box.space._space

box.space._space

_space is a system space. It contains all spaces hosted on the current Tarantool instance, both system ones and created by users.

Tuples in this space contain the following fields:

• id,
• owner (= id of user who owns the space),
• name, engine, field_count,
• flags (e.g. temporary),
• format (as made by a format clause).

These fields are established by space.create().

Example #1:

The following function will display every simple field in all tuples of _space.

function example()
  local ta = {}
  local i, line
  for k, v in box.space._space:pairs() do
    i = 1
    line = ''
    while i <= #v do
      if type(v[i]) ~= 'table' then
        line = line .. v[i] .. ' '
      end
    i = i + 1
    end
    table.insert(ta, line)
  end
  return ta
end

Here is what example() returns in a typical installation:

tarantool> example()
---
- - '272 1 _schema memtx 0  '
  - '280 1 _space memtx 0  '
  - '281 1 _vspace sysview 0  '
  - '288 1 _index memtx 0  '
  - '296 1 _func memtx 0  '
  - '304 1 _user memtx 0  '
  - '305 1 _vuser sysview 0  '
  - '312 1 _priv memtx 0  '
  - '313 1 _vpriv sysview 0  '
  - '320 1 _cluster memtx 0  '
  - '512 1 tester memtx 0  '
  - '513 1 origin vinyl 0  '
  - '514 1 archive memtx 0  '
...

Example #2:

The following requests will create a space using box.schema.space.create() with a format clause, then retrieve the _space tuple for the new space. This illustrates the typical use of the format clause, it shows the recommended names and data types for the fields.

tarantool> box.schema.space.create('TM', {
         >   id = 12345,
         >   format = {
         >     [1] = {["name"] = "field_1"},
         >     [2] = {["type"] = "unsigned"}
         >   }
         > })
---
- index: []
  on_replace: 'function: 0x41c67338'
  temporary: false
  id: 12345
  engine: memtx
  enabled: false
  name: TM
  field_count: 0
- created
...
tarantool> box.space._space:select(12345)
---
- - [12345, 1, 'TM', 'memtx', 0, {}, [{'name': 'field_1'}, {'type': 'unsigned'}]]
...