Creating an HTTP API model

In Polytomic, go to Models → Add Model → Select your HTTP connection.
Name your API model. It is a good idea to name your model after the entities it imports from your API.

Select GET or POST for the method body.
Enter the path and any required headers and query parameters for the request.
You can click the Refresh button below to see the API response based on your configuration.

You need to instruct Polytomic how to extract the records from the JSON response. Insert a JSONPath expression into the Extract records field to specify your array of records within the API response. You can learn more https://docs.polytomic.com/docs/using-json-path-for-model-creation, which has some examples as well as links to further reading.
After entering the record-extraction JSON Path expression, click Refresh again and you'll see a list of model fields. Select those you want to surface in Polytomic.
Commonly, HTTP APIs provide only a subset of the total results at a time. Polytomic can paginate through the results automatically if you specify your API's pagination method. There are two options:

Next Page URL: enter the JSON Path expression for finding the next page URL in the response body.
Token: if the response has a token to be included in a header or query parameter, use JSONPath to extract it and specify the field name-value pair as either a header or query parameter.

(optional) Join this model to another of your models.
Click Save.

Datetime Expressions in Headers and Query Parameters

You may find it necessary to send dynamic datetime values in headers or parameters. An example of this is wanting to send "ten days ago, from the time the sync runs" as a parameter. To support this, Polytomic allows you to write simple datetime expressions in the model Headers and Parameters fields.

Here is an example expression that allows sending a startDate query parameter that will evaluate to a week ago:

{{ add_days(-7, now()) }}

Token Expressions

You may use an expression to modify the pagination token before it is sent. The pagination token is available in the expression as token().

For example, if you wanted to trim timezone information from the token, you could do so with an expression like so: {{ first_n_chars(token, 19) }}.

Expression Manual

Types
Date types will render by default as "YYYY-MM-DD".
Datetime types will render by default as "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ"
Date and Datetime can usually be used interchangeably. However, if you add hours/minutes/seconds to a Date, it will be cast to a Datetime.

Function	Parameters/Return	Notes
now()	Returns: Datetime Object representing the current date/time in UTC.	Returns current time in UTC.
date(year int, month int, day int)	Param `year` Param `month`: month expressed numerically. January is `1`. Param `day`: day of month. The first day is `1`. Returns: Date Object
date_time(year int, month int, day int, hour int, minute int, second int)	Year/Month/Day parameters as above. Param `hour`: hour of day, beginning at "0". Param `minute`: minute of hour, beginning at "0". Param `second`: second of minute, beginning at "0". Returns: Datetime Object	Datetimes are returned in UTC values only.
extract_years(datetime DateTime)	Param `datetime`: date to get the year of Returns: `int` representing year
extract_months(datetime Datetime)	Param `datetime`: date to get the month of Returns: `int` representing the month. (January is `1`).
extract_days(datetime Datetime)	Param `datetime`: date to get the days of Returns: `int` representing the day. The first day of the month is `1`.
extract_hours(datetime Datetime)	Param `datetime`: date to get the hours of Returns: `int` representing the hour of the day. The first hour of the day is `0`.	Time component will be provided in UTC.
extract_minutes(datetime Datetime)	Param `datetime`: date to get the minutes of Returns: `int` representing the minute of the hour.	Time component will be provided in UTC.
extract_seconds(datetime Datetime)	Param `datetime`: date to get the seconds of Returns: `int` representing the seconds of the minute.
add_years(years_to_add int, datetime Datetime)	Param `years_to_add`: how many years to add Param `datetime`: Datetime to add years to Returns: `Datetime` with specified years added to it	Negative values are permitted if you would like to specify a time in the past.
add_months(months_to_add int, datetime Datetime)	Param `months_to_add`: how many months to add Param `datetime`: Datetime to add months to Returns: `Datetime` with specified months added to it	Negative values are permitted if you would like to specify a time in the past.
add_days(days_to_add int, datetime Datetime)	Param `days_to_add`: how many days to add Param `datetime`: Datetime to add days to Returns: `Datetime` with specified days added to it	Negative values are permitted if you would like to specify a time in the past.
add_hours(hours_to_add int, datetime Datetime)	Param `hours_to_add`: how many hours to add Param `datetime`: Datetime to add hours to Returns: `Datetime` with specified hours added to it	Negative values are permitted if you would like to specify a time in the past.
add_minutes(minutes_to_add int, datetime Datetime)	Param `minutes_to_add`: how many minutes to add Param `datetime`: Datetime to add minutes to Returns: `Datetime` with specified minutes added to it	Negative values are permitted if you would like to specify a time in the past.
add_seconds(seconds_to_add int, datetime Datetime)	Param `seconds_to_add`: how many seconds to add Param `datetime`: Datetime to add seconds to Returns: `Datetime` with specified seconds added to it	Negative values are permitted if you would like to specify a time in the past.
datetime_to_ms(datetime Datetime)	Param `datetime`: Datetime to convert to milliseconds Returns: `int` converted datetime	You can perform basic math on this number. For example, you can send microseconds or nanoseconds by multiplying. e.g. `{{ datetime_to_ms(now()) * 1000 }}`
format_datetime(datetime Datetime, layout string)	Param `datetime`: Datetime to format Param `layout`: a pattern representing how to format a Datetime Returns: `string` date formatted according to `layout`	The layout pattern should be Go-compatible Time layout specification.
first_n_chars(input string, nChars int)	Param `input`: the string to take the first characters of Param `nChars`: how many characters to preserve Returns The first `nChars` of `input`.