Get Records

Retrieves records from a given table, optionally filtered by an expression and/or sorted by a column. This operation can be performed on tables, views, or on homogeneous collections (collections containing tables of all the same type). Records can be returned encoded as binary, json or geojson.

This operation supports paging through the data via the input parameter offset and input parameter limit parameters. Note that when paging through a table, if the table (or the underlying table in case of a view) is updated (records are inserted, deleted or modified) the records retrieved may differ between calls based on the updates applied.

Input Parameter Description

Name	Type	Description
table_name	string	Name of the table from which the records will be fetched. Must be a table, view or homogeneous collection.
offset	long	A positive integer indicating the number of initial results to skip (this can be useful for paging through the results). The default value is 0.The minimum allowed value is 0. The maximum allowed value is MAX_INT.
limit	long	A positive integer indicating the maximum number of results to be returned. Or END_OF_SET (-9999) to indicate that the max number of results should be returned. The number of records returned will never exceed the server's own limit, defined by the max_get_records_size parameter in the server configuration. Use output parameter has_more_records to see if more records exist in the result to be fetched, and input parameter offset & input parameter limit to request subsequent pages of results. The default value is -9999.
encoding	string	Specifies the encoding for returned records. The default value is binary. The supported values are: binary json geojson
options	map of string to strings	The default value is an empty map ( {} ). Supported Parameters (keys) Parameter Description expression Optional filter expression to apply to the table. fast_index_lookup Indicates if indexes should be used to perform the lookup for a given expression if possible. Only applicable if there is no sorting, the expression contains only equivalence comparisons based on existing tables indexes and the range of requested values is from [0 to END_OF_SET]. The default value is true. The supported values are: true false sort_by Optional column that the data should be sorted by. Empty by default (i.e. no sorting is applied). sort_order String indicating how the returned values should be sorted - ascending or descending. If sort_order is provided, sort_by has to be provided. The default value is ascending. The supported values are: ascending descending

Output Parameter Description

Name	Type	Description
table_name	string	Value of input parameter table_name.
type_name	string
type_schema	string	Avro schema of output parameter records_binary or output parameter records_json
records_binary	array of bytes	If the input parameter encoding was 'binary', then this list contains the binary encoded records retrieved from the table, otherwise not populated.
records_json	array of strings	If the input parameter encoding was 'json', then this list contains the JSON encoded records retrieved from the table. If the input parameter encoding was 'geojson' this list contains a single entry consisting of a GeoJSON FeatureCollection containing a feature per record. Otherwise not populated.
total_number_of_records	long	Total/Filtered number of records.
has_more_records	boolean	Too many records. Returned a partial set.
info	map of string to strings	Additional information.