Drives

Learn about creating and managing virtual drives, mapped to resources on external storage services, via the DNAnexus API.

Drive API Method Specifications

API method: /drive/new

Specification

This API creates a new drive from the specified external storage service. Upon success, the requesting user will have permissions to perform tasks associated with the external storage.

Inputs

• name string name of the drive

• cloud string ("azure" or "aws"): Drive cloud provider

• credentials mapping credentials associated with the drive

  • key string credential field

  • value string credential value

Outputs

• id string id of the created drive

Errors

• Unauthorized

  • Must supply authentication token

• InvalidInput

  • The input is not a hash

  • name is not a nonempty string

  • cloud is not a string

  • credentials is not hash

  • credentials cannot access the given cloud environment

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API method: /drive-xxxx/disable

Specification

This API disables a drive. The requesting user must have permissions to use the drive.

Outputs

• id string id of the disabled drive

Errors

• Unauthorized

  • Must supply authentication token

• ResourceNotFound

  • The entity drive-xxxx could not be found

API method: /drive-xxxx/update

Specification

Updates information about a drive. The requesting user must have permissions to use the drive.

Inputs

• name string (optional): New user specified name of drive

• credentials mapping (optional): New credentials associated with the drive

  • key string credential field

  • value string credential value

Outputs

• id string ID of the updated drive

Errors

• Unauthorized

  • Must supply authentication token

• InvalidInput

  • The input is not a hash

  • name (if provided) is not a nonempty string

  • credentials (if provided) is not hash

  • credentials (if provided) cannot access given cloud environment

• ResourceNotFound

  • The entity drive-xxxx could not be found

API method: /drive-xxxx/describe

Specification

• Describes a drive.

Inputs

• fields mapping (optional): Include or exclude fields from the output.

  • key string Desired output field (see the "Outputs" section below for valid values)

  • value boolean Whether to include the field

Outputs

• id string ID of the drive

• name string name of the drive

• cloud string cloud provider of the drive

• created timestamp time at which this object was created

• modified timestamp time at which this object was last modified

Errors

• Unauthorized

  • Must supply authentication token

• InvalidInput

  • The input is not a hash

  • fields (if provided) is not hash

  • name (if provided) is not boolean

  • cloud (if provided) is not boolean

  • id (if provided) is not boolean

  • created (if provided) is not boolean

  • modified (if provided) is not boolean

• ResourceNotFound

  • The entity drive-xxxx could not be found