Describing the Table Information

Function

This API is used to describe metadata information in the specified table.

URI

URI format
GET /v1.0/{project_id}/databases/{database_name}/tables/{table_name}

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 target table resides.
table_name	Yes	String	Name of the target table.

Request

None

Response

**Table 2** Response parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
is_success	Yes	Boolean	Indicates whether the request is successfully executed. Value true indicates that the request is successfully executed.
message	Yes	String	System prompt. If execution succeeds, the parameter setting may be left blank.
column_count	Yes	Integer	Total number of columns in the table.
columns	Yes	Array of Objects	Column information, including the column name, type, and description. For details, see Table 3.
table_type	Yes	String	Table type. The options are as follows: MANAGED: DLI table EXTERNAL: OBS table VIEW: view
data_type	No	String	Data type, including CSV, Parquet, ORC, JSON, and Avro.
data_location	No	String	Path for storing data, which is an OBS path.
storage_properties	No	Array of Objects	Storage attribute, which is in the format of key/value and includes parameters delimiter, escape, quote, header, dateformat, and timestampformat.
table_comment	No	String	Table comment.
create_table_sql	No	String	Statement used to create a table.

**Table 3** **columns** parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
column_name	Yes	String	Column name.
description	Yes	String	Description of a column.
type	Yes	String	Data type of a column.
is_partition_column	Yes	Boolean	Indicates whether the column is a partition column. The value true indicates that the column is a partition column, and the value false indicates that the column is not a partition column. The default value is false.

Example Request

None

Example Response

MANAGED type table

{
  "is_success": true,
  "message": "",
  "column_count": 3,
  "columns": [
    {
      "column_name": "id",
      "description": "",
      "type": "int",
      "is_partition_column": false
    },
    {
      "column_name": "name",
      "description": "",
      "type": "string",
      "is_partition_column": false
    },
    {
      "column_name": "level",
      "description": "",
      "type": "string",
      "is_partition_column": true
    }
  ],
    "table_type":"MANAGED"
}

EXTERNAL type table

{
    "is_success": true,
    "message": "",
    "column_count": 2,
    "columns": [
        {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "",
            "column_name": "col2",
            "is_partition_column": false
        },
        {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "",
            "column_name": "col1",
            "is_partition_column": true
        }
    ],
    "table_type": "EXTERNAL",
    "data_type": "parquet",
    "data_location": "obs://obs-wangtao/savepoint/savepoint-d95437-039668840fff/_metadata",
    "storage_properties": [
        {
            "key": "timestampformat",
            "value": "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"
        },
        {
            "key": "quote",
            "value": "\""
        },
        {
            "key": "dateformat",
            "value": "yyyy-MM-dd"
        },
        {
            "key": "escape",
            "value": "\\"
        },
        {
            "key": "header",
            "value": "false"
        },
        {
            "key": "delimiter",
            "value": ","
        }
    ],
    "table_comment": "",
     "create_table_sql": "CREATE TABLE `default`.`wan_test` (`col2` STRING, `col1` STRING)\nUSING parquet\nOPTIONS (\n  `timestampformat` 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss',\n  `quote` '\"',\n  `dateformat` 'yyyy-MM-dd',\n  `escape` '\\\\',\n  `header` 'false',\n  `delimiter` ','\n)\nPARTITIONED BY (col1)\nCOMMENT ''\nLOCATION 'obs://obs-wangtao/savepoint/savepoint-d95437-039668840fff/_metadata'\nTBLPROPERTIES (\n  'hive.serialization.extend.nesting.levels' = 'true'\n)\n"
   }

VIEW type table

{
  "is_success": true,
  "message": "",
  "column_count": 3,
  "columns": [
    {
      "column_name": "id",
      "description": "",
      "type": "int",
      "is_partition_column": false
    },
    {
      "column_name": "name",
      "description": "",
      "type": "string",
      "is_partition_column": false
    },
    {
      "column_name": "level",
      "description": "",
      "type": "string",
      "is_partition_column": true
    }
  ],
  "table_type":"VIEW",
  "create_table_sql": "CREATE VIEW `default`.`view1`(id, name) AS\nselect * from a_gff.testtable\n"
}

Status Codes

Table 4 describes the status code.

**Table 4** Status codes
Status Code	Description
200	The operation is successful.
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 Code.

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