describeCollection()

This operation lists detailed information about a specific collection.

describeCollection(data): Promise<DescribeCollectionResponse>

Request Syntax

milvusClient.describeCollection({ 
    db_name: string,
    collection_name: string 
})

PARAMETERS:

• db_name (string) -

  The name of the database that holds the target collection.

• collection_name (string) -

  [REQUIRED]

  The name of an existing collection.

• timeout (number)

  The timeout duration for this operation.

  Setting this to None indicates that this operation timeouts when any response arrives or any error occurs.

*Returns Promise<DescribeCollectionResponse>

This method returns a promise that resolves to a DescribeCollectionResponse object.

{
    aliases: string,
    collectionID: string,
    consistency_level: string,
    created_timestamp: string,
    created_utc_timestamp: string,
    db_name: string,
    num_partitions: string,
    physical_channel_names: string,
    schema: object,
    shards_num: int,
    start_positions: string,
    status: object,
    virtual_channel_names: string  
}

PARAMETERS:

• aliases (string)-

  A list of the aliases of the collection.

• collectionID (string)-

  The ID of the collection.

• consistency_level (string)-

  The consistency level of the collection.

• created_timestamp (string)-

  The timestamp indicating the creation time of the collection.

• created_utc_timestamp (string)-

  The timestamp in UTC indicating the creation time of the collection.

• db_name (string)-

  The name of the cluster to which the collection belongs.

• num_partitions (string)-

  The number of partitions in the collection.

• physical_channel_names (string)-

  A list of the names of the physical channels in this collection.

• schema (object)-

  The CollectionSchema object.

  • autoID (boolean) -

    Whether the primary field automatically increments along with data insertions.

  • description (string) -

    Collection description.

  • enable_dynamic_field (boolean) -

    Whether the reserved JSON field $meta is used to store non-schema-defined fields in key-value pairs.

  • fields (FieldSchema[]) -

    A list of schema-defined fields.

  • name (string) -

    The name of CollectionSchema object.

• shards_num (string)-

  The number of shards in the collection.

• virtual_channel_names (string)-

A list of the names of the virtual channels in this collection.

• status (object)-

  • code (number) -

    A code that indicates the operation result. It remains 0 if this operation succeeds.

  • error_code (string | number) -

    An error code that indicates an occurred error. It remains Success if this operation succeeds.

  • reason (string) -

    The reason that indicates the reason for the reported error. It remains an empty string if this operation succeeds.

• shards_num (string)-

  The number of shards in the collection.

Example

const milvusClient = new milvusClient(MILUVS_ADDRESS);
 const res = await milvusClient.describeCollection({ collection_name: 'my_collection' });