createEntity - Create a new instance of a entity.

createEntity Creates a new entity instance. Required inputs are url, jsessionId and entityType.

createEntity(coreApi, entityType, attributeValues = NULL,
  locationId = NULL, projectIds = NULL, barcode = NULL,
  associations = NULL, useVerbose = FALSE)

Arguments

coreApi	coreApi object with valid jsessionid
entityType	entity type to get as character string
attributeValues	attributes as a list of key-values pairs
locationId	location ID for initial location as character string
projectIds	project comma separated list of project IDs as character string
barcode	User provided barcode as a character string
associations	association as a list of dataframes (see vignette for details)
useVerbose	Use verbose communication for debugging

Value

RETURN returns a list $entity contains entity information, $response contains the entire http response

Details

createEntity Creates a new instance of an entity.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
api<-CoreAPI("PATH TO JSON FILE")
login<- CoreAPI::authBasic(api)
item<-CoreAPI::createEntity(login$coreApi,"Entity_Type")
logOut(login$coreApi )
# }