Query

This operation conducts a filtering on the scalar field with a specified boolean expression.

POST

/v2/vectordb/entities/query

Cluster Endpoint

The base URL for this API is in the following format:

https://${CLUSTER_ENDPOINT}

📘Notes

• You need to fill in ${CLUSTER_ENDPOINT} with that of your Zilliz Cloud cluster.
• To get the endpoint, refer to On Zilliz Cloud Console or use the Describe Cluster V2 API to extract the values from the responses.

export CLUSTER_ENDPOINT=""

Parameters

Authorizationstringheader

The authentication token should be an API key with appropriate privileges or a pair of colon-joined username and password, like username:password.

Example Value: Bearer {{TOKEN}}

Request Bodyapplication/json

collectionNamestringrequired

The name of the collection to which this operation applies.

filterstringrequired

The filter used to find matches for the search.

outputFieldsarray

An array of fields to return along with the query results.

[]outputFieldsstring

An output field name.

partitionNamesarray

The name of the partitions to which this operation applies. Setting this parameter restricts the operation to the specified partitions. If not set, the operation applies to all partitions in the collection.

[]partitionNamesstring

A partition name.

limitinteger

The total number of entities to return. You can use this parameter in combination with offset in param to enable pagination. The sum of this value and offset in param should be less than 16,384.

offsetinteger

The number of records to skip in the search result. You can use this parameter in combination with limit to enable pagination. The sum of this value and limit should be less than 16,384.

export TOKEN="db_admin:xxxxxxxxxxxxx"

curl --request POST \
--url "${CLUSTER_ENDPOINT}/v2/vectordb/entities/query" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
    "collectionName": "quick_setup",
    "filter": "color like \"red_%\"",
    "outputFields": [
        "color"
    ],
    "limit": 3
}'

Responses200 - application/json

SUCCESS

codeinteger

Response code.

dataarray

A list of dictionaries with each dictionary representing a queried entity.

[]dataobject

An entity object

FAILURE

Returns an error message.

codeinteger

Response code.

messagestring

Error message.

SUCCESS

{
    "code": 0,
    "cost": 0,
    "data": [
        {
            "color": "red_7025",
            "id": 1
        },
        {
            "color": "red_4794",
            "id": 4
        },
        {
            "color": "red_9392",
            "id": 6
        }
    ]
}