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Streams management

The eKuiper REST api for streams allows you to manage the streams, such as create, describe, show and drop stream definitions.

create a stream

The API is used for creating a stream. For more detailed information of stream definition, please refer to streams.

shell
POST http://localhost:9081/streams

Request sample, the request is a json string with sql field.

json
{"sql":"create stream my_stream (id bigint, name string, score float) WITH ( datasource = \"topic/temperature\", FORMAT = \"json\", KEY = \"id\")"}

This API can run any stream sql statements, not only stream creation.

show streams

The API is used for displaying all of streams defined in the server.

shell
GET http://localhost:9081/streams

Response Sample:

json
["mystream"]

describe a stream

The API is used for print the detailed definition of stream.

shell
GET http://localhost:9081/streams/{id}}

Response Sample:

shell
{
  "Name": "demo",
  "StreamFields": [
    {
      "Name": "temperature",
      "FieldType": {
        "Type": 2
      }
    },
    {
      "Name": "ts",
      "FieldType": {
        "Type": 1
      }
    }
  ],
  "Options": {
    "DATASOURCE": "demo",
    "FORMAT": "JSON"
  }
}

Get stream schema

The API is used to get the stream schema. The schema is inferred from the physical and logical schema definitions.

shell
GET http://localhost:9081/streams/{id}/schema

The format is like Json schema:

json
{
    "id": {
        "type": "bigint"
  },
    "name": {
        "type": "string"
  },
    "age": {
        "type": "bigint"
  },
    "hobbies": {
        "type": "struct",
        "properties": {
          "indoor": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
            }
          },
          "outdoor": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
            }
          }
        }
    }
}

update a stream

The API is used for update the stream definition.

shell
PUT http://localhost:9081/streams/{id}

Path parameter id is the id or name of the old stream.

Request sample, the request is a json string with sql field.

json
{"sql":"create stream my_stream (id bigint, name string, score float) WITH ( datasource = \"topic/temperature\", FORMAT = \"json\", KEY = \"id\")"}

drop a stream

The API is used for drop the stream definition.

shell
DELETE http://localhost:9081/streams/{id}