Calling external api from within collibra workflow

Hello,

I’m looking for any information on how to call an external api from within a collibra workflow. Our use case is around data access, so when someone goes into collibra and requests access to a data set for example, we would want to pass that request to one of our internal tools that manages data access via a workflow. Any information on how to do this would be extremely helpful. Thanks!

jackfinegan

Posted 4 years ago · Edited 1 year ago·Last reply 4 years ago

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arthurburkhardt

·4 years ago · Edited

Collibra does not call external APIs, but external integrations can call the Collibra API.
Even though you could call an API from a groovy script, I would not recommend it except for public unauthenticated APIs.

There are 2 main patterns for the integration:

An external integration regularly polls for new tasks (every 5-30 seconds). The Collibra workflow creates a task, it gets picked up by the external integration, which then carries on with the process, and reports back to Collibra (completes its task).
Collibra makes an anonymous call to an external trigger API to let the external integration knows there is a task to be picked up, then same process as above.

External integrations can be built with systems such as AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, or iPaaS platform, etc.
This is also how the Spring boot applications have been built.