Question Answering Projects - Import

Service:

Azure AI Services

API Version:

2021-10-01

Import project assets.

POST {Endpoint}/language/query-knowledgebases/projects/{projectName}/:import?api-version=2021-10-01

With optional parameters:

POST {Endpoint}/language/query-knowledgebases/projects/{projectName}/:import?api-version=2021-10-01&format={format}&assetKind={assetKind}

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
Endpoint	path	True	string	Supported Cognitive Services endpoint (e.g., https://.api.cognitiveservices.azure.com).
projectName	path	True	string	The name of the project to use.
api-version	query	True	string	Client API version.
assetKind	query		string	Kind of the asset of the project.
format	query		format	Knowledge base Import or Export format.

Request Header

Name	Required	Type	Description
Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key	True	string

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
assets	Assets	All assets for this project.
fileUri	string	Import data File URI.
metadata	CreateProjectOptions	Parameters needed to create the project.

Responses

Name	Type	Description
202 Accepted		A successful call results with an Operation-Location header used to check the status of the job. Headers Operation-Location: string
Other Status Codes	ErrorResponse	Error response.

Security

Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key

Type: apiKey
In: header

Examples

Successful query

Sample request

HTTP

POST {Endpoint}/language/query-knowledgebases/projects/proj1/:import?api-version=2021-10-01


{
  "assets": {
    "synonyms": [
      {
        "alterations": [
          "wa",
          "washington",
          "washington state"
        ]
      },
      {
        "alterations": [
          "U.S",
          "usa",
          "united states of america"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "qnas": [
      {
        "lastUpdatedDateTime": "2021-05-01T17:21:14Z",
        "id": 1,
        "answer": "ans1",
        "source": "source1",
        "questions": [
          "question 1.1",
          "question 1.2"
        ],
        "metadata": {
          "k1": "v1",
          "k2": "v2"
        },
        "dialog": {
          "isContextOnly": false,
          "prompts": [
            {
              "displayOrder": 1,
              "qnaId": 11,
              "displayText": "prompt 1.1"
            },
            {
              "displayOrder": 2,
              "qnaId": 21,
              "displayText": "prompt 1.2"
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      {
        "lastUpdatedDateTime": "2021-05-01T17:21:14Z",
        "id": 2,
        "answer": "ans2",
        "source": "source2",
        "questions": [
          "question 2.1",
          "question 2.2"
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

Sample response

Status code:

202

Operation-Location: job1

Definitions

Name	Description
Assets	All assets for this project.
CreateProjectOptions	Parameters needed to create the project.
Error	The error object.
ErrorCode	Human-readable error code.
ErrorResponse	Error response.
format	Knowledge base Import or Export format.
ImportJobOptions	Project assets the needs to be imported.
ImportQnaRecord	Import QnA Record.
InnerErrorCode	Human-readable error code.
InnerErrorModel	An object containing more specific information about the error. As per Microsoft One API guidelines - https://github.com/Microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/vNext/Guidelines.md#7102-error-condition-responses.
ProjectSettings	Configurable settings of the Project.
QnaDialog	Dialog associated with QnA Record.
QnaPrompt	Prompt for an answer.
QnaRecord	QnA record.
SuggestedQuestion	Question suggested by the Active Learning feature.
SuggestedQuestionsCluster	Active Learning suggested questions cluster details.
WordAlterations	Collection of word alterations.

Assets

All assets for this project.

Name	Type	Description
qnas	ImportQnaRecord[]	List of QnA records to import.
synonyms	WordAlterations[]	Collection of synonyms.

CreateProjectOptions

Parameters needed to create the project.

Name	Type	Description
description	string	Description of the project.
language	string	Language of the text records. This is BCP-47 representation of a language. For example, use "en" for English; "es" for Spanish etc. If not set, use "en" for English as default.
multilingualResource	boolean	Set to true to enable creating knowledgebases in different languages for the same resource.
settings	ProjectSettings	Configurable settings of the Project.

Error

The error object.

Name	Type	Description
code	ErrorCode	One of a server-defined set of error codes.
details	Error[]	An array of details about specific errors that led to this reported error.
innererror	InnerErrorModel	An object containing more specific information than the current object about the error.
message	string	A human-readable representation of the error.
target	string	The target of the error.

ErrorCode

Human-readable error code.

Name	Type	Description
AzureCognitiveSearchIndexLimitReached	string
AzureCognitiveSearchIndexNotFound	string
AzureCognitiveSearchNotFound	string
AzureCognitiveSearchThrottling	string
Forbidden	string
InternalServerError	string
InvalidArgument	string
InvalidRequest	string
NotFound	string
OperationNotFound	string
ProjectNotFound	string
ServiceUnavailable	string
TooManyRequests	string
Unauthorized	string

ErrorResponse

Error response.

Name	Type	Description
error	Error	The error object.

format

Knowledge base Import or Export format.

Name	Type	Description
excel	string	Export or Import knowledge base replica including all assets and metadata in Tsv format.
json	string	Export or Import QnA assets in JSON format.
tsv	string	Export or Import knowledge base replica including all assets and metadata in Excel format.

ImportJobOptions

Project assets the needs to be imported.

Name	Type	Description
assets	Assets	All assets for this project.
fileUri	string	Import data File URI.
metadata	CreateProjectOptions	Parameters needed to create the project.

ImportQnaRecord

Import QnA Record.

Name	Type	Description
activeLearningSuggestions	SuggestedQuestionsCluster[]	List of Active Learning suggestions for the QnA.
answer	string	Answer text.
dialog	QnaDialog	Context of a QnA.
id	integer	Unique ID for the QnA.
lastUpdatedDateTime	string	Date-time when the QnA was last updated.
metadata	object	Metadata associated with the answer, useful to categorize or filter question answers.
questions	string[]	List of questions associated with the answer.
source	string	Source from which QnA was indexed e.g. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/QnAMaker/FAQs .
sourceDisplayName	string	Friendly name of the Source.

InnerErrorCode

Human-readable error code.

Name	Type	Description
AzureCognitiveSearchNotFound	string
AzureCognitiveSearchThrottling	string
ExtractionFailure	string
InvalidParameterValue	string
InvalidRequest	string
KnowledgeBaseNotFound	string

InnerErrorModel

An object containing more specific information about the error. As per Microsoft One API guidelines - https://github.com/Microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/vNext/Guidelines.md#7102-error-condition-responses.

Name	Type	Description
code	InnerErrorCode	One of a server-defined set of error codes.
details	object	Error details.
innererror	InnerErrorModel	An object containing more specific information than the current object about the error.
message	string	Error message.
target	string	Error target.

ProjectSettings

Configurable settings of the Project.

Name	Type	Description
defaultAnswer	string	Default Answer response when no good match is found in the knowledge base.

QnaDialog

Dialog associated with QnA Record.

Name	Type	Description
isContextOnly	boolean	To mark if a prompt is relevant only with a previous question or not. If true, do not include this QnA as answer for queries without context; otherwise, ignores context and includes this QnA in answers.
prompts	QnaPrompt[]	List of prompts associated with the answer.

QnaPrompt

Prompt for an answer.

Name	Type	Description
displayOrder	integer	Index of the prompt. It is used for ordering of the prompts.
displayText	string	Text displayed to represent a follow up question prompt.
qna	QnaRecord	QnA record. Either QnAId or QnA record needs to be present in a Prompt.
qnaId	integer	ID of the QnA corresponding to the prompt.

QnaRecord

QnA record.

Name	Type	Description
activeLearningSuggestions	SuggestedQuestionsCluster[]	List of Active Learning suggestions for the QnA.
answer	string	Answer text.
dialog	QnaDialog	Context of a QnA.
id	integer	Unique ID for the QnA.
metadata	object	Metadata associated with the answer, useful to categorize or filter question answers.
questions	string[]	List of questions associated with the answer.
source	string	Source from which QnA was indexed e.g. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/QnAMaker/FAQs .

SuggestedQuestion

Question suggested by the Active Learning feature.

Name	Type	Description
autoSuggestedCount	integer	The number of times the question was suggested automatically by the Active Learning algorithm.
question	string	Question suggested by the Active Learning feature.
userSuggestedCount	integer	The number of times the question was suggested explicitly by the user.

SuggestedQuestionsCluster

Active Learning suggested questions cluster details.

Name	Type	Description
clusterHead	string	Question chosen as the head of suggested questions cluster by Active Learning clustering algorithm.
suggestedQuestions	SuggestedQuestion[]	List of all suggested questions for the QnA.

WordAlterations

Collection of word alterations.

Name	Type	Description
alterations	string[]	Collection of word alterations.