Merge pull request #695 from alanbernstein/docs-query-args

Docs query args
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alanbernstein 2017-06-28 17:37:38 -05:00 • committed by GitHub
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In order to send protobuf binaries in the request and response, set `Content-Type` and `Accept` headers to: `application/x-protobuf`.
The response doesn't include column attributes by default. To return them, set `columnAttrs` query argument to `true`.
The response doesn't include column attributes by default. To return them, set the `columnAttrs` query argument to `true`.
The query is executed for all [slices](../data-model#slice) by default. To use specified slices only, set the `slices` query argument to a comma-separated list of slice indices.
Request:
```
curl localhost:10101/index/user/query?columnAttrs=true \
curl "localhost:10101/index/user/query?columnAttrs=true&slices=0,1" \
-X POST \
-d 'Bitmap(frame="language", id=5)'
```

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### Slice
Indexes are sharded into groups of columns called Slices - each Slice contains a fixed number of columns which is the SliceWidth.
Indexes are sharded into groups of columns called Slices - each Slice contains a fixed number of columns which is the SliceWidth. SliceWidth is a non-configurable constant set to 2<sup>20</sup>.
Columns are sharded on a preset width, and each shard is referred to as a Slice. Slices are operated on in parallel, and they are evenly distributed across a cluster via a consistent hash algorithm.