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/has/type

URL: http://<db.host>:<db.port>/has/type

Check for the existence of a type.

Input Parameter Description

Name	Type	Description
type_id	string	Id of the type returned in response to /create/type request.
options	map of string to strings	Optional parameters. The default value is an empty map ( {} ).

Output Parameter Description

The GPUdb server embeds the endpoint response inside a standard response structure which contains status information and the actual response to the query. Here is a description of the various fields of the wrapper:

Name

Type

Description

status

String

'OK' or 'ERROR'

message

String

Empty if success or an error message

data_type

String

'has_type_response' or 'none' in case of an error

data

String

Empty string

data_str

JSON or String

This embedded JSON represents the result of the /has/type endpoint:

Name

Type

Description

type_id

string

Value of input parameter type_id.

type_exists

boolean

Indicates whether the type exists or not. Possible values are:

true
false

info

map of string to strings

Additional information.

Empty string in case of an error.