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---
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title: How to Add a Custom Property to an Entity with API
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slug: /developers/how-to-add-custom-property-to-an-entity
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---
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# How to Add a Custom Property to an Entity with API
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This tutorial will create a custom property for a `table` entity.
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Let's assume in your organization you want to keep track of table size, so to achieve that you will be creating a custom property for table entities and then providing a value to that property for each table.
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### Step 1: Get the table entity type.
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All OpenMetadata APIs are secured so make sure to add the proper headers.
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```commandline
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curl -X GET http://localhost:8585/api/v1/metadata/types/name/table
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```
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After the API call, you will get a response like this.
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```json
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{
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"id": "7f0b032f-cdc8-4573-abb0-22165dcd8e07",
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"name": "table",
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}
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```
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Now take the `id` from above response `7f0b032f-cdc8-4573-abb0-22165dcd8e07`.
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### Step 2: Get the field types with `category=field`
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> From UI OpenMetadata only supports three field types
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>
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> - String
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> - Markdown
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> - Integer
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```commandline
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curl -X GET http://localhost:8585/api/v1/metadata/types?category=field
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```
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This API will return all the available field types, for this tutorial grab the id of the `string` field type. i.e `7531f881-c37c-4e39-9154-4bdf0802e05e`
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### Step 3: Make a PUT call to create the custom property for the table entity
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```commandline
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curl -X PUT http://localhost:8585/api/v1/metadata/types/7f0b032f-cdc8-4573-abb0-22165dcd8e07
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```
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**Payload**
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```json
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{
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"description": "Property for tracking the tableSize.",
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"name": "tableSize",
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"propertyType": {
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"id": "7531f881-c37c-4e39-9154-4bdf0802e05e",
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"type": "type"
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}
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}
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```
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### Step 4: Get the custom properties for the table entity
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```commandline
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curl -X GET http://localhost:8585/api/v1/metadata/types/name/table?fields=customProperties
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```
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**Response**
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```json
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{
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"id": "7f0b032f-cdc8-4573-abb0-22165dcd8e07",
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"name": "table",
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"customProperties": [
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{
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"name": "tableSize",
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"description": "Property for tracking the tableSize.",
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"propertyType": {
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"id": "7531f881-c37c-4e39-9154-4bdf0802e05e",
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"type": "type",
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"name": "string",
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"fullyQualifiedName": "string",
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"description": "\"A String type.\"",
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"displayName": "string",
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"href": "http://localhost:8585/api/v1/metadata/types/7531f881-c37c-4e39-9154-4bdf0802e05e"
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}
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}
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]
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}
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```
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So for all table entities, we have `tableSize` custom property available now, let’s add the value for it for the `raw_product_catalog` table.
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### Step 5: Add/Edit the value of the custom property for the entity.
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All the custom properties value for the entity will be stored in the `extension` attribute.
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Let’s assume you have `raw_product_catalog` table and its id is `208598fc-bd5f-458c-bf98-59224e1620c7` so our PATCH API request will be like this.
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```commandline
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curl -X PATCH http://localhost:8585/api/v1/tables/208598fc-bd5f-458c-bf98-59224e1620c7 -H 'Content-Type: application/json-patch+json'
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```
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For the first time if we want to add the value to the custom property then the payload should be like this.
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```json
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[
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{
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"op": "add",
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"path": "/extension",
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"value": {
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"tableSize": "50GB"
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}
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}
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]
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```
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When Changing the value of the custom property payload should be like this,
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```json
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[
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{
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"op": "replace",
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"path": "/extension/tableSize",
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"value": "60GB"
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}
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]
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```
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