List Partitions — GET ddl/database/:db/table/:table/partition

Description

List all the partitions in an HCatalog table.

URL

http://www.myserver.com/templeton/v1/ddl/database/:db/table/:table/partition

Parameters

Name

Description

Required?

Default

:db

The database name

Required

None

:table

The table name

Required

None

The standard parameters are also supported.

Results

Name

Description

partitions

A list of partition values and of partition names

database

The database name

table

The table name

Example

Curl Command

% curl -s 'http://localhost:50111/templeton/v1/ddl/database/default/table/my_table/partition?user.name=ctdean'

JSON Output

{
  "partitions": [
    {
      "values": [
        {
          "columnName": "dt",
          "columnValue": "20120101"
        },
        {
          "columnName": "country",
          "columnValue": "US"
        }
      ],
      "name": "dt='20120101',country='US'"
    }
  ],
  "database": "default",
  "table": "my_table"
}