Behaviors endpoint
In Experience Data Model (XDM), behaviors define the nature of data that a schema describes. Each XDM class must reference a specific behavior, which all schemas that employ that class will inherit. For nearly all use cases in Experience Platform, there are two available behaviors:
- Record: Provides information about the attributes of a subject. A subject could be an organization or an individual.
- Time-series: Provides a snapshot of the system at the time an action was taken either directly or indirectly by a record subject.
The /behaviors endpoint in the Schema Registry API allows you to view available behaviors in the global container.
Getting started
The endpoint used in this guide is part of the . Before continuing, please review the getting started guide for links to related documentation, a guide to reading the sample API calls in this document, and important information regarding required headers that are needed to successfully make calls to any Experience Platform API.
Retrieve a list of behaviors list
You can retrieve a list of all available behaviors by making a GET request to the /behaviors endpoint.
API format
GET /global/behaviors
Request
curl -X GET \
https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/schemaregistry/global/behaviors \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
-H 'x-api-key: {API_KEY}' \
-H 'x-gw-ims-org-id: {ORG_ID}' \
-H 'x-sandbox-name: {SANDBOX_NAME}' \
-H 'Accept: application/vnd.adobe.xed-id+json'
Response
{
"results": [
{
"$id": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/data/record",
"meta:altId": "_xdm.data.record",
"version": "1.16.4",
"title": "Record Schema"
},
{
"$id": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/data/adhoc",
"meta:altId": "_xdm.data.adhoc",
"version": "1.16.4",
"title": "Ad Hoc Schema"
},
{
"$id": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/data/time-series",
"meta:altId": "_xdm.data.time-series",
"version": "1.16.4",
"title": "Time-series Schema"
}
],
"_page": {
"orderby": "updated",
"next": null,
"count": 3
},
"_links": {
"next": null
}
}
Look up a behavior lookup
You can look up a specific behavior by providing its ID in the path of a GET request to the /behaviors endpoint.
API format
GET /global/behaviors/{BEHAVIOR_ID}
{BEHAVIOR_ID}meta:altId or URL-encoded $id of the behavior you want to look up.Request
The following request retrieves the details of the record behavior by providing its meta:altId in the request path.
curl -X GET \
https://platform.adobe.io/data/foundation/schemaregistry/global/behaviors/_xdm.data.record \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer {ACCESS_TOKEN}' \
-H 'x-api-key: {API_KEY}' \
-H 'x-gw-ims-org-id: {ORG_ID}' \
-H 'x-sandbox-name: {SANDBOX_NAME}' \
-H 'Accept: application/vnd.adobe.xed+json;version=1'
Response
A successful response returns the details of the behavior, including its version, description, and the attributes the behavior provides to the classes that employ it.
{
"$id": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/data/record",
"meta:altId": "_xdm.data.record",
"meta:resourceType": "behaviors",
"version": "1.16.4",
"title": "Record Schema",
"type": "object",
"description": "Used to indicate the behavior of record data semantic when composed into data schemas.",
"definitions": {
"record": {
"properties": {
"_id": {
"title": "Identifier",
"type": "string",
"format": "uri-reference",
"description": "A unique identifier for the record.",
"meta:xdmType": "string",
"meta:xdmField": "@id"
}
}
}
},
"allOf": [
{
"$ref": "#/definitions/record",
"type": "object",
"meta:xdmType": "object"
},
{
"$ref": "https://ns.adobe.com/xdm/common/extensible#/definitions/@context",
"type": "object",
"meta:xdmType": "object"
}
],
"meta:extensible": true,
"meta:abstract": true,
"meta:xdmType": "object",
"meta:status": "stable",
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-06/schema#",
"meta:registryMetadata": {
"repo:createdDate": 1606266789446,
"repo:lastModifiedDate": 1606266789446,
"eTag": "2cc114a54949a9668fe2ad046ccece59192e1bfa28f14e5ac7c893acb7820ba2",
"meta:globalLibVersion": "1.16.4"
}
}
Next steps
This guide covered the use of the /behaviors endpoint in the Schema Registry API. To learn how to assign a behavior to a class using the API, see the classes endpoint guide.