---
title: "GET /shares/{share}/schemas/{schema}/tables/{name}/metadata"
method: GET
path: "/shares/{share}/schemas/{schema}/tables/{name}/metadata"
tags: ["DeltaSharingService"]
---

# GET /shares/{share}/schemas/{schema}/tables/{name}/metadata

`GET /shares/{share}/schemas/{schema}/tables/{name}/metadata`

## Path parameters

- `share` string, required
- `schema` string, required
- `name` string, required

## Response `200`

OK

- QueryResponse — Response for a query against a table.
  - `parquet` ParquetResponse — Response for a query against a table in Parquet format.
    - `entries` ParquetLogMessage[]
      - `protocol` ProtocolParquet — Protocol for Parquet response.
        - `minReaderVersion` integer — The minimum version of the protocol that a client must implement in order to correctly read a Delta Lake table.
      - `metadata` MetadataParquet — Metadata for Parquet response.
        - `id` string — Unique identifier for this table
        - `name` string — User-provided identifier for this table
        - `description` string — User-provided description for this table
        - `format` Format — File format for data files in a table
          - `provider` string — Name of the encoding for files in this table
          - `options` object — A map containing configuration options for the format
        - `schemaString` string — Schema of the table
        - `partitionColumns` string[] — An array containing the names of columns by which the data should be partitioned
  - `delta` DeltaResponse — Response for a query against a table in Delta format.
    - `entries` DeltaLogMessage[]
      - `protocol` ProtocolDelta — Protocol for Delta response.
        - `minReaderVersion` integer — The minimum version of the protocol that a client must implement in order to correctly read a Delta Lake table.
        - `minWriterVersion` integer
      - `metadata` MetadatDelta — Metadata for Delta response.
        - `deltaMetadata` Metadata — Metadata for a table
          - `id` string — Unique identifier for this table Validate GUID
          - `name` string — User-provided identifier for this table
          - `description` string — User-provided description for this table
          - `format` Format — File format for data files in a table
            - `provider` string — Name of the encoding for files in this table
            - `options` object — A map containing configuration options for the format
          - `schemaString` string — Schema of the table
          - `partitionColumns` string[] — An array containing the names of columns by which the data should be partitioned
          - `createdTime` string — The time when this metadata action is created, in milliseconds since the Unix epoch
          - `options` object — A map containing configuration options for the metadata action
        - `version` string — The table version the metadata corresponds to, returned when querying table data with a version or timestamp parameter, or cdf query with includeHistoricalMetadata set to true.
        - `size` string — The size of the table in bytes, will be returned if available in the delta log.
        - `numFiles` string — The number of files in the table, will be returned if available in the delta log.

## Other responses

- `default` — Default error response

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[API](https://skmtc.net/delta-incubator/apis/delta-sharing-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.net/delta-incubator/apis/delta-sharing-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc-service-staging.skmtc.workers.dev/v1/apis/delta-incubator/delta-sharing-api/revisions/a47a0389fffc/schema)