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When playing around with the GoldenGate REST API, you might have encountered the OGG-08116<\/code> error. It happens when using the Create Connection<\/strong><\/em> REST API call, with the following endpoint given in the GoldenGate documentation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Create<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The OGG-08116<\/code> error is defined as such in the documentation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OGG-08116: Connections with names of the form 'domain.alias' are read-only\n\nCause: Connections with names of the form domain.alias are automatically created from credentials and are read-only.\n\nAction: Remove the period from the connection name<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
So what is the problem exactly ? When navigating through the GoldenGate deployment’s web UI, you create a connection in the DB Connections<\/strong><\/em> tab (see below). However, the Create connection<\/strong><\/em> API endpoint doesn’t serve the same purpose !<\/p>\n\n\n
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\"DB<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
The correct endpoint you should use to create a GoldenGate connection is actually named Create Alias<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n
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\"Create<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
And with this one, everything works fine ! I give below a working example of a Python script to create a connection\/alias with the GoldenGate REST API<\/strong>. If you want to learn more about building GoldenGate API calls with Python, I wrote a blog<\/a> on the topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
import requests\n\nalias = \"cdb01\"\ndomain = \"OracleGoldenGate\"\nurl = f\"http:\/\/vmogg:7810\/services\/v2\/credentials\/{domain}\/{alias}\"\nauth = (\"ogg_user\", \"ogg_password\")\ndata = {\n    \"userid\": \"c##oggadmin@vmora:1521\/CDB01\",\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \"password\": \"your_password\"\n}\n\nresult = requests.post(url, auth=auth, json=data)<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Running the requests command and checking in the web UI, we can see the newly created alias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
>>> result.ok\nTrue\n>>> result.json()\n{'$schema': 'api:standardResponse', 'links': [{'rel': 'canonical', 'href': 'https:\/\/vmogg:7810\/services\/v2\/credentials\/OracleGoldenGate\/cdb01', 'mediaType': 'application\/json'}, {'rel': 'self', 'href': 'https:\/\/vmogg:7810\/services\/v2\/credentials\/OracleGoldenGate\/cdb01', 'mediaType': 'application\/json'}], 'messages': [{'$schema': 'ogg:message', 'title': 'Credential store altered.', 'code': 'OGG-15114', 'severity': 'INFO', 'issued': '2026-01-28T20:41:56Z', 'type': 'https:\/\/docs.oracle.com\/en\/middleware\/goldengate\/core\/23.26\/error-messages\/'}]}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n
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\"Connection<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
Keep in mind that the Create Connection endpoint is read-only, and should never be used !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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