Updated on 2024-05-22 GMT+08:00

Creating a Table (Discarded)

Function

This API is used to create a table. This API is a synchronous API.

This API has been discarded and is not recommended.

URI

  • URI format

    POST /v1.0/{project_id}/databases/{database_name}/tables

  • Parameter description
    Table 1 URI parameters

    Parameter

    Mandatory

    Type

    Description

    project_id

    Yes

    String

    Project ID, which is used for resource isolation. For details about how to obtain its value, see Obtaining a Project ID.

    database_name

    Yes

    String

    Name of the database where the new table resides.

Request

Table 2 Request parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

table_name

Yes

String

Name of the created table.

  • The table name can contain only digits, letters, and underscores (_), but cannot contain only digits or start with an underscore (_).
  • The table name is case insensitive and cannot be left unspecified.
  • The table name can contain the dollar sign ($). Example: $test
  • The length of the database name cannot exceed 128 characters.

data_location

Yes

String

Location where data is stored. The options are as follows:

  • OBS: OBS table
  • DLI: DLI table
  • VIEW: VIEW table

description

No

String

Information about the new table.

columns

Yes

Array of Objects

Columns of the new table. For details about column parameters, see Table 4. This parameter is optional when data_location is VIEW.

select_statement

No

String

Query statement required for creating a view. The database to which the table belongs needs to be specified in the query statement, in the format of database.table. This parameter is mandatory when data_location is VIEW.

data_type

No

String

Type of the data to be added to the OBS table. The options are as follows: Parquet, ORC, CSV, JSON, and Avro.

NOTE:

This parameter is mandatory for an OBS table.

data_path

No

String

Storage path of data in the new OBS table, which must be a path on OBS and must begin with obs.

NOTE:

This parameter is mandatory for an OBS table.

Do not set this parameter to the OBS root directory. Otherwise, all data in the root directory will be cleared when you clear table data.

with_column_header

No

Boolean

Whether the table header is included in the OBS table data. Only data in CSV files has this attribute. This parameter is mandatory when data_location is OBS.

delimiter

No

String

User-defined data delimiter. Only data in CSV files has this attribute. This parameter is mandatory when data_location is OBS.

quote_char

No

String

User-defined reference character. Double quotation marks ("\") are used by default. Only data in CSV files has this attribute. This parameter is mandatory when data_location is OBS.

escape_char

No

String

User-defined escape character. Backslashes (\\) are used by default. Only data in CSV files has this attribute. This parameter is mandatory when data_location is OBS.

date_format

No

String

User-defined date type. yyyy-MM-dd is used by default. For details about the characters involved in the date format, see Table 3. Only data in CSV and JSON files has this attribute. This parameter is mandatory when data_location is OBS.

timestamp_format

No

String

User-defined timestamp type. yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss is used by default. For definitions about characters in the timestamp format, see Table 3. Only data in CSV and JSON files has this attribute. This parameter is mandatory when data_location is OBS.

tags

No

Array of objects

Database tag. For details about this object, see tags parameters.

Table 3 tags parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

key

Yes

String

Tag key

NOTE:

A tag key can contain a maximum of 128 characters. Only letters, digits, spaces, and special characters (_.:=+-@) are allowed, but the value cannot start or end with a space or start with _sys_.

value

Yes

String

Tag value

NOTE:

A tag value can contain a maximum of 255 characters. Only letters, digits, spaces, and special characters (_.:=+-@) are allowed. The value cannot start or end with a space.

Table 4 columns parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

column_name

Yes

String

Name of a column.

type

Yes

String

Data type of a column.

description

No

String

Description of a column.

is_partition_column

No

Boolean

Whether the column is a partition column. The value true indicates a partition column, and the value false indicates a non-partition column. The default value is false.

NOTE:

When creating a partition table, ensure that at least one column in the table is a non-partition column. For details, see "Request example".

Response

Table 5 Response parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

is_success

No

Boolean

Whether the request is successfully executed. Value true indicates that the request is successfully executed.

message

No

String

System prompt. If execution succeeds, the parameter setting may be left blank.

Example Request

  • Create a table whose data_location is OBS and data format of CSV.
    {
      "table_name": "tb1",
      "data_location": "OBS",
      "description": "",
      "data_type": "csv",
      "data_path": "obs://obs/path1",
      "columns": [
      {
         "column_name": "column1",
         "type": "string",
         "description": "",
         "is_partition_column": true
      },
      {
         "column_name": "column2",
         "type": "string",
         "description": "",
         "is_partition_column": false
      }
      ],
      "with_column_header": true,
      "delimiter": ",",
      "quote_char": "\"",
      "escape_char": "\\",
      "date_format": "yyyy-MM-dd",
      "timestamp_format": "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"
    }

    The values of date_format and timestamp_format must be the same as the time format in the imported CSV file.

  • Create a table whose data_location is DLI.
    {
      "table_name": "tb2", 
      "data_location": "DLI", 
      "columns": [
        {
          "column_name": "column1", 
          "type": "string", 
          "description": "", 
          "is_partition_column": true
        }, 
        {
          "column_name": "column2", 
          "type": "string", 
          "description": "", 
          "is_partition_column": false
        }
      ], 
      "tags": [
        {
          "key": "quarterly", 
          "value": "Q3"
        }, 
        {
          "key": "author", 
          "value": "user"
        }
      ]
    }
  • Create a table whose data_location is VIEW.
    {
      "table_name": "tb3",
      "data_location": "VIEW",
      "columns": [
      {
         "column_name": "column1",
         "type": "string",
         "description": "",
         "is_partition_column": true
      },
      {
         "column_name": "column2",
         "type": "string",
         "description": "",
         "is_partition_column": false
      }
      ],
      "select_statement": "select * from db1.tb1"
    }

Example Response

{
  "is_success": true,
  "message": ""
}

Status Codes

Table 6 describes the status code.

Table 6 Status codes

Status Code

Description

200

The job is created successfully.

400

Request error.

500

Internal service error.

Error Codes

If an error occurs when this API is invoked, the system does not return the result similar to the preceding example, but returns the error code and error information. For details, see Error Codes.