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Elements of Cloud Data Access

The Cloud Data Access (CDA) APIs are organized into single API calls to perform a specific task, such as GET or WRITE an object. All of the HTTP requests needed to perform that task are performed by the Cloud Data Access API. The API calls depend on a configuration file for the requested cloud provider and an entry in the credentials file for the cloud credentials to be used.

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  • Read an object from Cloud storage
  • Write an object to Cloud storage
  • Delete an object from Cloud storage
  • List an object/objects in Cloud storage
  • Retrieve a list of known Cloud providers
  • Store Cloud Credentials
  • Retrieve Cloud Credentials
  • Delete Cloud Credentials
  • Retrieve a list of resources for Cloud Credentials
  • Translate a return code into message text
  • Start a CDA Session that will contain 0 or more related API calls.
  • Stop a CDA Session and perform cleanup of the session.
  • Perform a named operation from the provider file.
  • Validate a provider file and retrieve values from that provider file.
  • Query availability of CDA functions.
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