---
title: "Get Column Meta"
url: https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/sdk/java/v1/cloud-scale/data-store/get-column-meta/
description: "This page describes the method to retrieve metadata of a single column or multiple columns from a table in the Data Store in your Java application with sample code snippets"
last_updated: 2025-11-19T15:07:41Z
service: Cloud Scale
type: general
related_links:
  - name: "Get Column Meta - API"
    url: /en/api/code-reference/cloud-scale/data-store/get-column-metadata/#GetColumnMetadata
  - name: "Data Store"
    url: /en/cloud-scale/help/data-store/introduction
---

# Get Column Meta

There are methods to retrieve the metadata of a single column or multiple columns of a particular table.

### Get a single column meta by columnID

while a table's meta data was fetched previously, now it is to fetch a particular column's meta data of a table using
`getColumn()` method.

#### Sample Code Snippet 

**Package Imports**

```java
import com.zc.component.object.ZCColumn; 
import com.zc.component.object.ZCObject; 
import com.zc.component.object.ZCTable; 
```

```java
//Create Base Object Instance 
ZCObject object = ZCObject.getInstance(); 
//Get a Table Instance referring the table ID on base object 
ZCTable table = object.getTable(1510000000110121L); 
//Get the Meta of a specific column of using columnID  
ZCColumn column = table.getColumn("1510000000110832");

```

### Get a single column meta by column name

An alternative way to get the meta data of a column is referring to the table name instead of table Id. This also
returns the same response as that of the previous one.

#### Sample Code Snippet 

**Package Imports**

```java
import com.zc.component.object.ZCColumn; 
import com.zc.component.object.ZCObject; 
import com.zc.component.object.ZCTable; 
```

```java
//Create Base Object Instance 
ZCObject object = ZCObject.getInstance(); 
//Get a Table Instance referring the table ID on base object 
ZCTable table = object.getTable(1510000000110121L); 
//Get the Meta of a specific column of using column name 
ZCColumn column = table.getColumn("Name");

```

### Get all the columns

In addition to getting the meta data of a single column, you can retrieve the meta data of all the columns of a
particular table using _getAllColumns()_ method.

#### Sample Code Snippet 

**Package Imports**

```java
import com.zc.component.object.ZCColumn; 
import com.zc.component.object.ZCObject; 
import com.zc.component.object.ZCTable; 
```

```java
//Create Base Object Instance 
ZCObject object = ZCObject.getInstance(); 
//Get a Table Instance referring the table ID on base object 
ZCTable table = object.getTable(1510000000110121L); 
//Get all the Columns in the Table 
List columns = table.getAllColumns();

```