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Get a Database by Name

Base URL: https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/public/v1.0

Resource

GET /groups/{PROJECT-ID}/hosts/{HOST-ID}/databases/{DATABASE-NAME}

Retrieve a single database by name.

Request Path Parameters

Parameter Type Description
PROJECT-ID string (Required.) Unique identifier of the project that owns this MongoDB process.
HOST-ID string (Required.) Unique identifier of the host running the MongoDB process.
DATABASE-NAME string (Required.) The name of the MongoDB database.

Request Query Parameters

The following query parameters are optional:

Name Type Necessity Description Default
pretty boolean Optional Flag indicating whether the response body should be in a prettyprint format. false
envelope boolean Optional

Flag that indicates whether or not to wrap the response in an envelope.

Some API clients cannot access the HTTP response headers or status code. To remediate this, set envelope=true in the query.

For endpoints that return one result, the response body includes:

Name Description
status HTTP response code
envelope Expected response body
false

Request Body Parameters

This endpoint does not use HTTP request body parameters.

Response

Name Type Description
databaseName string The name of the database.
links array Links to the group that the database belongs to, the MongoDB host running the database, and database measurements. The relations between URLs are explained in the Web Linking Specification.

Example Request

curl --user "{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}" --digest \
 --header "Accept: application/json" \
 --include \
 --request GET "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/public/v1.0/groups/644d5895b911306f21034b/hosts/gd5b59198ec14bd142494/databases/test"

Example Response

Response Header

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Content-Type: application/json;charset=ISO-8859-1
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
WWW-Authenticate: Digest realm="MMS Public API", domain="", nonce="{nonce}", algorithm=MD5, op="auth", stale=false
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}
Connection: keep-alive
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: application/json
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=300
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}
X-MongoDB-Service-Version: gitHash={gitHash}; versionString={ApplicationVersion}

Response Body

{
  "databaseName" : "test",
  "links" : []
}