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Querying Database and Table Information of an Instance

Function

This API is used to query database and table information of an instance. Before calling this API:

Calling Method

For details, see Calling APIs.

Authorization Information

Each account has all the permissions required to call all APIs, but IAM users must be assigned the required permissions.

  • If you are using role/policy-based authorization, see Permissions and Supported Actions for details on the required permissions.
  • If you are using identity policy-based authorization, the following identity policy-based permissions are required.

    Action

    Access Level

    Resource Type (*: required)

    Condition Key

    Alias

    Dependency

    gaussdbformysql:instance:get

    Read

    instance *

    • g:EnterpriseProjectId

    • g:ResourceTag/<tag-key>

    gaussdb:instance:list

    -

URI

GET /v3/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/table-info

Table 1 URI parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

project_id

Yes

String

Definition

Project ID of a tenant in a region.

To obtain this value, see Obtaining a Project ID.

Constraints

N/A

Range

The value contains 32 characters. Only letters and digits are allowed.

Default Value

N/A

instance_id

Yes

String

Definition

Instance ID, which uniquely identifies an instance.

Constraints

N/A

Range

The value contains 36 characters with a suffix of in07. Only letters and digits are allowed.

Default Value

N/A

Table 2 Query parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

database_name

No

String

Definition

Database name.

Constraints

N/A

Range

N/A

Default Value

N/A

table_name

No

String

Definition

Data table name.

Constraints

N/A

Range

N/A

Default Value

N/A

Request Parameters

Table 3 Request header parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

X-Auth-Token

Yes

String

Definition

User token. To obtain this value, call the IAM API for obtaining a user token.

The value of X-Subject-Token in the response header is the token value.

Constraints

N/A

Range

N/A

Default Value

N/A

X-Language

No

String

Definition

Request language type.

Constraints

N/A

Range

  • en-us

  • zh-cn

Default Value

en-us

Response Parameters

Status code: 200

Table 4 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

table_meta_infos

Array of TableMetaInfo objects

Definition

Database table metadata information.

table_names

Array of strings

Definition

Data table names.

database_names

Array of strings

Definition

Database names.

Table 5 TableMetaInfo

Parameter

Type

Description

column_type

String

Definition

Data type of a column.

Range

N/A

extra

String

Definition

Extra information, for example, whether the column is an auto-increment column.

Range

N/A

is_nullable

String

Definition

Whether the column data can be NULL.

Range

N/A

column_default

String

Definition

Default value of a column.

Range

N/A

column_key

String

Definition

Whether the column is an index column.

Range

N/A

column_name

String

Definition

Column name.

Range

N/A

Status code: 400

Table 6 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error code.

error_msg

String

Error message.

Status code: 500

Table 7 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error code.

error_msg

String

Error message.

Example Request

Querying database and table information of an instance

GET https://{endpoint}/v3/054e292c9880d4992f02c0196d3ea468/instances/406f16a73f3045a7aca3b9a9d5bf361cin07/table-info

Example Response

Status code: 200

Success.

{
  "table_meta_infos" : [ {
    "column_type" : "int unsigned",
    "extra" : "",
    "is_nullable" : "YES",
    "column_default" : "None",
    "column_key" : "",
    "column_name" : "age"
  }, {
    "column_type" : "int unsigned",
    "extra" : "",
    "is_nullable" : "NO",
    "column_default" : "None",
    "column_key" : "PRI",
    "column_name" : "id"
  }, {
    "column_type" : "tinyint(1)",
    "extra" : "",
    "is_nullable" : "YES",
    "column_default" : "None",
    "column_key" : "",
    "column_name" : "is_warhor"
  }, {
    "column_type" : "varchar(32)",
    "extra" : "",
    "is_nullable" : "YES",
    "column_default" : "None",
    "column_key" : "",
    "column_name" : "name"
  } ],
  "table_names" : [ ],
  "database_names" : [ ]
}

SDK Sample Code

The SDK sample code is as follows.

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package com.huaweicloud.sdk.test;

import com.huaweicloud.sdk.core.auth.ICredential;
import com.huaweicloud.sdk.core.auth.BasicCredentials;
import com.huaweicloud.sdk.core.exception.ConnectionException;
import com.huaweicloud.sdk.core.exception.RequestTimeoutException;
import com.huaweicloud.sdk.core.exception.ServiceResponseException;
import com.huaweicloud.sdk.gaussdb.v3.region.GaussDBRegion;
import com.huaweicloud.sdk.gaussdb.v3.*;
import com.huaweicloud.sdk.gaussdb.v3.model.*;


public class ShowTableMetaInfoSolution {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // The AK and SK used for authentication are hard-coded or stored in plaintext, which has great security risks. It is recommended that the AK and SK be stored in ciphertext in configuration files or environment variables and decrypted during use to ensure security.
        // In this example, AK and SK are stored in environment variables for authentication. Before running this example, set environment variables CLOUD_SDK_AK and CLOUD_SDK_SK in the local environment
        String ak = System.getenv("CLOUD_SDK_AK");
        String sk = System.getenv("CLOUD_SDK_SK");
        String projectId = "{project_id}";

        ICredential auth = new BasicCredentials()
                .withProjectId(projectId)
                .withAk(ak)
                .withSk(sk);

        GaussDBClient client = GaussDBClient.newBuilder()
                .withCredential(auth)
                .withRegion(GaussDBRegion.valueOf("<YOUR REGION>"))
                .build();
        ShowTableMetaInfoRequest request = new ShowTableMetaInfoRequest();
        request.withInstanceId("{instance_id}");
        try {
            ShowTableMetaInfoResponse response = client.showTableMetaInfo(request);
            System.out.println(response.toString());
        } catch (ConnectionException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (RequestTimeoutException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (ServiceResponseException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            System.out.println(e.getHttpStatusCode());
            System.out.println(e.getRequestId());
            System.out.println(e.getErrorCode());
            System.out.println(e.getErrorMsg());
        }
    }
}
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# coding: utf-8

import os
from huaweicloudsdkcore.auth.credentials import BasicCredentials
from huaweicloudsdkgaussdb.v3.region.gaussdb_region import GaussDBRegion
from huaweicloudsdkcore.exceptions import exceptions
from huaweicloudsdkgaussdb.v3 import *

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # The AK and SK used for authentication are hard-coded or stored in plaintext, which has great security risks. It is recommended that the AK and SK be stored in ciphertext in configuration files or environment variables and decrypted during use to ensure security.
    # In this example, AK and SK are stored in environment variables for authentication. Before running this example, set environment variables CLOUD_SDK_AK and CLOUD_SDK_SK in the local environment
    ak = os.environ["CLOUD_SDK_AK"]
    sk = os.environ["CLOUD_SDK_SK"]
    projectId = "{project_id}"

    credentials = BasicCredentials(ak, sk, projectId)

    client = GaussDBClient.new_builder() \
        .with_credentials(credentials) \
        .with_region(GaussDBRegion.value_of("<YOUR REGION>")) \
        .build()

    try:
        request = ShowTableMetaInfoRequest()
        request.instance_id = "{instance_id}"
        response = client.show_table_meta_info(request)
        print(response)
    except exceptions.ClientRequestException as e:
        print(e.status_code)
        print(e.request_id)
        print(e.error_code)
        print(e.error_msg)
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package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/huaweicloud/huaweicloud-sdk-go-v3/core/auth/basic"
    gaussdb "github.com/huaweicloud/huaweicloud-sdk-go-v3/services/gaussdb/v3"
	"github.com/huaweicloud/huaweicloud-sdk-go-v3/services/gaussdb/v3/model"
    region "github.com/huaweicloud/huaweicloud-sdk-go-v3/services/gaussdb/v3/region"
)

func main() {
    // The AK and SK used for authentication are hard-coded or stored in plaintext, which has great security risks. It is recommended that the AK and SK be stored in ciphertext in configuration files or environment variables and decrypted during use to ensure security.
    // In this example, AK and SK are stored in environment variables for authentication. Before running this example, set environment variables CLOUD_SDK_AK and CLOUD_SDK_SK in the local environment
    ak := os.Getenv("CLOUD_SDK_AK")
    sk := os.Getenv("CLOUD_SDK_SK")
    projectId := "{project_id}"

    auth := basic.NewCredentialsBuilder().
        WithAk(ak).
        WithSk(sk).
        WithProjectId(projectId).
        Build()

    client := gaussdb.NewGaussDBClient(
        gaussdb.GaussDBClientBuilder().
            WithRegion(region.ValueOf("<YOUR REGION>")).
            WithCredential(auth).
            Build())

    request := &model.ShowTableMetaInfoRequest{}
	request.InstanceId = "{instance_id}"
	response, err := client.ShowTableMetaInfo(request)
	if err == nil {
        fmt.Printf("%+v\n", response)
    } else {
        fmt.Println(err)
    }
}

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Status Code

For details, see Status Codes.

Error Code

For details, see Error Codes.