Rename Collection

This operation renames an existing collection and optionally moves the collection to a new database.

Example

export MILVUS_URI="localhost:19530"

curl --location --request POST "http://${MILVUS_URI}/v2/vectordb/collections/rename" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data-raw '{
    "dbName": "default",
    "collectionName": "quick_setup"
}'

Possible responses are similar to the following:

{
    "code": 200,
    "data": {}
}

Request

Parameters

• Header parameters

  Parameter	Description
  Request-Timeout	integer The timeout duration for this operation in seconds. Setting this to None indicates that this operation timeouts when any response arrives or any error occurs.
  Authorization	string The authentication token

• No query parameters required

• No path parameters required

Request Body

{
    "dbName": "string",
    "collectionName": "string",
    "newDbName": "string",
    "newCollectionName": "string"
}

Parameter	Description
dbName	string The name of the database to which the collection belongs. Setting this to a non-existing database results in an error.
collectionName *	string The name of the target collection. Setting this to a non-existing collection results in an error.
newDbName	string The name of the database to which the collection belongs after this operation. The value defaults to default. Setting this to a database rather than the one the collection belongs to before this operation moves this collection to the specified database. Setting this to a non-existing database results in an error.
newCollectionName *	string The name of the target collection after this operation. Setting this to the value of old_collection_name results in an error.

Response

None

Response Bodies

• Response body if we process your request successfully

{
    "code": "integer",
    "data": {}
}

• Response body if we failed to process your request

{
    "code": integer,
    "message": string
}

Properties

The properties in the returned response are listed in the following table.

Property	Description
code	integer Indicates whether the request succeeds. 200: The request succeeds. Others: Some error occurs.
data	object
message	string Indicates the possible reason for the reported error.