Gateways - Create Datasource

Service:

Power BI REST APIs

API Version:

v1.0

Creates a new data source on the specified on-premises gateway.

On premises data source credentials must be encrypted. The encryptedConnection parameter must be set to Encrypted and the credentials should be encrypted using the gateway public key.

See the Create Gateway DataSource PowerShell script for an example of using this API, this script uses the PowerShell script mentioned in the note below for encrypting the credentials.

Note

To encrypt credentials, see Configure credentials programmatically for Power BI and review the EncryptCredentials .NET Core, Java, Python and PowerShell examples.

Permissions

Supports only on-premises gateways and the user must have gateway admin permissions

Required Scope

Dataset.ReadWrite.All

Limitations

• Virtual network (VNet) and Cloud gateways aren't supported.
• OAuth2 as a credential type isn't supported.
  
  

POST https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/gateways/{gatewayId}/datasources

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
gatewayId	path	True	string (uuid)	The gateway ID. When using a gateway cluster, the gateway ID refers to the primary (first) gateway in the cluster. In such cases, gateway ID is similar to gateway cluster ID.

Request Body

Name	Required	Type	Description
connectionDetails	True	string	The connection details
credentialDetails	True	CredentialDetails	The credential details
dataSourceName	True	string	The data source name
dataSourceType	True	string	The data source type

Responses

Name	Type	Description
201 Created	GatewayDatasource	Created

Examples

Azure Analysis Services example

SQL example

Azure Analysis Services example

Sample request

POST https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/gateways/1f69e798-5852-4fdd-ab01-33bb14b6e934/datasources

Request Body

{
  "dataSourceType": "AnalysisServices",
  "connectionDetails": "{\"server\":\"MyServer\",\"database\":\"MyDatabase\"}",
  "datasourceName": "Sample Datasource",
  "credentialDetails": {
    "credentialType": "Windows",
    "credentials": "AB....EF==",
    "encryptedConnection": "Encrypted",
    "encryptionAlgorithm": "RSA-OAEP",
    "privacyLevel": "None"
  }
}

Sample response

Status code:

200

SQL example

Sample request

POST https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/gateways/1f69e798-5852-4fdd-ab01-33bb14b6e934/datasources

Request Body

{
  "dataSourceType": "SQL",
  "connectionDetails": "{\"server\":\"MyServer\",\"database\":\"MyDatabase\"}",
  "datasourceName": "Sample Datasource",
  "credentialDetails": {
    "credentialType": "Windows",
    "credentials": "AB....EF==",
    "encryptedConnection": "Encrypted",
    "encryptionAlgorithm": "RSA-OAEP",
    "privacyLevel": "None"
  }
}

Sample response

Status code:

200

Definitions

Name	Description
CredentialDetails	The credential details
credentialType	The type of data source credential
encryptedConnection	Whether to encrypt the data source connection. The API call will fail if you select encryption and Power BI is unable to establish an encrypted connection with the data source.
encryptionAlgorithm	The encryption algorithm. For a cloud data source, specify None. For an on-premises data source, specify RSA-OAEP and use the gateway public key to encrypt the credentials.
GatewayDatasource	A Power BI gateway data source
GatewayDatasourceCredentialDetails	The data source credential details
privacyLevel	The privacy level, which is relevant when combining data from multiple sources.
PublishDatasourceToGatewayRequest	A publish data source to gateway request

CredentialDetails

Object

The credential details

Name	Type	Description
credentialType	credentialType	The credential type
credentials	string	The credentials, which depend on the 'credentialType' value. For more information, see Update Datasource examples.
encryptedConnection	encryptedConnection	Whether to encrypt the data source connection. The API call will fail if you select encryption and Power BI is unable to establish an encrypted connection with the data source.
encryptionAlgorithm	encryptionAlgorithm	The encryption algorithm. For a cloud data source, specify None. For an on-premises data source, specify RSA-OAEP and use the gateway public key to encrypt the credentials.
privacyLevel	privacyLevel	The privacy level, which is relevant when combining data from multiple sources.
useCallerAADIdentity	boolean	Whether the Azure AD identity (OAuth 2.0 credentials) of the API caller (which must be the data source owner) will be used to configure data source credentials (the owner OAuth access token). Typically, you would either use this flag or useEndUserOAuth2Credentials.
useEndUserOAuth2Credentials	boolean	Whether the end-user Azure AD identity (OAuth 2.0 credentials) is used when connecting to the data source in DirectQuery mode. Use with data sources that support single sign-on (SSO). Typically, you would either use this flag or useCallerAADIdentity.

credentialType

Enumeration

The type of data source credential

Value	Description
Anonymous
Basic
Key
OAuth2
SAS
Windows

encryptedConnection

Enumeration

Whether to encrypt the data source connection. The API call will fail if you select encryption and Power BI is unable to establish an encrypted connection with the data source.

Value	Description
Encrypted
NotEncrypted

encryptionAlgorithm

Enumeration

The encryption algorithm. For a cloud data source, specify None. For an on-premises data source, specify RSA-OAEP and use the gateway public key to encrypt the credentials.

Value	Description
None
RSA-OAEP

GatewayDatasource

Object

A Power BI gateway data source

Name	Type	Description
connectionDetails	string	Connection details in JSON format
credentialDetails	GatewayDatasourceCredentialDetails	The connection details for the data source that needs update. The connection details are mandatory when the dataset has more than one data source.
credentialType	credentialType	The type of data source credential
datasourceName	string	The name of the data source
datasourceType	string	The type of data source. API name for the data source ActiveDirectory AdobeAnalytics AdoDotNet AnalysisServices AzureBlobs AzureDataLakeStorage AzureMarketplace AzureTables BizTalk CDPA CustomConnector CustomHttpApi DB2 Essbase EventHub Excel Exchange Extension Facebook File Folder GoogleAnalytics Hdfs HDInsight Informix MQ MySql OData ODBC OleDb Oracle PostgreSql PowerQueryMashup PubNub Salesforce SAPBW SAPBWMessageServer SapErp SAPHana SharePoint SharePointDocLib SharePointList Sql Sybase Teradata UIFlow Web
gatewayId	string (uuid)	The associated gateway ID. When using a gateway cluster, the gateway ID refers to the primary (first) gateway in the cluster and is similar to the gateway cluster ID.
id	string (uuid)	The unique ID for the data source

GatewayDatasourceCredentialDetails

Object

The data source credential details

Name	Type	Description
useEndUserOAuth2Credentials	boolean	Whether the end-user Azure AD identity (OAuth 2.0 credentials) is used when connecting to the data source in DirectQuery mode. Use with data sources that support single sign-on (SSO).

privacyLevel

Enumeration

The privacy level, which is relevant when combining data from multiple sources.

Value	Description
None
Organizational
Private
Public

PublishDatasourceToGatewayRequest

Object

A publish data source to gateway request

Name	Type	Description
connectionDetails	string	The connection details
credentialDetails	CredentialDetails	The credential details
dataSourceName	string	The data source name
dataSourceType	string	The data source type