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Below, you can review the basic request body for creating imported datasets for various types of sources:

• File (HDFS or S3 source)
  
  

  Info
  NOTE: You can create imported datasets only from file types that are natively supported by the platform. Using this endpoint, you cannot create imported datasets from file types, such as Microsoft Excel, that must be converted before import.

  
  

• Hive
• Relational
• Relation with Custom SQL Query

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{
  "path": "/trifacta/uploads/1/4aee9852-cf92-47a8-8c6a-9ff2adeb3b4a/POS-r02.txt",
  "type": "s3",
  "bucket": "myBucket",
  "name": "POS-r02b.txt",
  "description": "POS-r02 - copy"
}

Response Body - file:

Following example is for an HDFS file. For an S3 file, type=s3.

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