JavaScript SDK
const sequences = [
{
externalId: 'sequence_name',
columns: [
{
externalId: 'one',
valueType: SequenceValueType.LONG,
},
{
externalId: 'two',
},
{
externalId: 'three',
valueType: SequenceValueType.STRING,
}
]
}
];
const [sequence] = await client.sequences.create(sequences);from cognite.client.data_classes import SequenceWrite, SequenceColumnWrite
column_def = [
SequenceColumnWrite(value_type="String", external_id="user", description="some description"),
SequenceColumnWrite(value_type="Double", external_id="amount")
]
seq = client.sequences.create(SequenceWrite(external_id="my_sequence", columns=column_def))
seq2 = client.sequences.create(SequenceWrite(external_id="my_copied_sequence", columns=column_def))List<SequenceColumn> columns = List.of(SequenceColumn.newBuilder()
.setExternalId("10")
.setName("test_column_")
.setDescription("Description")
.setValueTypeValue(SequenceColumn.ValueType.STRING_VALUE)
.build());
List<SequenceMetadata> upsertSequencesList = List.of( SequenceMetadata.newBuilder()
.setExternalId("10")
.setName("test_sequence_")
.setDescription("Description")
.putMetadata("type", "sdk-data-generator")
.addAllColumns(columns)
.build());
client.sequences().upsert(upsertSequencesList);curl --request POST \
--url https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/sequences \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '
{
"items": [
{
"columns": [
{
"externalId": "DPS1",
"name": "depth",
"description": "Optional description",
"valueType": "DOUBLE",
"metadata": {
"extracted-by": "cognite"
}
}
],
"name": "Any relevant name",
"description": "Optional description",
"assetId": 1221123111,
"externalId": "my.known.id",
"metadata": {
"extracted-by": "cognite"
},
"dataSetId": 4503599627370496
}
]
}
'<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/sequences",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'items' => [
[
'columns' => [
[
'externalId' => 'DPS1',
'name' => 'depth',
'description' => 'Optional description',
'valueType' => 'DOUBLE',
'metadata' => [
'extracted-by' => 'cognite'
]
]
],
'name' => 'Any relevant name',
'description' => 'Optional description',
'assetId' => 1221123111,
'externalId' => 'my.known.id',
'metadata' => [
'extracted-by' => 'cognite'
],
'dataSetId' => 4503599627370496
]
]
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type: application/json"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/sequences"
payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"items\": [\n {\n \"columns\": [\n {\n \"externalId\": \"DPS1\",\n \"name\": \"depth\",\n \"description\": \"Optional description\",\n \"valueType\": \"DOUBLE\",\n \"metadata\": {\n \"extracted-by\": \"cognite\"\n }\n }\n ],\n \"name\": \"Any relevant name\",\n \"description\": \"Optional description\",\n \"assetId\": 1221123111,\n \"externalId\": \"my.known.id\",\n \"metadata\": {\n \"extracted-by\": \"cognite\"\n },\n \"dataSetId\": 4503599627370496\n }\n ]\n}")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/sequences")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"items\": [\n {\n \"columns\": [\n {\n \"externalId\": \"DPS1\",\n \"name\": \"depth\",\n \"description\": \"Optional description\",\n \"valueType\": \"DOUBLE\",\n \"metadata\": {\n \"extracted-by\": \"cognite\"\n }\n }\n ],\n \"name\": \"Any relevant name\",\n \"description\": \"Optional description\",\n \"assetId\": 1221123111,\n \"externalId\": \"my.known.id\",\n \"metadata\": {\n \"extracted-by\": \"cognite\"\n },\n \"dataSetId\": 4503599627370496\n }\n ]\n}"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"items": [
{
"id": 1,
"columns": [
{
"valueType": "DOUBLE",
"createdTime": 100000000000,
"lastUpdatedTime": 100000000000,
"name": "depth",
"externalId": "DPS1",
"description": "Optional description",
"metadata": {
"extracted-by": "cognite"
}
}
],
"createdTime": 100000000000,
"lastUpdatedTime": 100000000000,
"name": "Any relevant name",
"description": "Optional description",
"assetId": 1221123111,
"externalId": "my.known.id",
"metadata": {
"extracted-by": "cognite"
},
"dataSetId": 2718281828459
}
]
}{
"error": {
"code": 401,
"message": "Could not authenticate.",
"missing": [
{}
],
"duplicated": [
{}
]
}
}Create sequences
Required capabilities:
sequencesAcl:WRITE
Create one or more sequences.
POST
/
sequences
JavaScript SDK
const sequences = [
{
externalId: 'sequence_name',
columns: [
{
externalId: 'one',
valueType: SequenceValueType.LONG,
},
{
externalId: 'two',
},
{
externalId: 'three',
valueType: SequenceValueType.STRING,
}
]
}
];
const [sequence] = await client.sequences.create(sequences);from cognite.client.data_classes import SequenceWrite, SequenceColumnWrite
column_def = [
SequenceColumnWrite(value_type="String", external_id="user", description="some description"),
SequenceColumnWrite(value_type="Double", external_id="amount")
]
seq = client.sequences.create(SequenceWrite(external_id="my_sequence", columns=column_def))
seq2 = client.sequences.create(SequenceWrite(external_id="my_copied_sequence", columns=column_def))List<SequenceColumn> columns = List.of(SequenceColumn.newBuilder()
.setExternalId("10")
.setName("test_column_")
.setDescription("Description")
.setValueTypeValue(SequenceColumn.ValueType.STRING_VALUE)
.build());
List<SequenceMetadata> upsertSequencesList = List.of( SequenceMetadata.newBuilder()
.setExternalId("10")
.setName("test_sequence_")
.setDescription("Description")
.putMetadata("type", "sdk-data-generator")
.addAllColumns(columns)
.build());
client.sequences().upsert(upsertSequencesList);curl --request POST \
--url https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/sequences \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '
{
"items": [
{
"columns": [
{
"externalId": "DPS1",
"name": "depth",
"description": "Optional description",
"valueType": "DOUBLE",
"metadata": {
"extracted-by": "cognite"
}
}
],
"name": "Any relevant name",
"description": "Optional description",
"assetId": 1221123111,
"externalId": "my.known.id",
"metadata": {
"extracted-by": "cognite"
},
"dataSetId": 4503599627370496
}
]
}
'<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/sequences",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'items' => [
[
'columns' => [
[
'externalId' => 'DPS1',
'name' => 'depth',
'description' => 'Optional description',
'valueType' => 'DOUBLE',
'metadata' => [
'extracted-by' => 'cognite'
]
]
],
'name' => 'Any relevant name',
'description' => 'Optional description',
'assetId' => 1221123111,
'externalId' => 'my.known.id',
'metadata' => [
'extracted-by' => 'cognite'
],
'dataSetId' => 4503599627370496
]
]
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type: application/json"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/sequences"
payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"items\": [\n {\n \"columns\": [\n {\n \"externalId\": \"DPS1\",\n \"name\": \"depth\",\n \"description\": \"Optional description\",\n \"valueType\": \"DOUBLE\",\n \"metadata\": {\n \"extracted-by\": \"cognite\"\n }\n }\n ],\n \"name\": \"Any relevant name\",\n \"description\": \"Optional description\",\n \"assetId\": 1221123111,\n \"externalId\": \"my.known.id\",\n \"metadata\": {\n \"extracted-by\": \"cognite\"\n },\n \"dataSetId\": 4503599627370496\n }\n ]\n}")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/sequences")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"items\": [\n {\n \"columns\": [\n {\n \"externalId\": \"DPS1\",\n \"name\": \"depth\",\n \"description\": \"Optional description\",\n \"valueType\": \"DOUBLE\",\n \"metadata\": {\n \"extracted-by\": \"cognite\"\n }\n }\n ],\n \"name\": \"Any relevant name\",\n \"description\": \"Optional description\",\n \"assetId\": 1221123111,\n \"externalId\": \"my.known.id\",\n \"metadata\": {\n \"extracted-by\": \"cognite\"\n },\n \"dataSetId\": 4503599627370496\n }\n ]\n}"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"items": [
{
"id": 1,
"columns": [
{
"valueType": "DOUBLE",
"createdTime": 100000000000,
"lastUpdatedTime": 100000000000,
"name": "depth",
"externalId": "DPS1",
"description": "Optional description",
"metadata": {
"extracted-by": "cognite"
}
}
],
"createdTime": 100000000000,
"lastUpdatedTime": 100000000000,
"name": "Any relevant name",
"description": "Optional description",
"assetId": 1221123111,
"externalId": "my.known.id",
"metadata": {
"extracted-by": "cognite"
},
"dataSetId": 2718281828459
}
]
}{
"error": {
"code": 401,
"message": "Could not authenticate.",
"missing": [
{}
],
"duplicated": [
{}
]
}
}Authorizations
oidc-tokenoauth2-client-credentialsoauth2-open-industrial-dataoauth2-auth-code
Access token issued by the CDF project's configured identity provider. Access token must be an OpenID Connect token, and the project must be configured to accept OpenID Connect tokens. Use a header key of 'Authorization' with a value of 'Bearer $accesstoken'. The token can be obtained through any flow supported by the identity provider.
Body
application/json
Sequence to be stored.
Required array length:
1 - 1000 elementsShow child attributes
Show child attributes
Response
Response with the created sequence.
Show child attributes
Show child attributes
Last modified on July 10, 2026
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