List the series available in a database

[hvt]

No description provided.

[auxesis]

👍

[FGRibreau]

👍

[bs-github]

👍

[pauldix]

This should be implemented in the query language so clients won't need to be updated to hit a new HTTP endpoint.

show series;

or maybe

show tables;

?

[hvt]

I would prefer the former. Distinguishes a time serie db a little more from a relational one :].

[FGRibreau]

list seems to feel more natural to me (but english is not my native language):

list series;

[pauldix]

I think list is more natural, but I used show because that's what SQL uses. But maybe it's ok to deviate?

[FGRibreau]

Nice !

[jvshahid]

The response should look like the following:

[{"name": "series_name", columns: [], points: []}]

the columns and points can be omitted.

[jonashaag]

Has the last commit been reverted? It's still the old format...

$ curl "http://XXX:8086/db/demo/series?q=list%20series&u=XXX&p=XXX"
[{"name":"list_series_result","columns":["time","name"],"points":[[0,"demo"],[0,"demo2"],[0,"demo3"]]}]

$ influxdb -v
InfluxDB v0.8.5 (git: 9485e99) (leveldb: 1.15)

[pauldix]

That looks like the correct format to me. What were you expecting?

[jonashaag]

From 2a7c7d5f14b60755e33b87aa98c7ffb74b3473b3:

Previously we returned a single time series with the name "names" that
had one point per time series with the column "name" set to the time
series name. This patch changes the behavior of the server to return a
single time series with no points for each time series in the given db.

I was expecting

[{"name":"demo","columns":[],"points":[]},
 {"name":"demo2","columns":[],"points":[]},
 {"name":"demo3","columns":[],"points":[]}

[jonashaag]

This ticket should be reopened.