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Create anonymized branch
Creates a new branch with anonymized data using PostgreSQL Anonymizer for static masking. This allows developers to work with masked production data. Optionally, provide masking_rules to set initial masking rules for the branch and start_anonymization to automatically start anonymization after creation. This combines functionality of updating masking rules and starting anonymization into the branch creation request.
Note: This endpoint is currently in Beta.
post/projects/{project_id}/branch_anonymized
Request body
Example request
{
"annotation_value": {
"github-commit-ref": "github-branch-name"
},
"branch_create": {
"branch": {
"expires_at": "2025-06-09T18:02:16Z"
}
},
"masking_rules": [
{
"database_name": "neondb",
"schema_name": "public",
"table_name": "users",
"column_name": "email",
"masking_function": "anon.fake_email()"
}
]
}Response
Created a branch. An endpoint is only created if it was specified in the request.
Example response
{
"branch": {
"id": "br-wispy-meadow-118737",
"project_id": "spring-example-302709",
"parent_id": "br-aged-salad-637688",
"parent_lsn": "0/1DE2850",
"name": "dev2",
"protected": false,
"current_state": "ready",
"state_changed_at": "2022-11-30T20:09:48Z",
"creation_source": "console",
"created_at": "2022-11-30T19:09:48Z",
"updated_at": "2022-12-01T19:53:05Z",
"default": true,
"init_source": "parent-data",
"data_transfer_bytes": 72911987,
"written_data_bytes": 542998300,
"compute_time_seconds": 823880990,
"active_time_seconds": 922200,
"cpu_used_sec": 461100
},
"endpoints": [
{
"host": "ep-silent-smoke-806639.us-east-2.aws.neon.tech",
"id": "ep-silent-smoke-806639",
"name": "My cool compute",
"project_id": "spring-example-302709",
"branch_id": "br-wispy-meadow-118737",
"autoscaling_limit_min_cu": 1,
"autoscaling_limit_max_cu": 1,
"region_id": "aws-us-east-2",
"type": "read_write",
"current_state": "init",
"pending_state": "active",
"settings": {
"pg_settings": {}
},
"pooler_enabled": false,
"pooler_mode": "transaction",
"disabled": false,
"passwordless_access": true,
"creation_source": "console",
"created_at": "2022-12-03T15:37:07Z",
"updated_at": "2022-12-03T15:37:07Z",
"proxy_host": "us-east-2.aws.neon.tech",
"suspend_timeout_seconds": 0,
"provisioner": "k8s-neonvm"
}
],
"operations": [
{
"id": "d8ac46eb-a757-42b1-9907-f78322ee394e",
"project_id": "spring-example-302709",
"branch_id": "br-wispy-meadow-118737",
"endpoint_id": "ep-silent-smoke-806639",
"action": "start_compute",
"status": "finished",
"failures_count": 0,
"created_at": "2022-11-15T20:02:00Z",
"updated_at": "2022-11-15T20:02:02Z",
"total_duration_ms": 200
}
],
"roles": [
{
"branch_id": "br-wispy-meadow-118737",
"name": "casey",
"protected": false,
"created_at": "2022-11-23T17:42:25Z",
"updated_at": "2022-11-23T17:42:25Z"
}
],
"databases": [
{
"id": 834686,
"branch_id": "br-wispy-meadow-118737",
"name": "neondb",
"owner_name": "casey",
"created_at": "2022-11-30T18:25:15Z",
"updated_at": "2022-11-30T18:25:15Z"
}
]
}