- cURL to run REST queries
If you haven't already, create a database using Astra DB.
Before you get started, set your environment variables to save time developing on your database.
- In Astra DB, select the database to which you want to connect.
- In your Database Dashboard, select Connect.
- Select REST API.
- Follow the steps in the prerequisites to get your application token and set up your environment variables.
- In your command-line interface associated with your environment, paste the following environment variables copied for your Astra DB database:
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Now you are ready to get started:
- Create a table in your keyspace
- Create an index for a table
- Add columns to your table
- Delete columns in your table
- Drop tables from your keyspace
- Add rows to your table
- Retrieve rows in your table
- Update rows from your table
- Delete rows in your table
To view the API Reference, see Astra DB REST API.
If you prefer, you can use Postman as a client interface for exploring REST APIs(download here).We've provided ahttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/stargate/docs/master/modules/developers-guide/examples/json/StargateRESTAPI_userskeyspaceAstra.postman_collection.json[Stargate REST API Postman Collection]that you can import in Postman to play with the examples shown in this walkthrough.
Now you're ready to use the REST API for CRUD operations.