List user-defined types (UDTs)

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Gets information about the user-defined types (UDTs) in a keyspace.

Ready to write code? See the examples for this method to get started. If you are new to the Data API, check out the quickstart.

Result

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Returns an unordered list of ListTypeDescriptor objects that describe each user-defined type in the keyspace.

Returns a promise that resolves to an unordered list of TypeDescriptor objects that describe each user-defined type in the keyspace.

Returns an unordered list of TableUserDefinedTypeDescriptor objects that describe each user-defined type in the keyspace.

The status.types field in the response describes each user-defined type.

Example response:

{
  "status": {
    "types": [
      {
        "type": "userDefined",
        "udtName": "address",
        "definition": {
          "fields": {
            "city": {
              "type": "text"
            },
            "country": {
              "type": "text"
            }
          }
        },
        "apiSupport": {
          "createTable": true,
          "insert": true,
          "read": true,
          "filter": false,
          "cqlDefinition": "demo.address"
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}

Parameters

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Use the list_types method, which belongs to the astrapy.Database class.

Method signature

list_types(
  *,
  keyspace: str,
  table_admin_timeout_ms: int,
  request_timeout_ms: int,
  timeout_ms: int,
) -> list[ListTypeDescriptor]

Name Type Summary

Name	Type	Summary
`keyspace`	`str`	Optional. The keyspace to inspect. Default: The database’s working keyspace.
`table_admin_timeout_ms`	`int`	A timeout, in milliseconds, for the underlying HTTP request. If not provided, the `Database` setting is used. This parameter is aliased as `request_timeout_ms` and `timeout_ms` for convenience.

keyspace

str

Optional. The keyspace to inspect.

Default: The database’s working keyspace.

table_admin_timeout_ms

int

A timeout, in milliseconds, for the underlying HTTP request. If not provided, the Database setting is used. This parameter is aliased as request_timeout_ms and timeout_ms for convenience.

Use the listTypes method, which belongs to the Db class.

Method signature

async listTypes(
  options?: {
    nameOnly?: false,
    keyspace?: string,
    timeout?: number | TimeoutDescriptor,
  },
): TypeDescriptor[]

Name Type Summary

Name	Type	Summary
`options`	`ListTypesOptions`	Optional. The options for this operation. See Properties of `options` for more details.

options

ListTypesOptions

Optional. The options for this operation. See Properties of options for more details.

Properties of `options`
Name	Type	Summary
`nameOnly`	`false`	Optional. Must be `false` or undefined to return metadata about the user defined types. Otherwise, only the user defined type names are returned.
`keyspace`	`string`	Optional. The keyspace to inspect. Default: The database’s working keyspace.
`timeout`	`number` \| `TimeoutDescriptor`	Optional. A timeout to impose on the underlying API request.

Use the listTypes method, which belongs to the com.datastax.astra.client.databases.Database class.

Method signature

List<TableUserDefinedTypeDescriptor> listTypes()

List<TableUserDefinedTypeDescriptor> listTypes(ListTypesOptions options)

Name Type Summary

Name	Type	Summary
`options`	`ListTypesOptions`	Optional. The options for this operation, including the keyspace and timeouts.

options

ListTypesOptions

Optional. The options for this operation, including the keyspace and timeouts.

Use the listTypes command.

Command signature

curl -sS -L -X POST "API_ENDPOINT/api/json/v1/KEYSPACE_NAME" \
--header "Token: APPLICATION_TOKEN" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
  "listTypes": {
    "options": {
      "explain": true
    }
  }
}'

Name Type Summary

Name	Type	Summary
`options.explain`	`true`	Must be `true` to return metadata about the user-defined types. Otherwise, only the names of the user-defined types are returned.

options.explain

true

Must be true to return metadata about the user-defined types. Otherwise, only the names of the user-defined types are returned.

Examples

The following examples demonstrate how to get metadata about user-defined types in a keyspace.

Python
TypeScript
Java
curl

from astrapy import DataAPIClient

# Get a database
client = DataAPIClient("APPLICATION_TOKEN")
database = client.get_database("API_ENDPOINT")

# List type metadata
result = database.list_types()
print(result)

import { DataAPIClient } from "@datastax/astra-db-ts";

// Get a database
const client = new DataAPIClient("APPLICATION_TOKEN");
const database = client.db("API_ENDPOINT");

// List type metadata
(async function () {
  const result = await database.listTypes({ nameOnly: false });

  console.log(result);
})();

import com.datastax.astra.client.DataAPIClient;
import com.datastax.astra.client.databases.Database;
import com.datastax.astra.client.tables.definition.types.TableUserDefinedTypeDescriptor;
import java.util.List;

public class Example {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    // Get a database
    Database database = new DataAPIClient("APPLICATION_TOKEN").getDatabase("API_ENDPOINT");

    // List type metadata
    List<TableUserDefinedTypeDescriptor> result = database.listTypes();

    System.out.println(result);
  }
}

curl -sS -L -X POST "API_ENDPOINT/api/json/v1/KEYSPACE_NAME" \
  --header "Token: APPLICATION_TOKEN" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{
  "listTypes": {
    "options": {
      "explain": true
    }
  }
}'

Client reference

Python
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Java
curl

For more information, see the client reference.

Client reference documentation is not applicable for HTTP.

List user-defined types (UDTs)

Result

Parameters

Examples

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