f-a372-9e57641389b3,Singapore,table,1.2931000000000097,GET,128.199.234.236,Other,1041,-,Singapore,,/metastore/table/default/sample_07,,103.85579999999999,Other,"demo.gethue.com:80 128.199.234.236 - - [04/May/2014:06:35:49 +0000] ""GET /metastore/table/default/sample_07 HTTP/1.1"" 200 1041 ""-"" ""Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; phpservermon/3.0.1; +http://www.phpservermonitor.org)""
    ",Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; phpservermon/3.0.1; +http://www.phpservermonitor.org),2014-05-04T06:35:49Z,Other,SGP
    200,HTTP/1.1,GET /metastore/table/default/sample_07 HTTP/1.1,metastore,,00,SG,6ddf6e38-7b83-423c-8873-39842dca2dbb,Singapore,table,1.2931000000000097,GET,128.199.234.236,Other,1041,-,Singapore,,/metastore/table/default/sample_07,,103.85579999999999,Other,"demo.gethue.com:80 128.199.234.236 - - [04/May/2014:06:35:50 +0000] ""GET /metastore/table/default/sample_07 HTTP/1.1"" 200 1041 ""-"" ""Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; phpservermon/3.0.1; +http://www.phpservermonitor.org)""
    ",Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; phpservermon/3.0.1; +http://www.phpservermonitor.org),2014-05-04T06:35:50Z,Other,SGP
  ...............
}

Some of the parameters:

  • offset=0
  • length=204800
  • compression=none
  • mode=text

e.g. ?offset=0&length=204800&compression=none&mode=text

Download

curl -X GET https://demo.gethue.com/api/storage/download=/user/hue/weblogs.csv

curl -X GET https://demo.gethue.com/api/storage/download=s3a://demo-hue/web_log_data/index_data.csv

Upload

Uploading the local README.md file into HDFS /user/hue:

curl -X POST https://demo.gethue.com/api/storage/upload/file?dest=/user/hue/ --form hdfs_file=@README.md

Data Importer

File import

First guessing the format of the file s3a://demo-hue/web_log_data/index_data.csv:

curl -X POST https://demo.gethue.com/indexer/api/indexer/guess_format  --data 'fileFormat={"inputFormat":"file","path":"s3a://demo-hue/web_log_data/index_data.csv"}'

{"status": 0, "fieldSeparator": ",", "hasHeader": true, "quoteChar": "\"", "recordSeparator": "\\n", "type": "csv"}

Then getting some data sample as well as the column types (column names will be picked from the header line if present):

curl -X POST https://demo.gethue.com/indexer/api/indexer/guess_field_types  --data 'fileFormat={"inputFormat":"file","path":"s3a://demo-hue/web_log_data/index_data.csv","format":{"type":"csv","fieldSeparator":",","recordSeparator":"\\n","quoteChar":"\"","hasHeader":true,"status":0}}'

{
  "sample": [["200", "HTTP/1.1", "GET /metastore/table/default/sample_07 HTTP/1.1", "metastore", "", "00", "SG", "8836e6ce-9a21-449f-a372-9e57641389b3", "Singapore", "table", "1.2931000000000097", "GET", "128.199.234.236", "Other", "1041", "-", "Singapore", "", "/metastore/table/default/sample_07", "", "103.85579999999999", "Other", "demo.gethue.com:80 128.199.234.236 - - [04/May/2014:06:35:49 +0000] \"GET /metastore/table/default/sample_07 HTTP/1.1\" 200 1041 \"-\" \"Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; phpservermon/3.0.1; +http://www.phpservermonitor.org)\"\n", "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; phpservermon/3.0.1; +http://www.phpservermonitor.org)", "2014-05-04T06:35:49Z", "Other", "SGP"],
  ....
  "columns": [{"operations": [], "comment": "", "nested": [], "name": "code", "level": 0, "keyType": "string", "required": false, "precision": 10, "keep": true, "isPartition": false, "length": 100, "partitionValue": "", "multiValued": false, "unique": false, "type": "long", "showProperties": false, "scale": 0}, {"operations": [], "comment": "", "nested": [], "name": "protocol", "level": 0, "keyType": "string", "required": false, "precision": 10, "keep": true, "isPartition": false, "length": 100, "partitionValue": "", "multiValued": false, "unique": false, "type": "string", "showProperties": false, "scale": 0},
  .....
}

Then we submit via https://demo.gethue.com/indexer/api/importer/submit and provide the source and destination parameters. We get back an operation id (i.e. some SQL Editor query history id).

If the show_command parameter is given, the API call will instead return the generated SQL queries that will import the data.

{"status": 0, "history_id": 17820, "handle": {"statement_id": 0, "session_type": "hive", "has_more_statements": true, "guid": "uu6K3SSWSY6mx/fbh0nm2w==\n", "previous_statement_hash": "4bee3a62b3c7142c60475021469483bff81ba09bd07b8e527179e617", "log_context": null, "statements_count": 4, "end": {"column": 53, "row": 0}, "session_id": 55, "start": {"column": 0, "row": 0}, "secret": "8mKu1bhdRtWXu82DXjDZdg==\n", "has_result_set": false, "session_guid": "fd4c667f3a5e4507:0335af7716db3d9e", "statement": "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `default`.`hue__tmp_index_data`", "operation_type": 0, "modified_row_count": null}, "history_uuid": "bf5804f5-6f12-47a8-8ba6-0ed7032ebe93"}

Connectors

List

Get the list of configured connectors:

curl -L -X POST demo.gethue.com/desktop/connectors/api/instances

Data Catalog

The metadata API is powering the external Catalog integrations.

Searching for entities

$.post("/metadata/api/catalog/search_entities_interactive/", {
    query_s: ko.mapping.toJSON("*sample"),
    sources: ko.mapping.toJSON(["sql", "hdfs", "s3"]),
    field_facets: ko.mapping.toJSON([]),
    limit: 10
}, function(data) {
    console.log(ko.mapping.toJSON(data));
});

Searching for entities with the dummy backend:

$.post("/metadata/api/catalog/search_entities_interactive/", {
    query_s: ko.mapping.toJSON("*sample"),
    interface: "dummy"
}, function(data) {
    console.log(ko.mapping.toJSON(data));
});

Finding an entity

e.g. in order to get its id:

$.get("/metadata/api/navigator/find_entity", {
    type: "table",
    database: "default",
    name: "sample_07",
    interface: "dummy"
}, function(data) {
    console.log(ko.mapping.toJSON(data));
});

Adding/updating a comment with the dummy backend:

$.post("/metadata/api/catalog/update_properties/", {
    id: "22",
    properties: ko.mapping.toJSON({"description":"Adding a description"}),
    interface: "dummy"
}, function(data) {
    console.log(ko.mapping.toJSON(data));
});

Adding a tag

$.post("/metadata/api/catalog/add_tags/", {
  id: "22",
  tags: ko.mapping.toJSON(["usage"]),
  interface: "dummy"
}, function(data) {
    console.log(ko.mapping.toJSON(data));
});

Deleting a property

$.post("/metadata/api/catalog/delete_metadata_properties/", {
   "id": "32",
   "keys": ko.mapping.toJSON(["project", "steward"])
}, function(data) {
   console.log(ko.mapping.toJSON(data));
});

Getting the model mapping

$.get("/metadata/api/catalog/models/properties/mappings/", function(data) {
  console.log(ko.mapping.toJSON(data));
});

Getting a namespace

$.post("/metadata/api/catalog/namespace/", {
  namespace: 'huecatalog'
}, function(data) {
  console.log(ko.mapping.toJSON(data));
});

Creating a namespace

$.post("/metadata/api/catalog/namespace/create/", {
  "namespace": "huecatalog",
  "description": "my desc"
}, function(data) {
  console.log(ko.mapping.toJSON(data));
});

Creating a namespace property

$.post("/metadata/api/catalog/namespace/property/create/", {
  "namespace": "huecatalog",
  "properties": ko.mapping.toJSON({
    "name" : "relatedEntities2",
    "displayName" : "Related objects",
    "description" : "My desc",
    "multiValued" : true,
    "maxLength" : 50,
    "pattern" : ".*",
    "enumValues" : null,
    "type" : "TEXT"
  })
}, function(data) {
  console.log(ko.mapping.toJSON(data));
});

Map a namespace property

To a class:

$.post("/metadata/api/catalog/namespace/property/map/", {
  "class": "hv_view",
  "properties": ko.mapping.toJSON([{
      namespace: "huecatalog",
      name: "relatedQueries"
  }])
}, function(data) {
  console.log(ko.mapping.toJSON(data));
});