Create First Metadata

This section assumes:

• your lightblue deployment hostname is BASE_URL
• you have a copy of country.json on your local filesystem in the /tmp directory

Create via Command Line

You can create metadata with curl if the metadata is in a file on the filesystem. The following command creates version 1.0.0 of the country entity.

curl -H Content-Type:application/json -X PUT ${BASE_URL}/rest/metadata/country/1.0.0 -d @/tmp/country.json

Create via Metadata Management Application

There is also a management application provided with lightblue for maintaining metadata.

1. Go to http://BASE_URL/app/metadata in your browser
2. Select "Create Entity" from the "Action" drop down
3. Click the "Submit" button
4. Click the "View/edit JSON" link (to enable pasting raw JSON into the tool)
5. Paste the contents of /tmp/country.json into the text area
6. Click the "Save" button