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views
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from cognite.client.data_classes.data_modeling import ViewApply, MappedPropertyApply, ContainerId
views = [
    ViewApply(
        space="mySpace",
        external_id="myView",
        version="v1",
        properties={
            "someAlias": MappedPropertyApply(
                container=ContainerId("mySpace", "myContainer"),
                container_property_identifier="someProperty",
            ),
        }
   )
]
res = client.data_modeling.views.apply(views)

from cognite.client.data_classes.data_modeling import (
    ContainerId,
    DirectRelationReference,
    MappedPropertyApply,
    MultiEdgeConnectionApply,
    ViewApply,
    ViewId
)
acts_in_edge_type = DirectRelationReference(space="imdb", external_id="acts-in")
movie_view = ViewApply(
    space="imdb",
    external_id="Movie",
    version="1",
    name="Movie",
    properties={
        "title": MappedPropertyApply(
            container=ContainerId(space="imdb", external_id="Movie"),
            container_property_identifier="title",
        ),
        "actors": MultiEdgeConnectionApply(
            type=acts_in_edge_type,
            direction="inwards",
            source=ViewId("imdb", "Actor", "1"),
            name="actors",
        ),
    }
)
actor_view = ViewApply(
    space="imdb",
    external_id="Actor",
    version="1",
    name="Actor",
    properties={
        "name": MappedPropertyApply(
            container=ContainerId("imdb", "Actor"),
            name="name",
            container_property_identifier="name",
        ),
        "movies": MultiEdgeConnectionApply(
            type=acts_in_edge_type,
            direction="outwards",
            source=ViewId("imdb", "Movie", "1"),
            name="movies",
        ),
    }
)
res = client.data_modeling.views.apply([movie_view, actor_view])
curl --request POST \
  --url https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/models/views \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "items": [
    {
      "externalId": "<string>",
      "space": "<string>",
      "version": "<string>",
      "name": "<string>",
      "description": "<string>",
      "implements": [
        {
          "type": "view",
          "space": "<string>",
          "externalId": "<string>",
          "version": "<string>"
        }
      ],
      "filter": {
        "and": [
          {
            "in": {
              "property": [
                "tag"
              ],
              "values": [
                10011,
                10011
              ]
            }
          },
          {
            "range": {
              "property": [
                "weight"
              ],
              "gte": 0
            }
          }
        ]
      },
      "properties": {}
    }
  ]
}
'
const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({
    items: [
      {
        externalId: '<string>',
        space: '<string>',
        version: '<string>',
        name: '<string>',
        description: '<string>',
        implements: [{type: 'view', space: '<string>', externalId: '<string>', version: '<string>'}],
        filter: {
          and: [
            {in: {property: ['tag'], values: [10011, 10011]}},
            {range: {property: ['weight'], gte: 0}}
          ]
        },
        properties: {}
      }
    ]
  })
};

fetch('https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/models/views', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/models/views",
  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' => [
        [
                'externalId' => '<string>',
                'space' => '<string>',
                'version' => '<string>',
                'name' => '<string>',
                'description' => '<string>',
                'implements' => [
                                [
                                                                'type' => 'view',
                                                                'space' => '<string>',
                                                                'externalId' => '<string>',
                                                                'version' => '<string>'
                                ]
                ],
                'filter' => [
                                'and' => [
                                                                [
                                                                                                                                'in' => [
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                'property' => [
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                'tag'
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                ],
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                'values' => [
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                10011,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                10011
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                ]
                                                                                                                                ]
                                                                ],
                                                                [
                                                                                                                                'range' => [
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                'property' => [
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                'weight'
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                ],
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                'gte' => 0
                                                                                                                                ]
                                                                ]
                                ]
                ],
                'properties' => [
                                
                ]
        ]
    ]
  ]),
  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}/models/views"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"items\": [\n    {\n      \"externalId\": \"<string>\",\n      \"space\": \"<string>\",\n      \"version\": \"<string>\",\n      \"name\": \"<string>\",\n      \"description\": \"<string>\",\n      \"implements\": [\n        {\n          \"type\": \"view\",\n          \"space\": \"<string>\",\n          \"externalId\": \"<string>\",\n          \"version\": \"<string>\"\n        }\n      ],\n      \"filter\": {\n        \"and\": [\n          {\n            \"in\": {\n              \"property\": [\n                \"tag\"\n              ],\n              \"values\": [\n                10011,\n                10011\n              ]\n            }\n          },\n          {\n            \"range\": {\n              \"property\": [\n                \"weight\"\n              ],\n              \"gte\": 0\n            }\n          }\n        ]\n      },\n      \"properties\": {}\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))

}
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/models/views")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"items\": [\n    {\n      \"externalId\": \"<string>\",\n      \"space\": \"<string>\",\n      \"version\": \"<string>\",\n      \"name\": \"<string>\",\n      \"description\": \"<string>\",\n      \"implements\": [\n        {\n          \"type\": \"view\",\n          \"space\": \"<string>\",\n          \"externalId\": \"<string>\",\n          \"version\": \"<string>\"\n        }\n      ],\n      \"filter\": {\n        \"and\": [\n          {\n            \"in\": {\n              \"property\": [\n                \"tag\"\n              ],\n              \"values\": [\n                10011,\n                10011\n              ]\n            }\n          },\n          {\n            \"range\": {\n              \"property\": [\n                \"weight\"\n              ],\n              \"gte\": 0\n            }\n          }\n        ]\n      },\n      \"properties\": {}\n    }\n  ]\n}")
  .asString();
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://{cluster}.cognitedata.com/api/v1/projects/{project}/models/views")

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      \"externalId\": \"<string>\",\n      \"space\": \"<string>\",\n      \"version\": \"<string>\",\n      \"name\": \"<string>\",\n      \"description\": \"<string>\",\n      \"implements\": [\n        {\n          \"type\": \"view\",\n          \"space\": \"<string>\",\n          \"externalId\": \"<string>\",\n          \"version\": \"<string>\"\n        }\n      ],\n      \"filter\": {\n        \"and\": [\n          {\n            \"in\": {\n              \"property\": [\n                \"tag\"\n              ],\n              \"values\": [\n                10011,\n                10011\n              ]\n            }\n          },\n          {\n            \"range\": {\n              \"property\": [\n                \"weight\"\n              ],\n              \"gte\": 0\n            }\n          }\n        ]\n      },\n      \"properties\": {}\n    }\n  ]\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
{
  "items": [
    {
      "externalId": "<string>",
      "space": "<string>",
      "version": "<string>",
      "createdTime": 1730204346000,
      "lastUpdatedTime": 1730204346000,
      "writable": true,
      "queryable": true,
      "isGlobal": true,
      "properties": {},
      "mappedContainers": [
        {
          "type": "container",
          "space": "<string>",
          "externalId": "<string>"
        }
      ],
      "name": "<string>",
      "description": "<string>",
      "implements": [
        {
          "type": "view",
          "space": "<string>",
          "externalId": "<string>",
          "version": "<string>"
        }
      ],
      "filter": {
        "and": [
          {
            "in": {
              "property": [
                "tag"
              ],
              "values": [
                10011,
                10011
              ]
            }
          },
          {
            "range": {
              "property": [
                "weight"
              ],
              "gte": 0
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
{
  "error": {
    "code": 401,
    "message": "Could not authenticate.",
    "missing": [
      {}
    ],
    "duplicated": [
      {}
    ]
  }
}
{
  "error": {
    "code": 409,
    "message": "<string>",
    "isAutoRetryable": true
  }
}

Authorizations

Authorization
string
header
required

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

Views to add or update.

items
View · object[]
required

List of views to create/update

Required array length: 1 - 100 elements

Response

List of views

items
View · object[]
required

List of views

Last modified on July 10, 2026