List Collections

This operation lists all collections in the specified database.

Example

export MILVUS_URI="localhost:19530"

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

The possible output will be similar to the following:

{
  "code": 0,
  "data": [
    "quick_setup_new",
    "customized_setup_1",
    "customized_setup_2"
  ]
}

Request

Parameters

• Header parameters

  Parameter	Description
  Request-Timeout	integer The timeout duration for this operation. Setting this to None indicates that this operation times out when any response returns or an error occurs.
  Authorization	string The authentication token

• No query parameters required

• No path parameters required

Request Body

{
    "dbName": "string"
}

Parameter	Description
dbName	string The name of an existing database.

Response

This operation lists all collections in the database used in the current connection.

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.
message	string Indicates the possible reason for the reported error.
data	array A list of collection names.
data[]	string A collection name.