StartSchemaExtension - Amazon Directory Service
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StartSchemaExtension

Applies a schema extension to a Microsoft AD directory.

Request Syntax

{ "CreateSnapshotBeforeSchemaExtension": boolean, "Description": "string", "DirectoryId": "string", "LdifContent": "string" }

Request Parameters

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

CreateSnapshotBeforeSchemaExtension

If true, creates a snapshot of the directory before applying the schema extension.

Type: Boolean

Required: Yes

Description

A description of the schema extension.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: ^([a-zA-Z0-9_])[\\a-zA-Z0-9_@#%*+=:?./!\s-]*$

Required: Yes

DirectoryId

The identifier of the directory for which the schema extension will be applied to.

Type: String

Pattern: ^d-[0-9a-f]{10}$

Required: Yes

LdifContent

The LDIF file represented as a string. To construct the LdifContent string, precede each line as it would be formatted in an ldif file with \n. See the example request below for more details. The file size can be no larger than 1MB.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 500000.

Required: Yes

Response Syntax

{ "SchemaExtensionId": "string" }

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

SchemaExtensionId

The identifier of the schema extension that will be applied.

Type: String

Pattern: ^e-[0-9a-f]{10}$

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

ClientException

A client exception has occurred.

HTTP Status Code: 400

DirectoryUnavailableException

The specified directory is unavailable or could not be found.

HTTP Status Code: 400

EntityDoesNotExistException

The specified entity could not be found.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidParameterException

One or more parameters are not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ServiceException

An exception has occurred in Amazon Directory Service.

HTTP Status Code: 500

SnapshotLimitExceededException

The maximum number of manual snapshots for the directory has been reached. You can use the GetSnapshotLimits operation to determine the snapshot limits for a directory.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

The following examples are formatted for legibility.

Example Request

This example illustrates one usage of StartSchemaExtension.

POST / HTTP/1.1 Host: ds.us-west-2.amazonaws.com Accept-Encoding: identity Content-Length: 320 X-Amz-Target: DirectoryService_20150416.StartSchemaExtension X-Amz-Date: 20161219T190703Z User-Agent: aws-cli/1.11.24 Python/2.7.9 Windows/7 botocore/1.4.81 Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1 Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=AKIAI7E3BYXS3example/20161219/us-west-2/ds/aws4_request, SignedHeaders=content-type;host;x-amz-date;x-amz-target, Signature=5c1200f494c1771770d7aa964e45ee36d80e724e0d9a8e62ab9822574c8cc915 { "CreateSnapshotBeforeSchemaExtension":true, "DirectoryId":"d-926example", "LdifContent":"dn: CN=User,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=sales,DC=example,DC=com\nchangetype: modify\nadd: mayContain\nmayContain: drink\n-\n\nDN:\nchangetype: modify\nreplace: schemaupdatenow\nschemaupdatenow: 1\n-", "Description":"Adds may contain attribute to user class. To construct the LdifContent string, precede each line as it would be formatted in an ldif file with \n. For example the LdifContent string above is formatted the following way in an Ldif file: dn: CN=User,CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=sales,DC=example,DC=com changetype: modify add: mayContain mayContain: drink - dn: changetype: modify replace: schemaupdatenow schemaupdatenow: 1 -" }

Example Response

This example illustrates one usage of StartSchemaExtension.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK x-amzn-RequestId: 54723d00-c61e-11e6-a96d-2b0686697d23 Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1 Content-Length: 36 Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 19:07:04 GMT { "SchemaExtensionId": "e-926731dc50" }

See Also

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