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Querying Instance Specifications That Can Be Changed

Function

This API is used to query instance specifications that can be changed.

Constraints

This API supports the following instances:

  • GeminiDB Cassandra
  • GeminiDB Mongo
  • GeminiDB Influx
  • GeminiDB Redis

Authorization Information

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

  • If you are using role/policy-based authorization, see the required permissions in Permissions and Supported Actions.
  • 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

    Dependencies

    gaussdbfornosql:instance:listFlavors

    List

    -

    -

    nosql:instance:list

    -

URI

GET /v3/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/available-flavors

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. To obtain the value, call the Querying Instances and Details API. If no instance is available, call the Creating an Instance API to create one.

Constraints

N/A

Range

N/A

Default Value

N/A

Table 2 Query parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

offset

No

Integer

Definition

Index position. The query starts from the next piece of data indexed by this parameter.

Constraints

N/A

Range

The value must be greater than or equal to 0.

Default Value

0

limit

No

Integer

Definition

Maximum records to be queried

Constraints

N/A

Range

1 to 100

Default Value

100

Request Parameters

Table 3 Request header parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

X-Auth-Token

Yes

String

Definition

User token

You can obtain the token by calling the IAM API by following Obtaining a User Token Through Password Authentication.

Constraints

N/A

Range

N/A

Default Value

N/A

Response Parameters

Status code: 200

Table 4 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

instance_id

String

Definition

Instance ID.

Range

N/A

instance_name

String

Definition

Instance name

Range

N/A

current_flavor

ComputeFlavor object

Definition

Instance specifications.

optional_flavors

OptionalFlavorsInfo object

Definition

Available specification options that the instance specifications can be changed to.

Table 5 ComputeFlavor

Parameter

Type

Description

vcpus

String

Definition

Number of vCPUs.

Range

N/A

ram

String

Definition

Memory size in GB

Range

N/A

spec_code

String

Definition

Specification code

Range

N/A

az_status

Map<String,String>

Definition

AZ status in the key:value format. key indicates the AZ code. value can be:

  • normal: available for general use
  • abandon: offline
  • sellout: sold-out
  • unknown: unavailable

region_status

String

Definition

Region status

Range

  • normal: available for general use
  • abandon: offline
  • sellout: sold-out
NOTE:

This parameter has been deprecated and does not take effect. Ignore and do not use it.

Table 6 OptionalFlavorsInfo

Parameter

Type

Description

list

Array of objects in ComputeFlavor

Definition

Available specification options

total_count

Integer

Definition

Total number of records.

Range

N/A

Example Requests

URI example
GET https://{Endpoint}/v3/0549b4a43100d4f32f51c01c2fe4acdb/instances/094424666ef04f79a2dfbe9f5b8b31a5in06/available-flavors

Example Responses

Status code: 200

Success
{ 
  "instance_id" : "094424666ef04f79a2dfbe9f5b8b31a5in06", 
  "instance_name" : "geminidb_instance_noreuse_0_ZKv2FSkxgoc3F8bGzsaxNg", 
  "current_flavor" : { 
    "vcpus" : "4", 
    "ram" : "16", 
    "spec_code" : "geminidb.cassandra.xlarge.4", 
    "az_status" : { 
      "az2***" : "unknown", 
      "az1***" : "normal", 
      "az3***" : "unknown" 
    }, 
    "region_status" : null 
  }, 
  "optional_flavors" : {
    "list" : [ { 
      "vcpus" : "2", 
      "ram" : "8", 
      "spec_code" : "geminidb.cassandra.large.4", 
      "az_status" : { 
        "az2***" : "unknown", 
        "az1***" : "normal", 
        "az4***" : "normal", 
        "az3***" : "unknown" 
      }, 
      "region_status" : "normal" 
    }, { 
      "vcpus" : "8", 
      "ram" : "32", 
      "spec_code" : "geminidb.cassandra.2xlarge.4", 
      "az_status" : { 
        "az2***" : "unknown", 
        "az1***" : "normal", 
        "az3***" : "unknown" 
      }, 
      "region_status" : "normal" 
    }, { 
      "vcpus" : "16", 
      "ram" : "64", 
      "spec_code" : "geminidb.cassandra.4xlarge.4", 
      "az_status" : { 
        "az2***" : "unknown", 
        "az1***" : "normal", 
        "az3***" : "unknown" 
      }, 
      "region_status" : "normal" 
    }, { 
      "vcpus" : "32", 
      "ram" : "128", 
      "spec_code" : "geminidb.cassandra.8xlarge.4", 
      "az_status" : { 
        "az2***" : "unknown", 
        "az1***" : "normal", 
        "az3***" : "unknown" 
      }, 
      "region_status" : "normal" 
    } ], 
    "total_count": 4
  }
}

Status Codes

For details, see Status Codes.

Error Codes

For details, see Error Codes.