Create Asynchronous Job

Create a job which will run asynchronously. The response returns a job ID, which can be used to query the status and result of the job. The status and the result of the job upon completion can be requested by Get Asynchronous Job Result.

Input Parameter Description

Name	Type	Description
endpoint	string	Indicates which endpoint to execute, e.g. '/alter/table'.
request_encoding	string	The encoding of the request payload for the job. The supported values are: binary json snappy
data	bytes	Binary-encoded payload for the job to be run asynchronously. The payload must contain the relevant input parameters for the endpoint indicated in input parameter endpoint. Please see the documentation for the appropriate endpoint to see what values must (or can) be specified. If this parameter is used, then input parameter request_encoding must be binary or snappy.
data_str	string	JSON-encoded payload for the job to be run asynchronously. The payload must contain the relevant input parameters for the endpoint indicated in input parameter endpoint. Please see the documentation for the appropriate endpoint to see what values must (or can) be specified. If this parameter is used, then input parameter request_encoding must be json.
options	map of string to strings	Optional parameters. The default value is an empty map ( {} ).

Output Parameter Description

Name	Type	Description
job_id	int	An identifier for the job created by this call.