Types & Getters
Get Index Type
POST
/
v1
/
indexes
/
describe
Get Index Type
curl --request POST \
--url https://api.example.com/v1/indexes/describeimport requests
url = "https://api.example.com/v1/indexes/describe"
response = requests.post(url)
print(response.text)const options = {method: 'POST'};
fetch('https://api.example.com/v1/indexes/describe', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.example.com/v1/indexes/describe",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.example.com/v1/indexes/describe"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, nil)
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.example.com/v1/indexes/describe")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://api.example.com/v1/indexes/describe")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_bodyExtract the index type from the describe response. This indicates the algorithm used for the vector index.
Request Body
{
"index_name": "my_index",
"index_key": "64_character_hex_string_representing_32_bytes"
}
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Response
The response contains the index type in theindex_type field:
{
"index_type": "ivfflat"
}
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string
Type of the current index (ivf, ivfflat, ivfpq)
Example Usage
# Retrieve the type of index
index_type=$(curl -s -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/indexes/describe" \
-H "X-API-Key: cyborg_your_api_key_here" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"index_name": "my_index",
"index_key": "your_64_character_hex_key_here"
}' | jq -r '.index_type')
echo "Index type: $index_type"
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