Assets

The Assets API is central to managing content in this system. An Asset in this API represents a direct link between the application and a storage container where content is stored. Ondemand Jobs and LiveEvent LiveOutputs both output encoded content into an Asset. And StreamingLocators reference an asset to describe and prepare it for playback.

When you create an asset via this API, you can optionally omit the container field. This is standard way to consume this API. The system will generate a container name and will create the container for you in the selected storage account. IF the container already exists in remote storage, your request will fail unless a DeletionPolicy is defined for the asset. This is to prevent accidental or unintentional deletion of stored content when the asset is deleted.

Deleting an asset record will, by default, retain the associated container in remote storage. This behavior can be changed by defining a DeletionPolicy.