UAPI Functions - Mysql::get_restrictions

Description

This function lists a MySQL® database's name, username length restrictions, and database prefix.

Examples 


 cPanel or Webmail Session URL

https://hostname.example.com:2083/cpsess##########/execute/Mysql/get_restrictions

 LiveAPI PHP Class

$cpanel new CPANEL(); // Connect to cPanel - only do this once.
  
// List the current MySQL database restrictions.
$get_db_restrictions $cpanel->uapi(
    'Mysql''get_restrictions'
);

 LiveAPI Perl Module

my $cpliveapi = Cpanel::LiveAPI->new(); # Connect to cPanel - only do this once.
  
# List the current MySQL database restrictions.
my $get_db_restrictions $cpliveapi->uapi(
    'Mysql''get_restrictions',
);

 cPanel Template Toolkit

<!-- Get a hash of all the data, then display the prefix value. -->
[% data = execute( 'Mysql', 'get_restrictions' ); %]
[% FOREACH q = data.prefix %]
     <p>
         [% q %]
     </p>
[% END %]
  
<!-- Get only a hash of the data. -->
[% execute('Mysql', 'get_restrictions' ).data.prefix %]

 Command Line

uapi --user=username Mysql get_restrictions

 

Notes:

  • You must URI-encode values.
  • username represents your account-level username.

 Output (JSON)

   "messages":null,
   "errors":null,
   "status":1,
   "metadata":{ 
 
   },
   "data":{ 
      "max_database_name_length":64,
      "max_username_length":16,
      "prefix":"user_"
   }
}

 

Note:

Use cPanel's API Shell interface (Home >> Advanced >> API Shell) to directly test cPanel API calls.

 

Parameters

This function does not accept parameters.

Returns

Return

Type

Description

Possible values

 Example 

 max_database_name_length 

 integer 

The maximum length of a MySQL database name.

A positive integer that represents the number of characters that a MySQL database name can contain.

64

max_username_length

integer

The maximum length of a MySQL database user's name.

A positive integer that represents the number of characters that a MySQL database user's name can contain.

16

prefix

string

 The account's database prefix, if database prefixing is enabled.

  • If database prefixing is enabled, a string of up to the first eight characters of the cPanel account username, and an underscore (_). 
  • If database prefixing is disabled, this return's value displays as undefined.

user_

 

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