Catalog - Get View

Service:

Data Lake Analytics

API Version:

2016-11-01

Retrieves the specified view from the Data Lake Analytics catalog.

GET https://{accountName}.{adlaCatalogDnsSuffix}/catalog/usql/databases/{databaseName}/schemas/{schemaName}/views/{viewName}?api-version=2016-11-01

URI Parameters

Name	In	Required	Type	Description
accountName	path	True	string	The Azure Data Lake Analytics account upon which to execute catalog operations.
adlaCatalogDnsSuffix	path	True	string	Gets the DNS suffix used as the base for all Azure Data Lake Analytics Catalog service requests.
databaseName	path	True	string	The name of the database containing the view.
schemaName	path	True	string	The name of the schema containing the view.
viewName	path	True	string	The name of the view.
api-version	query	True	string	Client Api Version.

Responses

Name	Type	Description
200 OK	USqlView	Successfully retrieved the specified view from the underlying database and schema combination

Examples

Retrieves the specified view from the Data Lake Analytics catalog

Sample request

HTTP

GET https://contosoadla.azuredatalakeanalytics.net/catalog/usql/databases/master/schemas/dbo/views/test_view_name?api-version=2016-11-01

Sample response

Status code:

200

{
  "computeAccountName": "contosoadla",
  "version": "34adfa4f-cedf-4dc0-ba29-b6d1a69ab345",
  "databaseName": "master",
  "schemaName": "dbo",
  "viewName": "test_view_name",
  "definition": "test_definition"
}

Definitions

USqlView

Object

A Data Lake Analytics catalog U-SQL view item.

Name	Type	Description
computeAccountName	string	the name of the Data Lake Analytics account.
databaseName	string	the name of the database.
definition	string	the defined query of the view.
schemaName	string	the name of the schema associated with this view and database.
version	string (uuid)	the version of the catalog item.
viewName	string	the name of the view.