Use the following REST APIs to manage Azure Data Lake Analytics catalogs.
Common parameters and headers
The following information is common to all tasks that you might do related to Data Lake Store:
- Replace {api-version} with 2016-11-01.
- Replace {account-name} with your Data Lake Analytics account name in the URI.
- Set the Content-Type header to application/json.
- Set the Authorization header to a JSON Web Token that you obtain from Azure Active Directory. For catalog operations, be sure to obtain a token for the resource URI / audience claim “https://datalake.azure.net/”, NOT “https://management.core.windows.net/” nor “https://management.azure.com/”. For more information, see Authenticating Azure Resource Manager requests.
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