Content Acquisition

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This section of a job request defines the source content provider, location, and its credentials. Basically, these settings refer to the input storage provider.

{
    "ContentAcquisition": {
        "Provider": "Ftps",
        "UriPath": "ftpes://server.ftp.com/source/dir/",
        "CredentialsName": "PLAINTEXT_USER",
        "CredentialsSecret": "ENCRYPTED_PASSWORD",
        "CredentialsProtection": "Encrypted"
    }
}

The exact meaning of the properties UriPath, CredentialsName and CredentialsSecret depends on the selected storage provider.

Property Value Description

Property	Value	Description
Provider	String	A storage provider to use. Refer to storage providers for more information.
UriPath	String	A storage location URI. This is a generic field. It is up to the storage to handle its URI format properly.
CredentialsName	String	A username for secured access.
CredentialsSecret	String	A password for secured access.
CredentialsProtection	`Encrypted` or `Unencrypted` (default)	You are encouraged to apply credentials protection to the `CredentialsSecret`. Encrypt `CredentialsSecret` as described and the value of `CredentialsProtection` to `Encrypted`.

Provider

String

A storage provider to use. Refer to storage providers for more information.

UriPath

String

A storage location URI. This is a generic field. It is up to the storage to handle its URI format properly.

CredentialsName

String

A username for secured access.

CredentialsSecret

String

A password for secured access.

CredentialsProtection

Encrypted or Unencrypted (default)

You are encouraged to apply credentials protection to the CredentialsSecret. Encrypt CredentialsSecret as described and the value of CredentialsProtection to Encrypted.

Revision History

The table below lists the document versions and any changes to them.

Version	Date	Description
1.0	October 20, 2020	Initial version.

Version

Date

Description

1.0

October 20, 2020

Initial version.