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## Using multiGet()

`TableAPI.multiGet()` allows you to retrieve multiple rows at once, so long as they all share the same shard keys. You must specify a full set of shard keys to this method.

Use `TableAPI.multiGet()` only if your retrieval set will fit entirely in memory.

For example, suppose you have a table that stores information about products, which is designed like this:

    CREATE TABLE myTable (
        itemType STRING,
        itemCategory STRING,
        itemClass STRING,
        itemColor STRING,
        itemSize STRING,
        price FLOAT,
        inventoryCount INTEGER,
        PRIMARY KEY (SHARD(itemType, itemCategory, itemClass), itemColor,
        itemSize)
    )

With tables containing data like this:

- Row 1:

  - itemType: Hats

  - itemCategory: baseball

  - itemClass: longbill

  - itemColor: red

  - itemSize: small

  - price: 12.07

  - inventoryCount: 127

- Row 2:

  - itemType: Hats

  - itemCategory: baseball

  - itemClass: longbill

  - itemColor: red

  - itemSize: medium

  - price: 13.07

  - inventoryCount: 201

- Row 3:

  - itemType: Hats

  - itemCategory: baseball

  - itemClass: longbill

  - itemColor: red

  - itemSize: large

  - price: 14.07

  - inventoryCount: 39

In this case, you can retrieve all of the rows with their `itemType` field set to `Hats` and their `itemCategory` field set to `baseball`. Notice that this represents a partial primary key, because `itemClass`, `itemColor` and `itemSize` are not used for this query.

    package kvstore.basicExample;

    ...

    import java.util.List;
    import java.util.Iterator;
    import oracle.kv.ConsistencyException;
    import oracle.kv.KVStore;
    import oracle.kv.RequestTimeoutException;
    import oracle.kv.table.PrimaryKey;
    import oracle.kv.table.Row;
    import oracle.kv.table.Table;
    import oracle.kv.table.TableAPI;

    ...

    // KVStore handle creation is omitted for brevity

    ...

    TableAPI tableH = kvstore.getTableAPI();

    // The name you give to getTable() must be identical
    // to the name that you gave the table when you created
    // the table using the CREATE TABLE DDL statement.
    Table myTable = tableH.getTable("myTable");

    // Construct the PrimaryKey. In this case, we are
    // using a partial primary key.
    PrimaryKey key = myTable.createPrimaryKey();
    key.put("itemType", "Hats");
    key.put("itemCategory", "baseball");
    key.put("itemClass", "longbill");

    List<Row> myRows = null;

    try {
        myRows = tableH.multiGet(key, null, null);
    } catch (ConsistencyException ce) {
        // The consistency guarantee was not met
    } catch (RequestTimeoutException re) {
        // The operation was not completed within the
        // timeout value
    }

You can then iterate over the resulting list as follows:

    for (Row theRow: myRows) {
        String itemType = theRow.get("itemType").asString().get();
        String itemCategory = theRow.get("itemCategory").asString().get();
        String itemClass = theRow.get("itemClass").asString().get();
        String itemColor = theRow.get("itemColor").asString().get();
        String itemSize = theRow.get("itemSize").asString().get();
        Float price = theRow.get("price").asFloat().get();
        Integer price = theRow.get("itemCount").asInteger().get();
    }