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URL: http://<db.host>:<db.port>/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.

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Input Parameter Description

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symbol_id
string
The id of the symbol being added. This is the same id that should be in the ‘SYMBOLCODE’ column for objects using this symbol.
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symbol_format
string
Specifies the symbol format. Must be either ‘svg’ or ‘svg_path’.The supported values are:
  • svg
  • svg_path
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symbol_data
bytes
The 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’.
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options
map of string to strings
Optional parameters.The default value is an empty map ( {} ).

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Output Parameter Description

The Kinetica 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:
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status
String
‘OK’ or ‘ERROR’
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message
String
Empty if success or an error message
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data_type
String
‘insert_symbol_response’ or ‘none’ in case of an error
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data
String
Empty string
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data_str
JSON or String
This embedded JSON represents the result of the /insert/symbol endpoint:Empty string in case of an error.