Check for namespace

The Document API uses a namespace as a container to store collections, which in turn store documents. Documents can themselves hold multiple documents. Multiple collections are contained in a namespace, but a collection cannot be contained in multiple namespaces.

To check if a namespaces exist, execute a Document API query with cURL to find all the namespaces:

cURL command (/v2)
Result

curl -sL -X GET --url http://$ASTRA_CLUSTER_ID-$ASTRA_REGION.apps.astra.datastax.com/api/rest/v2/schemas/namespaces \
-H "X-Cassandra-Token: $ASTRA_DB_APPLICATION_TOKEN" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json'

{"data":[{"name":"system_distributed"},{"name":"system"},
{"name":"data_endpoint_auth"},{"name":"system_schema"},{"name":"myworld"},
{"name":"stargate_system"},{"name":"system_auth"},{"name":"system_traces"}]}

To get a particular namespace, specify the namespace in the URL:

cURL command (/v2)
Result

curl -sL -X GET 'http://$ASTRA_CLUSTER_ID-$ASTRA_REGION.apps.astra.datastax.com/api/rest/v2/schemas/namespaces/myworld' \
--header "X-Cassandra-Token: $ASTRA_DB_APPLICATION_TOKEN" \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json'

{"data":{"name":"myworld"}}