Export and import contracts

Native JSON exports provide a portable, inspectable schema description without carrying administrator credentials or operational state.

Export

GET /admin/v1/export

The document contains collection and field metadata. Password hashes, sessions, audit rows, job payloads and integration credentials are excluded.

Import dry run

POST /admin/v1/imports/dry-run
Content-Type: application/json

The dry run checks format, schema compatibility and duplicate collection names and reports writes: 0. Applying an import is available as a validating dry run; a full merge-and-conflict import remains a documented future step.

Choose the right mechanism

Use backup and restore for complete disaster recovery. Use export and import for portable schema exchange where secret and operational state must not travel.