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/insert/symbol

URL: https://<aws.fqdn>/<aws.cluster.name>/gpudb-0/insert/symbol

Adds a symbol or icon (i.e. an image) to represent data points when data is rendered visually. Users must provide the symbol identifier (string), a format (currently supported: 'svg' and 'svg_path'), the data for the symbol, and any additional optional parameter (e.g. color). To have a symbol used for rendering create a table with a string column named 'SYMBOLCODE' (along with 'x' or 'y' for example). Then when the table is rendered (via WMS) if the 'dosymbology' parameter is 'true' then the value of the 'SYMBOLCODE' column is used to pick the symbol displayed for each point.

Input Parameter Description

NameTypeDescription
symbol_idstringThe id of the symbol being added. This is the same id that should be in the 'SYMBOLCODE' column for objects using this symbol
symbol_formatstring

Specifies the symbol format. Must be either 'svg' or 'svg_path'. The supported values are:

  • svg
  • svg_path
symbol_databytesThe actual symbol data. If input parameter symbol_format is 'svg' then this should be the raw bytes representing an svg file. If input parameter symbol_format is svg path then this should be an svg path string, for example: 'M25.979,12.896,5.979,12.896,5.979,19.562,25.979,19.562z'
optionsmap of string to strings

Optional parameters. The default value is an empty map ( {} ).

Supported Parameters (keys)Parameter Description
colorIf input parameter symbol_format is 'svg' this is ignored. If input parameter symbol_format is 'svg_path' then this option specifies the color (in RRGGBB hex format) of the path. For example, to have the path rendered in red, used 'FF0000'. If 'color' is not provided then '00FF00' (i.e. green) is used by default.

Output Parameter Description

The GPUdb server embeds the endpoint response inside a standard response structure which contains status information and the actual response to the query. Here is a description of the various fields of the wrapper:

NameTypeDescription
statusString'OK' or 'ERROR'
messageStringEmpty if success or an error message
data_typeString'insert_symbol_response' or 'none' in case of an error
dataStringEmpty string
data_strJSON or String

This embedded JSON represents the result of the /insert/symbol endpoint:

NameTypeDescription
symbol_idstringValue of input parameter symbol_id.
infomap of string to stringsAdditional information.

Empty string in case of an error.