Insert Features Using SQL

Description

Inserts features in a table by performing a query on a table using an MI SQL Insert command string. See the MapInfo SQL Language Reference for detailed information on MapInfo SQL functions.

The body JSON representation of the geometries is in GeoJSON format. For more information on GeoJSON, see geojson.org/geojson-spec.html.

Note: You must have View permissions on the named table as well as Create/Modify/Delete permissions on the named table's associated dataset to perform insert, update, and delete operations on writable tables. See Users and Roles in the Administration section for more information.

Note: Insert is supported on PostGIS, Oracle, SQL Server, GeoPackage, and generic JDBC tables. It also supported on MapInfo native TAB and extended native TAB (NativeX) files on Windows operating systems only. Named tables with composite primary keys are not writable.

ACL Authorization Flow

To insert features in a named table by performing a query on a table using an MI SQL Insert command string, the user (or the role they belong to) needs both EXECUTE and CREATE permission on the Named table.

HTTP POST URL Format

The following format is used for HTTP POST requests:

HTTP POST:  /FeatureService/tables/features.rep?
POST Data: [insert=MI SQL query]
POST BODY: Content-Type:application/json {bound parameters}

Parameters

The {bound parameters} is a POST json body (Content-Type: application/json) for the MI SQL insert query containing one or multiple parameters to be included. Null values are supported; however, a type is still required.

Note: The json in the POST is optional; it is only required if the SQL query uses bound parameters.

For information on the parameter types listed below, see Request URL Data Types.


Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`rep`	String	yes	The representation to be returned. Supported representation is json.
insert=`MI SQL query`	String	yes	The insert query to perform, in MI SQL format.

Returns

Returns the number of successfully inserted features in a named table in the repository. For native and NativeX TAB files, a SuccessfulInserts response is returned instead that indicates the number of successful rows inserted.

Examples

Inserts features from MyTable using a bound parameter:

http://hostname:port/rest/Spatial/FeatureService/tables/features.json?
insert= INSERT INTO “/WORLDTABLE”(MI_PRINX, COUNTRY, CAPITAL, CONTINENT, OBJ) 
VALUES (257,'Bahrain', 'Manama', 'Asia', @geomParam) 
{
     "parameters": [{
           "name": "geomParam",
           "value": {
                 "type": "Point",
                 "coordinates": [-72, 42],
                 "crs": {
                       "type": "name",
                       "properties": {
                             "name": "epsg:4269"
                       }
                 }
           }
     }]
}