Insert

This operation inserts data into a specific collection.

Notes You can insert a maximum of 100 entities at a time. To insert large volumes of data, please use the bulk-insert API.

Example

export MILVUS_URI="localhost:19530"

curl --location --request POST "http://${MILVUS_URI}/v2/vectordb/entities/insert" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data-raw '{
    "data": [
        {"id": 0, "vector": [0.3580376395471989, -0.6023495712049978, 0.18414012509913835, -0.26286205330961354, 0.9029438446296592], "color": "pink_8682"},
        {"id": 1, "vector": [0.19886812562848388, 0.06023560599112088, 0.6976963061752597, 0.2614474506242501, 0.838729485096104], "color": "red_7025"},
        {"id": 2, "vector": [0.43742130801983836, -0.5597502546264526, 0.6457887650909682, 0.7894058910881185, 0.20785793220625592], "color": "orange_6781"},
        {"id": 3, "vector": [0.3172005263489739, 0.9719044792798428, -0.36981146090600725, -0.4860894583077995, 0.95791889146345], "color": "pink_9298"},
        {"id": 4, "vector": [0.4452349528804562, -0.8757026943054742, 0.8220779437047674, 0.46406290649483184, 0.30337481143159106], "color": "red_4794"},
        {"id": 5, "vector": [0.985825131989184, -0.8144651566660419, 0.6299267002202009, 0.1206906911183383, -0.1446277761879955], "color": "yellow_4222"},
        {"id": 6, "vector": [0.8371977790571115, -0.015764369584852833, -0.31062937026679327, -0.562666951622192, -0.8984947637863987], "color": "red_9392"},
        {"id": 7, "vector": [-0.33445148015177995, -0.2567135004164067, 0.8987539745369246, 0.9402995886420709, 0.5378064918413052], "color": "grey_8510"},
        {"id": 8, "vector": [0.39524717779832685, 0.4000257286739164, -0.5890507376891594, -0.8650502298996872, -0.6140360785406336], "color": "white_9381"},
        {"id": 9, "vector": [0.5718280481994695, 0.24070317428066512, -0.3737913482606834, -0.06726932177492717, -0.6980531615588608], "color": "purple_4976"}        
    ],
    "collectionName": "quick_setup"
}'

Possible response is similar to the following:

{
    "code": 0,
    "data": {
        "insertCount": 10,
        "insertIds": [
            0,
            1,
            2,
            3,
            4,
            5,
            6,
            7,
            8,
            9
        ]
    }
}

Request

Parameters

• Header parameters

  Parameter	Description
  Request-Timeout	integer The timeout duration for this operation. 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",
    "partitionName": "string"
}

Parameter	Description
dbName	string The name of the target database.
collectionName *	string The name of an existing collection.
data	object | array[object] The data to insert into the current collection. The data to insert should be a dictionary that matches the schema of the current collection or a list of such dictionaries.
partitionName	string The name of a partition in the current collection. If specified, the data is to be inserted into the specified partition.

Response

A dictionary contains information about the number of inserted entities.

Response Bodies

• Response body if we process your request successfully

{
    "code": "integer",
    "data": {
        "insertCount": "integer",
        "insertIds": [
            {}
        ]
    }
}

• 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	object
data.insertCount	integer The number of inserted entities.
data[].insertIds	array An array of the IDs of inserted entities.
data[].insertIds[]	string