External enrichment API

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The external enrichment is beta functionality that is only available from the API.

The external enrichment feature allows you to annotate documents with a model of your choice. Through a webhook interface, you can use custom models or advanced foundation models, and other third-party models for enriching your documents in a collection. The documents are enriched by your external application and then merged to a collection in a Discovery project.

The external enrichment feature is not supported in the Analyze API.

For using the external enrichment feature, do the following things:

Set up the external application that can receive webhook notifications from Discovery and annotate documents.

To do so, you must register your external app as a webhook endpoint on a project by using the create enrichment method. For more information, see Create enrichment in the API reference.

After setting up the external enrichment for a project, it becomes available to all collections in the project. The external application also receives a webhook ping event, which notifies that an external enrichment is created.
Specify the collection in which you want to apply the external enrichment. You can use the API to apply the external enrichment to a collection. For more information, see Using the API to manage enrichments.

Alternatively, on the user interface, you can browse to the Manage collections page, and choose the collection where you want to apply the external enrichment. Then, open the Enrichments tab, and apply your external enrichment to a field in the collection.

When documents are processed or uploaded to this collection, Discovery creates a batch of documents with a unique batch_id. The external application also receives a webhook enrichment.batch.created event, which notifies that batches are ready to be pulled. Your external application can then pull batches from Discovery for external enrichment.

If the external application shuts down or restarts in between, you can get the following by using the List batches method:
- Notified batches that are not yet pulled by the external enrichment application.
- Batches that are pulled, but not yet pushed to Discovery by the external enrichment application.
For more information, see List batches in the API reference.
Specify the batch_id provided by Discovery in the pull batches method to pull the documents from Discovery for enrichment by your external application. For more information, see Pull batches in the API reference.

The pull batches method returns a binary file attachment from Discovery. For more information about the binary attachment, see Binary attachment from the pull batches method.
Specify the same batch_id in the push batches method after your external enrichment annotates the documents in the batch. For more information, see Push batches in the API reference.

The documents are pushed to Discovery as a binary attachment. For more information, see Binary attachment in the push batches method.
Verify that the documents are merged and indexed in the collection. The documents must contain the annotations that are applied by your external application.

Webhook security

To authenticate the webhook request, verify the JSON Web Token (JWT) that is sent with the request. The webhook microservice automatically generates a JWT and sends it in the Authorization header with each webhook call. It is your responsibility to add code to the external service that verifies the JWT.

The system can generate a JWT based on the sample secret that you specify, and in the Authorization header, you can pass this system-generated JWT to the external application. If you specify a value in the header, then the webhook microservice sends that value to the external application instead of the JWT.

For example, if you specify sample secret in the Secret field of the Webhooks object in the Create collection or update collection APIs, you might add sample code such as the following in Node.js:

const jwt = require('jsonwebtoken');
...
const token = request.headers.authentication; // grab the "Authentication" header
try {
  const decoded = jwt.verify(token, 'sample secret');
} catch(err) {
  // error thrown if token is invalid
}

Data model of the `ping` event

Following are the ping event parameters:

Ping event
Parameter	Description
`event`	The event name is `ping`.
`instance_id`	The Discovery instance ID.
`version`	The Discovery API version in the format `yyyy-mm-dd`.
`data`	An object with the event information: `url`, `events`, and `metadata`. `url`: The configured webhook endpoint (URL). `events`: An array of event string values. The events in this array are sent to the webhook URL. `metadata`: An object with information that is specific to the created webhook.
`created_at`	The date and time the event was created.

Data model of the `enrichment.batch.created` event

Following are the enrichment.batch.created event parameters:

Enrichment.batch.created
Parameter	Description
`event`	The event name is `enrichment.batch.created`.
`instance_id`	The UUID of the Discovery instance, which is also known as the tenant ID.
`version`	The webhook event version date in the `yyyy-mm-dd` format.
`data`	An object with the event specific information: `project_id`, `collection_id`, `enrichment_id`, and `batch_id`. `project_id`: The Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) of a project. `collection_id`: The Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) of a collection. `enrichment_id`: The Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) of an enrichment. `batch_id`: The Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) of a batch.
`created_at`	The date and time the event was created.

External enrichment limits

External enrichment limits
Plan	Maximum amount of webhook enrichment per collection	Maximum amount of webhook enrichment per tenant
Enterprise	1	100
Plus	1	10
Premium	1	100

Binary attachment from the pull batches method

The pull batches method returns a binary attachment file from Discovery.

The returned file is a compressed newline-delimited JSON (NDJSON) file. This file contains structured data that represents the document properties. For example, the following is a JSON value included in the NDJSON file:

{
    "document_id": "3bafc09abfaacd90d66f57181b50d041",
    "location_encoding": "utf-16",
    "language": "en",
    "artifact": "{\"text_positions\":[0,21],\"space_above\":93.07864284515381,\"space_below\":32.53530788421631,\"is_start_of_block\":true,\"image_id\":-1}{\"text_positions\":[22,63],\"space_above\":32.53530788421631,\"space_below\":13.935576438903809,\"is_start_of_block\":true,\"image_id\":-1}{\"parent_document_id\":\"3bafc09abfaacd90d66f57181b50d041\",\"source\":{\"ListId\":\"f0ac1d32-b9e5-41af-b9da-e1e37e965d99\",\"UniqueId\":\"357d7a48-4460-442c-be56-d8bdd40a8c36\",\"ServerRelativeUrl\":\"/Lists/list1/Attachments/1/addattachments.csv\",\"FileNameAsPath\":{\"DecodedUrl\":\"addattachments.csv\"},\"ListItemId\":\"284dcb51-8021-56d0-9213-7f4eb134e083\",\"FileName\":\"addattachments.csv\",\"ServerRelativePath\":{\"DecodedUrl\":\"/Lists/list1/Attachments/1/addattachments.csv\"},\"WebId\":\"ad5bf592-3b4e-4dd1-bd3e-abc0ef179b03\"},\"ingest_datetime\":\"2023-06-26T09:24:02.573Z\",\"application_id\":\"sharepoint\",\"application_sub_type\":\"ListItemAttachmentCollection\"}0.51vanilla ice creamcontamination_tamperingotherchange_of_propertiesI love the ads for the new milk chocolate. Could you tell me the name of the actor in the commercial?{\"metadata\":{\"numPages\":\"54\",\"title\":\"\",\"publicationdate\":\"2010-06-03\"},\"info\":{\"histogram\":{\"mean-char-height\":{},\"mean-char-width\":{},\"number-of-chars\":{}},\"styles\":[]}}1451692800000",
    "features": [
        {
            "type": "field",
            "location": {
                "begin": 0,
                "end": 128
            },
            "properties": {
                "field_name": "multi_nested",
                "field_index": 0,
                "field_type": "json"
            }
        },
        {
            "type": "field",
            "location": {
                "begin": 128,
                "end": 258
            },
            "properties": {
                "field_name": "multi_nested",
                "field_index": 1,
                "field_type": "json"
            }
        },
        {
            "type": "field",
            "location": {
                "begin": 258,
                "end": 889
            },
            "properties": {
                "field_name": "metadata",
                "field_index": 0,
                "field_type": "json"
            }
        },
        {
            "type": "field",
            "location": {
                "begin": 889,
                "end": 892
            },
            "properties": {
                "field_name": "claim_score",
                "field_index": 0,
                "field_type": "double"
            }
        },
        {
            "type": "field",
            "location": {
                "begin": 892,
                "end": 893
            },
            "properties": {
                "field_name": "claim_id",
                "field_index": 0,
                "field_type": "long"
            }
        },
        {
            "type": "field",
            "location": {
                "begin": 893,
                "end": 910
            },
            "properties": {
                "field_name": "claim_product",
                "field_index": 0,
                "field_type": "string"
            }
        },
        {
            "type": "field",
            "location": {
                "begin": 910,
                "end": 933
            },
            "properties": {
                "field_name": "label",
                "field_index": 0,
                "field_type": "string"
            }
        },
        {
            "type": "field",
            "location": {
                "begin": 933,
                "end": 938
            },
            "properties": {
                "field_name": "label",
                "field_index": 1,
                "field_type": "string"
            }
        },
        {
            "type": "field",
            "location": {
                "begin": 938,
                "end": 958
            },
            "properties": {
                "field_name": "label",
                "field_index": 2,
                "field_type": "string"
            }
        },
        {
            "type": "field",
            "location": {
                "begin": 958,
                "end": 1059
            },
            "properties": {
                "field_name": "body",
                "field_index": 0,
                "field_type": "string"
            }
        },
        {
            "type": "field",
            "location": {
                "begin": 1059,
                "end": 1230
            },
            "properties": {
                "field_name": "nested",
                "field_index": 0,
                "field_type": "json"
            }
        },
        {
            "type": "field",
            "location": {
                "begin": 1230,
                "end": 1243
            },
            "properties": {
                "field_name": "claim_date",
                "field_index": 0,
                "field_type": "date"
            }
        }
    ]
}

Following are the binary file properties:

Pull method binary file properties
Property	Type	Description
`document_id`	`string`	The identifier of the document.
`location_encoding`	`string`	The encoding type used to calculate the location of each feature. The supported types are: `utf-8`, `utf-16`, and `utf-32`. The external enrichment application must calculate the location of each feature based on the `location_encoding` of the corresponding document from Discovery. The location of features in a string representation of data varies depending on the encoding type of the programming language that is used for implementing the external enrichment. For example, C++ and Go use UTF-8, Java and JavaScript use UTF-16, and Python uses UTF-32.
`language`	`string`	The content language of the document.
`artifact`	`string`	The package of all the text values.
`features`	`array`	The list of features in a document. For more information, see Feature types.

Binary attachment in the push batches method

After external enrichment, the documents can be pushed to Discovery as a binary attachment in the push batches method.

The file must be a compressed NDJSON file with structured data that represents the document properties. For example, the following is an NDJSON file:

{
  "document_id": "3bafc09abfaacd90d66f57181b50d041",
  "features": [
    {
      "type": "annotation",
      "location": {
        "begin": 958,
        "end": 1000
      },
      "properties": {
        "type": "element_classes",
        "class_name": "expression",
        "confidence": 0.7905777096748352
      }
    },
    {
      "type": "annotation",
      "location": {
        "begin": 1001,
        "end": 1059
      },
      "properties": {
        "type": "element_classes",
        "class_name": "question",
        "confidence": 0.9507029056549072
      }
    },
    {
      "type": "annotation",
      "location": {
        "begin": 1035,
        "end": 1040
      },
      "properties": {
        "type": "entities",
        "entity_type": "JobTitle",
        "entity_text": "actor",
        "confidence": 0.70953685
      }
    },
    {
      "type": "annotation",
      "properties": {
        "type": "document_classes",
        "class_name": "amount.shortage",
        "confidence": 0.43297016620635986
      }
    },
    {
      "type": "notice",
      "properties": {
        "description": "something wrong happened",
      }
    },
    {
      "type": "notice",
      "properties": {
        "description": "something wrong happened again",
        "created": 1689076276402,
      }
    }
  ]
}

Following are the binary file properties:

Push method binary file properties
Property	Type	Description
`document_id`	`string`	The identifier of the document.
`features`	`array`	The list of features in a document. For more information, see Feature types.

Feature types

A feature type can be one of the following in a binary file:

Feature types
Feature	Type	Description
`field`	`string`	Represents a specific field value of the document.
`annotation`	`string`	Represents a specific annotation that can enrich the document.
`notice`	`string`	Represents any error that might occur in the external application during document enrichment. The information in `notice` is used to generate a message on the Discovery UI.

The following are the other properties in the binary file:

Other properties in the binary file
Feature	Type	Description
`location`	`object`	Location information to get the text value from the `artifact` by using the `begin` and `end` values. The `begin` value is a string value that represents the begin location in the artifact. The `end` value is a string value that represents an exclusive end location in the artifact. This property is null when a feature represents a document level information. For example, when `type=annotation` and `properties.type=document_classes`.
`properties`	`object`	The properties of a feature in the document. Supported properties vary depending on the `type` of feature. For more information, see Field type properties, Annotation type properties, and Notice type properties.

Field type properties

For field type, the following properties represent a certain field of the document that was converted by Discovery from an original file:

Field type properties
Property	Type	Description
`field_name`	`string`	The name of the field.
`field_index`	`int`	The index of a field value. This value is `0` for a single-valued field, but can be `> 0` when a field is multi-valued, such as, for an array of values.
`field_type`	`string` (enum: `long`, `double`, `date`, `json`)	The data type of the feature. This value determines how to parse the text representation of the feature in a programming language.

Annotation type properties

For annotation type, the following properties represent an annotation that can enrich a document:

Annotation type properties
Property	Type	Description
`type`	`string` (enum: `entities`, `element_classes`, `document_classes`)	The type of enriched annotation that a feature represents. The `entities` are merged to entities of enriched fields. The `element_classes` are merged to element classes of enriched fields. The `document_classes` are merged to classes of document level enrichment field.
`confidence`	`double`	The optional confidence score by the external model. It is between `0` to `1`, and is `0` by default.
`entity_type`	`string`	The type of entity that an external model assigns to a thing. Required for the `entities` type.
`entity_text`	`string`	The representative text of an entity that the external application extracts. Required for the `entities` type.
`class_name`	`string`	The name of a class that the external application assigns to a thing. Required for the `element_classes` and `document_classes` type.

Notice type properties

For notice type, the following properties represent errors and exceptions that occurred in the external application while enriching a document:

Notice type properties
Property	Type	Description
`description`	`string`	The message that describes an error that occurred during external enrichment.
`created`	`long`	Unix epoch time in milliseconds when an error occurred during external enrichment.