Get a Database by Name¶

On this page

Resource
Response
Example Request
Example Response
- Response Header
- Response Body

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¶

copy

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¶