Chapter 3. Managing Service Registry content using the web console

Procedure

1. On the Artifacts tab, browse the list of artifacts stored in Service Registry, or enter a search string to find an artifact. You can select from the list to search by specific criteria such as name, group, labels, or global ID.

   Figure 3.1. Artifacts in Service Registry web console

   

2. Click an artifact to view the following details:

   • Overview: Displays the artifact version metadata such as name, optional group and ID, global ID, content ID, labels, and properties. Also displays rules for validity and compatibility that you can configure for artifact content.
   • Documentation (OpenAPI and AsyncAPI only): Displays automatically-generated REST API documentation.
   • Content: Displays a read-only view of the full artifact content. For JSON content, you can click JSON or YAML to display your preferred format.
3. If additional versions of this artifact have been added, you can select them from the Version list in page header.
4. To save the artifact contents to a local file, for example, my-protobuf-schema.proto, click Download at the end of the page.

Procedure

1. On the Artifacts tab, click Upload artifact, and specify the following details:

   • Group & ID: Use the default empty settings to automatically generate an artifact ID and add the artifact to the default artifact group. Alternatively, you can enter an optional artifact group name or ID.

   • Type: Use the default Auto-Detect setting to automatically detect the artifact type, or select the artifact type from the list, for example, Avro Schema or OpenAPI.

     Note

     Service Registry cannot automatically detect the Kafka Connect Schema artifact type. You must manually select this artifact type.

   • Artifact: Specify the artifact location using either of the following options:

     • From file: Click Browse, and select a file, or drag and drop a file. For example, my-openapi.json or my-schema.proto.
     • From URL: Enter a valid and accessible URL, and click Fetch. For example: https://petstore3.swagger.io/api/v3/openapi.json.

2. Click Upload and view the artifact details:

   • Overview: Displays the artifact version metadata such as name, artifact ID, global ID, content ID, labels, and properties. Also displays rules for validity and compatibility that you can configure for artifact content.
   • Documentation (OpenAPI and AsyncAPI only): Displays automatically-generated REST API documentation.

   • Content: Displays a read-only view of the full artifact content. For JSON content, you can click JSON or YAML to display your preferred format.

     The following example shows an example Protobuf schema artifact:

     Figure 3.2. Artifact details in Service Registry web console

     

3. On the Overview tab, click the Edit pencil icon to edit artifact metadata such as name or description.

   You can also enter an optional comma-separated list of labels for searching, or add key-value pairs of arbitrary properties associated with the artifact. To add properties, perform the following steps:

   1. Click Add property.
   2. Enter the key name and the value.
   3. Repeat the first two steps to add multiple properties.
   4. Click Save.
4. To save the artifact contents to a local file, for example, my-protobuf-schema.proto, click Download at the end of the page.
5. To add a new artifact version, click Upload new version in the page header, and drag and drop or click Browse to upload the file, for example, my-avro-schema.json or my-openapi.json.

6. To delete an artifact, click Delete in the page header.

   Warning

   Deleting an artifact deletes the artifact and all of its versions, and cannot be undone. Artifact versions are immutable and cannot be deleted individually.

Procedure

1. On the Artifacts tab, browse the list of artifacts in Service Registry, or enter a search string to find an artifact. You can select from the list to search by specific criteria such as artifact name, group, labels, or global ID.
2. Click an artifact to view its version details and content rules.

3. In Content rules, click Enable to configure an validity rule or compatibility rule for artifact content, and select the appropriate rule configuration from the list, for example, Full for the validity rule.

   Figure 3.3. Artifact content rules in Service Registry web console

   
4. To access global rules, click the Service Registry instance, and click the Global rules tab. Click Enable to configure a global validity rule or compatibility rule for all artifact content, and select the appropriate rule configuration from the list.
5. To disable an artifact rule or global rule, click the trash icon next to the rule.

Procedure

1. In the Service Registry web console, click the Settings tab.

2. Select the settings that you want to configure for this Service Registry instance:

   Table 3.1. Authentication settings

   Setting	Description
   HTTP basic authentication	Displayed only when authentication is already enabled. When selected, Service Registry users can authenticate using HTTP basic authentication, in addition to OAuth. Not selected by default.

   Table 3.2. Authorization settings

   Setting	Description
   Anonymous read access	Displayed only when authentication is already selected. When selected, Service Registry grants read-only access to requests from anonymous users without any credentials. This setting is useful if you want to use this instance to publish schemas or APIs externally. Not selected by default.
   Artifact owner-only authorization	Displayed only when authentication is already enabled. When selected, only the user who created an artifact can modify that artifact. Not selected by default.
   Artifact group owner-only authorization	Displayed only when authentication is already enabled and Artifact owner-only authorization is selected. When selected, only the user who created an artifact group has write access to that artifact group, for example, to add or remove artifacts in that group. Not selected by default.
   Authenticated read access	Displayed only when authentication is already enabled. When selected, Service Registry grants at least read-only access to requests from any authenticated user regardless of their user role. Not selected by default.

   Table 3.3. Compatibility settings

   Setting	Description
   Legacy ID mode (compatibility API)	When selected, the Confluent Schema Registry compatibility API uses globalId instead of contentId as an artifact identifier. This setting is useful when migrating from legacy Service Registry instances based on the v1 Core Registry API. Not selected by default.

   Table 3.4. Web console settings

   Setting	Description
   Download link expiry	The number of seconds that a generated link to a .zip download file is active before expiring for security reasons, for example, when exporting artifact data from the instance. Defaults to 30 seconds.
   UI read-only mode	When selected, the Service Registry web console is set to read-only, preventing create, read, update, or delete operations. Changes made using the Core Registry API are not affected by this setting. Not selected by default.

Procedure

1. On the Artifacts tab, browse the list of artifacts stored in Service Registry, or enter a search string to find the artifact. You can select from the list to search by criteria such as name, group, labels, or global ID.
2. Click the artifact that you want to reassign.
3. In the Version metadata section, click the pencil icon next to the Owner field.
4. In the New owner field, select or enter an account name.
5. Click Change owner.

Procedure

1. In the web console for the source Service Registry instance, view the Artifacts tab.
2. Click the options icon (three vertical dots) next to Upload artifact, and select Download all artifacts (.zip file) to export the registry data for this instance to a .zip download file.
3. In the the web console for the target Service Registry instance, view the Artifacts tab.
4. Click the options icon next to Upload artifact, and select Upload multiple artifacts.
5. Drag and drop or browse to the .zip download file that you exported earlier.
6. Click Upload and wait for the data to be imported.