Indexes

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Create and manage data indexes.

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data/vix-indexes

Provides services to create and manage data indexes.

GET data/vix-indexes

Lists the recognized indexes on the server.

Request

See Common GET request parameters.

HTTP status codes

See HTTP status code table.

Example

Lists the virtual indexes on this instance.

curl -k -u admin:pass https://localhost:8089/services/data/vix-indexes

POST data/vix-indexes

Creates a new index with the given name.

Request

See Common GET request parameters.

HTTP status codes

See HTTP status code table.

Example

The following example creates an index named Shadow.

curl -k -u admin:pass https://localhost:8089/services/data/vix-indexes -d name=Shadow -d vix.provider=Shadow

data/vix-indexes/{name}

DELETE data/vix-indexes/{name}

Removes the index specified by {name} (not just the data contained in it).

Request

See Common GET request parameters.

Response

None

HTTP status codes

See HTTP status code table.

Example

Deletes the index named shadow.

curl -k -u admin:pass --request DELETE https://localhost:8089/services/data/vix-indexes/Shadow

GET data/indexes/{name}

Retrieves information about the named index.

Request

See Common GET request parameters.

Response

None

HTTP status codes

See HTTP status code table.

Example

Lists information about the Shadow index.

curl -k -u admin:pass https://localhost:8089/services/data/vix-indexes/Shadow

POST data/vix-indexes/{name}

Updates the data index specified by {name} with information specified with index attributes.

Request

See Common GET request parameters.

Response

None

HTTP status codes

See HTTP status code table.

Example

The following example updates the maximum size of the index named "Shadow", setting the size at 400000 MB.

This index was created in the example for the POST operation for this endpoint.

curl -k -u admin:pass https://localhost:8089/services/data/vix-indexes/Shadow -d vix.*=Shadow
/data/indexes/shadow