# Importing an Athena catalog to AWS Glue
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The Migration API describes AWS Glue data types and operations having to do with migrating an Athena Data catalog to AWS Glue.

## Data types
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+ [CatalogImportStatus structure](#aws-glue-api-catalog-migration-CatalogImportStatus)

## CatalogImportStatus structure
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A structure containing migration status information.

**Fields**
+ `ImportCompleted` – Boolean.

  `True` if the migration has completed, or `False` otherwise.
+ `ImportTime` – Timestamp.

  The time that the migration was started.
+ `ImportedBy` – UTF-8 string, not less than 1 or more than 255 bytes long, matching the [Single-line string pattern](aws-glue-api-common.md#aws-glue-api-regex-oneLine).

  The name of the person who initiated the migration.

## Operations
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+ [ImportCatalogToGlue action (Python: import\$1catalog\$1to\$1glue)](#aws-glue-api-catalog-migration-ImportCatalogToGlue)
+ [GetCatalogImportStatus action (Python: get\$1catalog\$1import\$1status)](#aws-glue-api-catalog-migration-GetCatalogImportStatus)

## ImportCatalogToGlue action (Python: import\$1catalog\$1to\$1glue)
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Imports an existing Amazon Athena Data Catalog to AWS Glue.

**Request**
+ `CatalogId` – Catalog id string, not less than 1 or more than 255 bytes long, matching the [Single-line string pattern](aws-glue-api-common.md#aws-glue-api-regex-oneLine).

  The ID of the catalog to import. Currently, this should be the AWS account ID.

**Response**
+ *No Response parameters.*

**Errors**
+ `InternalServiceException`
+ `OperationTimeoutException`

## GetCatalogImportStatus action (Python: get\$1catalog\$1import\$1status)
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Retrieves the status of a migration operation.

**Request**
+ `CatalogId` – Catalog id string, not less than 1 or more than 255 bytes long, matching the [Single-line string pattern](aws-glue-api-common.md#aws-glue-api-regex-oneLine).

  The ID of the catalog to migrate. Currently, this should be the AWS account ID.

**Response**
+ `ImportStatus` – A [CatalogImportStatus](#aws-glue-api-catalog-migration-CatalogImportStatus) object.

  The status of the specified catalog migration.

**Errors**
+ `InternalServiceException`
+ `OperationTimeoutException`