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# Create a shard key

PUT http://localhost:6333/collections/{collection_name}/shards
Content-Type: application/json

Creates one or more shard keys for a specified collection.

Reference: https://api.qdrant.tech/api-reference/distributed/create-shard-key

## Authentication

- `api-key` header (required) — API Key authentication via header

## Servers

- `http://localhost:6333` (http, default)
- `https://localhost:6333` (https)

## Request

### Path parameters

- `collection_name` (string, required) — Name of the collection to create shards for

### Query parameters

- `timeout` (integer, optional) — Wait for operation commit timeout in seconds. If timeout is reached - request will return with service error.

### Body (application/json)

This endpoint expects a CreateShardingKey.

- `shard_key` (ShardKey, required)
- `shards_number` (uint, optional, nullable) — How many shards to create for this key If not specified, will use the default value from config
- `replication_factor` (uint, optional, nullable) — How many replicas to create for each shard If not specified, will use the default value from config
- `placement` (list of uint64, optional, nullable) — Placement of shards for this key List of peer ids, that can be used to place shards for this key If not specified, will be randomly placed among all peers

## Response

### 200

successful operation

- `time` (double, optional) — Time spent to process this request
- `status` (string, optional)
- `result` (boolean, optional)

## Types

### ShardKey

## Examples

**Request**

```json
{
  "shard_key": "string"
}
```

**Response**

```json
{
  "time": 1.1,
  "status": "string",
  "result": true
}
```

**SDK Code**

```rust
use qdrant_client::qdrant::shard_key::Key;
use qdrant_client::qdrant::{CreateShardKeyBuilder, CreateShardKeyRequestBuilder};
use qdrant_client::Qdrant;

let client = Qdrant::from_url("http://localhost:6334").build()?;

client
    .create_shard_key(
        CreateShardKeyRequestBuilder::new("{collection_name}").request(
            CreateShardKeyBuilder::default()
                .shard_key(Key::Keyword("{shard_key}".to_string())),
        ),
    )
    .await?;

```

```csharp
using Qdrant.Client;
using Qdrant.Client.Grpc;

var client = new QdrantClient("localhost", 6334);

await client.CreateShardKeyAsync(
    "{collection_name}",
    new CreateShardKey { ShardKey = new ShardKey { Keyword = "{shard_key}", } }
);

```

```java
import static io.qdrant.client.ShardKeyFactory.shardKey;

import io.qdrant.client.QdrantClient;
import io.qdrant.client.QdrantGrpcClient;

import io.qdrant.client.grpc.Collections.CreateShardKey;
import io.qdrant.client.grpc.Collections.CreateShardKeyRequest;

QdrantClient client = new QdrantClient(
                QdrantGrpcClient.newBuilder("localhost", 6334, false).build());

client.createShardKeyAsync(CreateShardKeyRequest.newBuilder()
                .setCollectionName("{collection_name}")
                .setRequest(CreateShardKey.newBuilder()
                                .setShardKey(shardKey("{shard_key}"))
                                .build())
                .build()).get();

```

```typescript
import { QdrantClient } from "@qdrant/js-client-rest";

const client = new QdrantClient({
    host: "localhost",
    port: 6333
});

client.createShardKey("{collection_name}", {
    shard_key: "{shard_key}"
});

```

```python
from qdrant_client import QdrantClient

client = QdrantClient(url="http://localhost:6333")

client.create_shard_key("{collection_name}", "{shard_key}")

```

```go
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "http://localhost:6333/collections/collection_name/shards"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"shard_key\": \"string\"\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("PUT", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("api-key", "<apiKey>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("http://localhost:6333/collections/collection_name/shards")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)

request = Net::HTTP::Put.new(url)
request["api-key"] = '<apiKey>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"shard_key\": \"string\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('PUT', 'http://localhost:6333/collections/collection_name/shards', [
  'body' => '{
  "shard_key": "string"
}',
  'headers' => [
    'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
    'api-key' => '<apiKey>',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = [
  "api-key": "<apiKey>",
  "Content-Type": "application/json"
]
let parameters = ["shard_key": "string"] as [String : Any]

let postData = JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: parameters, options: [])

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "http://localhost:6333/collections/collection_name/shards")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "PUT"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers
request.httpBody = postData as Data

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```