@lakshmi_alla wrote:
Hi All,
Can you please let me know a way to deploy a single PBIX file to Power BI online workspace with different source connections programmatically.
Currently we are doing this manually by opening the PBIX file and updating the connection string and deploying it. We need to do this procedure for 15 to 20 times as we need to deploy the same report with different source connecitons string.
Please let me know if there is any way to do this programmatically.
Thanks in advance !!
@lakshmi_alla
You can upload the pbix file by calling the REST API Create Import and updating connection string by Set All Connections(only wokrs in DirectQuery mode). See a demo to import.
using System;
using System.Net;
//Install-Package Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory -Version 2.21.301221612
using Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory;
using System.IO;
using Microsoft.Rest;
namespace ConsoleApplication39
{
class Program
{
//Step 1 - Replace {client id} with your client app ID.
//To learn how to get a client app ID, see Register a client app (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/dn877542.aspx#clientID)
private static string clientID = "{client id}";
//RedirectUri you used when you registered your app.
//For a client app, a redirect uri gives AAD more details on the specific application that it will authenticate.
private static string redirectUri = "https://login.live.com/oauth20_desktop.srf";
//Resource Uri for Power BI API
private static string resourceUri = "https://analysis.windows.net/powerbi/api";
//OAuth2 authority Uri
private static string authority = "https://login.windows.net/common/oauth2/authorize";
private static AuthenticationContext authContext = null;
private static string token = String.Empty;
//Uri for Power BI datasets
private static string datasetsUri = "https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg";
private static string datasetsBetaUri = "https://api.powerbi.com/beta/myorg";
//Example dataset name and group name
private static string groupId = "{group id}";
static void Main(string[] args)
{
//Import sample
string pbixPath = @"C:\test\test.pbix";
string datasetDisplayName = "mydataset2";
string importResponse = Import(string.Format("{0}/groups/{1}/imports?datasetDisplayName={2}", datasetsBetaUri, groupId, datasetDisplayName), pbixPath, AccessToken());
Console.WriteLine(importResponse);
}
public static string Import(string url, string fileName,string bearerToken)
{
string responseStatusCode = string.Empty;
string boundary = "---------------------------" + DateTime.Now.Ticks.ToString("x");
byte[] boundarybytes = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("\r\n--" + boundary + "\r\n");
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
request.ContentType = "multipart/form-data; boundary=" + boundary;
request.Method = "POST";
request.KeepAlive = true;
request.Headers.Add("Authorization", String.Format("Bearer {0}", bearerToken));
using (Stream rs = request.GetRequestStream())
{
rs.Write(boundarybytes, 0, boundarybytes.Length);
string headerTemplate = "Content-Disposition: form-data; filename=\"{0}\"\r\nContent-Type: application / octet - stream\r\n\r\n";
string header = string.Format(headerTemplate, fileName);
byte[] headerbytes = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(header);
rs.Write(headerbytes, 0, headerbytes.Length);
using (FileStream fileStream = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
{
byte[] buffer = new byte[4096];
int bytesRead = 0;
while ((bytesRead = fileStream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)) != 0)
{
rs.Write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
}
}
byte[] trailer = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("\r\n--" + boundary + "--\r\n");
rs.Write(trailer, 0, trailer.Length);
}
try
{
HttpWebResponse response = request.GetResponse() as System.Net.HttpWebResponse;
responseStatusCode = response.StatusCode.ToString();
}
catch (HttpOperationException ex)
{
//Bad Request
var content = ex.Response.Content;
Console.WriteLine(content);
}
return responseStatusCode;
}
static string AccessToken()
{
if (token == String.Empty)
{
//Get Azure access token
// Create an instance of TokenCache to cache the access token
TokenCache TC = new TokenCache();
// Create an instance of AuthenticationContext to acquire an Azure access token
authContext = new AuthenticationContext(authority, TC);
// Call AcquireToken to get an Azure token from Azure Active Directory token issuance endpoint
token = authContext.AcquireToken(resourceUri, clientID, new Uri(redirectUri), PromptBehavior.RefreshSession).AccessToken;
}
else
{
// Get the token in the cache
token = authContext.AcquireTokenSilent(resourceUri, clientID).AccessToken;
}
return token;
}
}
}
