Insert Or Replace Entity
The Insert Or Replace Entity
operation replaces an existing entity, or inserts a new entity if it doesn't exist in the table. Because this operation can insert or update an entity, it's also known as an upsert operation.
Request
You can construct the Insert Or Replace Entity
request as follows. HTTPS is recommended. Replace the following values with your own:
myaccount
with the name of your storage accountmytable
with the name of your tablemyPartitionKey
andmyRowKey
with the name of the partition key and row key for the entity to be updated
Method | Request URI | HTTP version |
---|---|---|
PUT |
https://myaccount.table.core.windows.net/mytable(PartitionKey='myPartitionKey', RowKey='myRowKey') |
HTTP/1.1 |
Emulated storage service
When you make a request against the emulated storage service, specify the emulator hostname and Azure Table Storage port as 127.0.0.1:10002, followed by the emulated storage account name.
Method | Request URI | HTTP version |
---|---|---|
PUT |
http://127.0.0.1:10002/devstoreaccount1/mytable(PartitionKey='myPartitionKey', RowKey='myRowKey') |
HTTP/1.1 |
Table Storage in the Storage emulator differs from Azure Table Storage in several ways. For more information, see Differences between the Storage emulator and Azure Storage services.
URI parameters
You can specify the following additional parameter on the request URI.
Parameter | Description |
---|---|
timeout |
Optional. The timeout parameter is expressed in seconds. For more information, see Setting timeouts for Table Storage operations. |
Request headers
The following table describes required and optional request headers.
Request header | Description |
---|---|
Authorization |
Required. Specifies the authorization scheme, account name, and signature. For more information, see Authorize requests to Azure Storage. |
Date or x-ms-date |
Required. Specifies the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) for the request. For more information, see Authorize requests to Azure Storage. |
x-ms-version |
Required. Must be set to 2011-08-18 or later. Specifies the version of the operation to use for this request. For more information, see Versioning for the Azure Storage services. |
Content-Type |
Required. Specifies the content type of the payload. Possible values are application/atom+xml and application/json .For more formation about valid content types, see Payload format for Table Storage operations. |
Content-Length |
Required. The length of the request body. |
x-ms-client-request-id |
Optional. Provides a client-generated, opaque value with a 1-kibibyte (KiB) character limit that's recorded in the logs when logging is configured. We highly recommend that you use this header to correlate client-side activities with requests that the server receives. For more information, see Monitor Azure Table Storage. |
Request body
The Insert Or Replace Entity
operation sends the entity to be inserted as an OData
entity set. This entity set can be either a JSON or an Atom feed. For more information, see Inserting and updating entities.
Note
JSON is the recommended payload format, and is the only format supported for version 2015-12-11 and later.
Response
The response includes an HTTP status code and a set of response headers.
Status code
A successful operation returns status code 204 (No Content). For information about status codes, see Status and error codes, and Table Storage error codes.
Response headers
The response includes the following headers. The response can also include additional, standard HTTP headers. All standard headers conform to the HTTP/1.1 protocol specification.
Response header | Description |
---|---|
ETag |
The ETag for the entity. |
x-ms-request-id |
Uniquely identifies the request that was made, and can be used for troubleshooting the request. For more information, see Troubleshooting API operations. |
x-ms-version |
Indicates the version of Table Storage used to run the request. This header is returned for requests made against version 2009-09-19 and later. |
Date |
A UTC date/time value that indicates the time at which the response was initiated. The service generates this value. |
x-ms-client-request-id |
Can be used to troubleshoot requests and corresponding responses. The value of this header is equal to the value of the x-ms-client-request-id header, if it's present in the request. The value is at most 1,024 visible ASCII characters. If the x-ms-client-request-id header isn't present in the request, it won't be present in the response. |
Response body
None.
Authorization
The account owner can perform this operation. Additionally, anyone with a shared access signature that has permission to perform this operation can do so.
Sample request and response
The following examples show sample requests that use JSON and Atom feeds.
Note
JSON is the recommended payload format, and is the only format supported for version 2015-12-11 and later.
JSON (version 2013-08-15 and later)
The following is a sample request and response that uses JSON.
PUT https://myaccount.table.core.windows.net/mytable(PartitionKey='myPartitionKey',RowKey='myRowKey')
The request is sent with the following headers:
x-ms-version: 2013-08-15
Content-Type: application/json
x-ms-date: Tue, 30 Aug 2013 18:10:24 GMT
Authorization: SharedKeyLite myaccount:u0sWZKmjBD1B7LY/CwXWCnHdqK4B1P4z8hKy9SVW49o=
Content-Length: 1135
DataServiceVersion: 3.0;NetFx
MaxDataServiceVersion: 3.0;NetFx
The request is sent with the following JSON body:
{
"Address":"Santa Clara",
"Age":23,
"AmountDue":200.23,
"CustomerCode@odata.type":"Edm.Guid",
"CustomerCode":"c9da6455-213d-42c9-9a79-3e9149a57833",
"CustomerSince@odata.type":"Edm.DateTime",
"CustomerSince":"2008-07-10T00:00:00",
"IsActive":false,
"NumberOfOrders@odata.type":"Edm.Int64",
"NumberOfOrders":"255",
"PartitionKey":"mypartitionkey",
"RowKey":"myrowkey"
}
After the request has been sent, the following response is returned:
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Connection: Keep-Alive
x-ms-request-id: 2c085f8f-11a4-4e1d-bd49-82c6bd87649d
Content-Length: 0
Cache-Control: no-cache
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2013 18:12:54 GMT
ETag: W/"0x5B168C7B6E589D2"
DataServiceVersion: 3.0;NetFx
MaxDataServiceVersion: 3.0;NetFx
Server: Windows-Azure-Table/1.0 Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0
Atom feed (versions prior to 2015-12-11)
The following is a sample request and response that uses Atom.
PUT https://myaccount.table.core.windows.net/mytable(PartitionKey='myPartitionKey',RowKey='myRowKey')
The request is sent with the following headers:
x-ms-version: 2013-08-15
Accept: application/atom+xml,application/xml
Accept-Charset: UTF-8
Content-Type: application/atom+xml
x-ms-date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 18:10:24 GMT
Authorization: SharedKeyLite myaccount:u0sWZKmjBD1B7LY/CwXWCnHdqK4B1P4z8hKy9SVW49o=
Content-Length: 1135
DataServiceVersion: 1.0;NetFx
MaxDataServiceVersion: 2.0;NetFx
The request is sent with the following XML body:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<entry xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" xmlns="https://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<title />
<updated>2013-11-12T18:09:37.168836Z</updated>
<author>
<name />
</author>
<id>https://myaccount.table.core.windows.net/mytable(PartitionKey='mypartitionkey',RowKey='myrowkey1')</id>
<content type="application/xml">
<m:properties>
<d:Address>Santa Clara</d:Address>
<d:Age m:type="Edm.Int32">23</d:Age>
<d:AmountDue m:type="Edm.Double">200.23</d:AmountDue>
<d:CustomerCode m:type="Edm.Guid">c9da6455-213d-42c9-9a79-3e9149a57833</d:CustomerCode>
<d:CustomerSince m:type="Edm.DateTime">2008-07-10T00:00:00Z</d:CustomerSince>
<d:IsActive m:type="Edm.Boolean">false</d:IsActive>
<d:NumOfOrders m:type="Edm.Int64">255</d:NumOfOrders>
<d:PartitionKey>mypartitionkey</d:PartitionKey>
<d:RowKey>myrowkey1</d:RowKey>
</m:properties>
</content>
</entry>
After the request has been sent, the following response is returned:
HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
Connection: Keep-Alive
x-ms-request-id: 2c085f8f-11a4-4e1d-bd49-82c6bd87649d
Content-Length: 0
Cache-Control: no-cache
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 18:12:54 GMT
ETag: W/"0x5B168C7B6E589D2"
DataServiceVersion: 1.0;NetFx
MaxDataServiceVersion: 2.0;NetFx
Server: Windows-Azure-Table/1.0 Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0
Remarks
The Insert Or Replace Entity
operation doesn't use the If-Match
header. You must call this operation by using the 2011-08-18 version or later. These attributes distinguish this operation from the Update Entity operation.
If you use the Insert Or Replace Entity
operation to replace an entity, any properties from the previous entity are removed, if the new entity doesn't define them. Properties with a null
value are also removed.
When you call the Insert or Replace Entity
operation, you must specify values for the PartitionKey
and RowKey
system properties. Together, these properties form the primary key, and must be unique within the table.
Both the PartitionKey
and RowKey
values must be string values. PartitionKey
and RowKey
values can be up to 1024 characters in size. If you're using an integer value for the key value, you should convert the integer to a fixed-width string. This is because they are canonically sorted. For example, convert the value 1
to 0000001
, to ensure proper sorting.
To explicitly type a property, specify the appropriate OData
data type by setting the m:type
attribute within the property definition in the Atom feed. For more information about typing properties, see Inserting and updating entities.
Any application that can authorize and send an HTTP PUT
request can insert or replace an entity.
For information about performing batch upsert operations, see Performing entity group transactions.
See also
Authorize requests to Azure Storage
Setting the OData data service version headers
Inserting and updating entities
Status and error codes
Table Storage error codes