/entity.bulkCreate

Creates multiple user profiles with a single API call.

This endpoint includes the following methods:

POST

POST

Authentication

This endpoint supports both Basic authentication (recommended) and janrain-signed authentication.

How to Create an Authentication String

Base URL

The base URL for this endpoint is your Identity Cloud Capture domain; for example:

https://educationcenter.us-dev.janraincapture.com

Your Capture domains (also known as Registration domains) can be found in the Console on the Manage Application page:

Examples

Example request

This command creates three new user accounts, specifying the following attribute values for each account:

familyName
givenName
email
statuses

Note that the statuses attribute is a plural attribute, and contains two child attributes: status and statusCreated.


curl -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: c2dueXZ1czZwYzRqbTdraHIybmVxNWdzODlnYnIyZXE6d3Q0YzN1bjl3a2tjZnZ5a25xeDQ0eW5jNDc2YWZzNjg=" \
  --data-urlencode type_name=user\
  --data-urlencode all_attributes='[{"familyName":"Jones","givenName":"Abe","email":"jonesa@example.com","statuses":[{"status":"active",statusCreated":"2015-12-15T07:36:25Z"}]},{"givenName":"Jackson","familyName":"Gordon","email":"gjack@test.com","statuses":[{"status":"inactive","statusCreated":"2015-10-12T04:00:00Z"}]},{"givenName":"Sally","familyName": "Smith","email":"ssmith@myorg.org"}]' \
  https://my-app.janraincapture.com/entity.bulkCreate

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Example Results


{
  "uuid_results": [
   "efd7fe4e-c0a2-4b80-876e-1d06df393579",
   "3314d744-09a9-4264-a17f-402d3e4824e7",
   "639dbbbc-6cac-4054-83be-92e08ced155f"
 ],
  "results": [
    11393,
    11395,
    11397
  ],
  "stat": "ok"
}

If you are adding a large number of accounts you could encounter errors with the preceding command; that's because of the way the attributes are formatted within the body parameter. If you run into problems with the bulkCreate endpoint, try formatting the attributes and attribute values as x-www-form-urlencoded parameters instead. For example:

curl -X POST \
  https://my-app.janraincapture.com/entity.bulkCreate \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' 
  -H 'Authorization: Basic dXQ0YmdycmE3dzI4MmpjZm15cGZxeDlwemhxaGpqMmI6dW5qemU5bndrZnV5NmpwdzgzOHFwYTdhZDNoZG55YTY=' \
  -d 'all_attributes=[{"givenName":"Jane","familyName":"Fielding","email":"jane.ortiz@fielding.com"},{"givenName":"Anderson","familyName":"Franks","email":"anderson.franks@example.com"},{"givenName":"Chiang","familyName":"Sun","email":"chiang.sun@example.com"}]&type_name=user'

Authorized Clients

owner
direct_access

Query Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
type_name	string	Yes	entityType of the entity.
all_attributes	string	Yes	Attribute names and values (formatted as a JSON object) for the entity. This argument is parsed as one entity.: if any part of the argument fails to parse, the entire request will be rejected.

How to Create an Authentication String

To create an authentication string, combine your API client ID, a colon (:), and your client secret into a single value. For example, if your client ID is abcdefg and your client secret is hijklmnop, that value would look like this:

abcdefg:hijklmnop

Next, take the string and base64 encode it. For example, on a Mac, you can base encode the string using this command:

echo -n "abcdefg:hijklmnop" | base64

If you’re running Microsoft Windows, you can encode the string by using a Windows PowerShell command similar to this:

[Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes("abcdefg:hijklmn"))

The resulting value (e.g., YWJjZGVmZzpoaWprbG1ub3A=) should be used in your authentication header.

If you are making API calls using Postman, select Basic Auth as your identification type, then use the client ID as the username and the client secret as the password.

Before you actually try your authentication string, make sure that your API client has the all the permissions (for example, the right to read user profile information) needed to complete the API call.

POST

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How to Create an Authentication String