Head is used to retrieve document metadata from a database.
Syntax
curl \
http://{serverName}/databases/{databaseName}/docs/{key} \
-X HEAD
Request
| Query parameter |
Required |
Description |
| key |
Yes |
key of a document to get metadata for |
Response
| Status code |
Description |
200 |
OK |
| Header |
Description |
| anyHeader |
Metadata of document is returned as response headers |
Example I
Gets metadata of employees/1.
curl -X HEAD "http://localhost:8080/databases/NorthWind/docs/employees/1"
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< ETag: "01000000-0000-0001-0000-00000000006B"
< Raven-Entity-Name: Employees
< Raven-Clr-Type: Orders.Employee, Northwind
< Non-Authoritative-Information: False
< __document_id: employees/1
< Raven-Last-Modified: 2014-11-06T12:47:28.9789141Z