Purpose

Describes the category-definition for a data store. The category-definition contains a list of options that can be set on a data source based on this data store. A data store can have one or more categories of options.

Syntax 


	
{
	category-definition
		{
			"name": <category-name>,
			 "options": [{option-definition)
			              ]
		 }		
}

category-definition Object Descriptions

Parameter Valid Values Required
"name" The category name. The category can be anything the connectivity service defines, such as General, Advanced, Security, and OData. Yes
"options" An array of one or more option-definition objects. The option definition defines the option id, display name, data type, and other information to describe the option.

A option-definition object has the format:


{
   "id": <option-id>,
   "displayName": <display-name>,
   "documentation": "<help-text>",
   "required": (true | false),
   "type": <option-data-type>,
   "default": <default-value>,
   "choices": [{choice-definition}
   ]
}

See option-definition Object for more information.

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