Guide: Having a custom response schema

For API requests, Cohesive supports semantic instructions for structuring the API response. You can specify a JSON response format in the request, and Cohesive will extract and return the data in the requested structure.

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Example: time-based metric import

Note: this schema is available as a template. This example simply illustrates how it could be custom-defined.

Example operational metrics

For the above metric data, we could pass in a request specifying the JSON response format as below:

This schema can be provided via API request or in Cohesive's workflow builder platform

Cohesive would then return all of the processed metrics in the requested response structure:

Data will be returned in the API response (or in the workflow builder platform) in the specified structure