A Data ability helps applications manage access to data stored by themselves and other applications. It also provides APIs for sharing data with other applications either on the same device or across devices.
Data ability providers can customize data access-related APIs such as data inserting, deleting, updating, and querying, as well as file opening, and share data with other applications through these open APIs.
## Available APIs
**Table 1** Data ability lifecycle APIs
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|denormalizeUri?(uri: string, callback: AsyncCallback\<string>): void|Converts a normalized URI generated by **normalizeUri** into a denormalized URI.|
|insert?(uri: string, valueBucket: rdb.ValuesBucket, callback: AsyncCallback\<number>): void|Inserts a data record into the database.|
|openFile?(uri: string, mode: string, callback: AsyncCallback\<number>): void|Opens a file.|
|getFileTypes?(uri: string, mimeTypeFilter: string, callback: AsyncCallback\<Array\<string>>): void|Obtains the MIME type of a file.|
|getFileTypes?(uri: string, mimeTypeFilter: string, callback: AsyncCallback<Array\<string>>): void|Obtains the MIME type of a file.|
|getType?(uri: string, callback: AsyncCallback\<string>): void|Obtains the MIME type matching the data specified by the URI.|
|executeBatch?(ops: Array\<DataAbilityOperation>, callback: AsyncCallback\<Array\<DataAbilityResult>>): void|Operates data in the database in batches.|