Databases and Collections

Introduction 

RESTHeart allows managing dbs and collections.

Create a collection

PUT /foo HTTP/1.1

{ "descr": "just a test collection" }

HTTP/1.1 201 Created

Note that RESTHeart allows to set properties for collections.

Note that some properties are metadata, i.e. they have a special meaning for RESTheart that influences its behavior.

The collection’s properties can be read as follows:

GET /foo/_meta HTTP/1.1

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

{
    "_etag": {
        "$oid": "5d95ef77ab3cf85b199ed3b7"
    },
    "_id": "_meta",
    "descr": "just a test collection"
}

Modify the properties of a collection

PUT and PATCH verbs modify the properties of the collection.

PATCH modifies only properties in the request body; PUT replaces the whole properties set.

PATCH /newDb HTTP/1.1

{ "owner": "Bob" }

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Delete a collection

To delete a collection, the ETag must be passed using the If-Match request header.

Let’s try to delete the collection foo without passing it.

DELETE /foo HTTP/1.1

HTTP/1.1 409 Conflict
...
ETag: 5d95ef77ab3cf85b199ed3b7

{
    "http status code": 409,
    "http status description": "Conflict",
    "message": "The ETag must be provided using the 'If-Match' header."
}

Now let’s pass the If-Match` request header, the db will be deleted.

DELETE /foo HTTP/1.1
If-Match: 5d95ef77ab3cf85b199ed3b7

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

Before running the example requests for dbs

The following examples that all dbs are exposes via RESTHeart. For this, edit the property file etc/default.properties and set root-mongo-resource = '*':

# The MongoDB resource to bind to the root URI /
# The format is /db[/coll[/docid]] or '*' to expose all dbs
root-mongo-resource = '*'

After restarting RESTHeart, all MongoDB resources are exposes by RESTHeart. With this configuration the URIs are a follows:

• database: /restheart,
• collection: /restheart/inventory
• document: /restheart/inventory/5d08b08097c4c04680c41579.

For instance, we can list the existing dbs as follows:

GET / HTTP/1.1

[
    "restheart",
    "myDb",
    ...
]

Create a db

PUT /newDb HTTP/1.1

{ "descr": "just a test db" }

HTTP/1.1 201 Created

Note that RESTHeart allows to set properties for dbs.

Note that some properties are metadata, i.e. they have a special meaning for RESTheart that influences its behavior.

This properties can be read as follows:

GET /newDb/_meta HTTP/1.1

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

{
    "_etag": {
        "$oid": "5d95ed1dab3cf85b199ed3b6"
    },
    "_id": "_meta",
    "desc": "just a test db"
}

Modify the properties of a db

PUT and PATCH verbs modify the properties of the collection.

PATCH /newDb HTTP/1.1

{ "owner": "Bob" }

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Delete a db

To delete a db, the ETag must be passed using the If-Match request header.

Let’s try to delete the newDb without passing it.

DELETE /newDb HTTP/1.1

HTTP/1.1 409 Conflict
...
ETag: 5d95ed1dab3cf85b199ed3b6

{
    "http status code": 409,
    "http status description": "Conflict",
    "message": "The database's ETag must be provided using the 'If-Match' header."
}

Now let’s pass the If-Match` request header, the db will be deleted.

DELETE /newDb HTTP/1.1
If-Match: 5d95ed1dab3cf85b199ed3b6

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content