Updated on 2025-10-24 GMT+08:00

Creating a Database Role

Description

This API is used to create a database role for a specified instance.

Constraints

  • This API applies only to DDS Community Edition.
  • This operation is not allowed if the DB instance is in any of the following statuses: creating, changing instance class, changing port, frozen, restarting, or abnormal.

URI

  • URI format

    POST /v3/{project_id}/instances/{instance_id}/db-role

  • URI example

    https://dds.ap-southeast-1.myhuaweicloud.com/v3/0549b4a43100d4f32f51c01c2fe4acdb/instances/659914406d2c4c76bce6a028ce8d8e0din02/db-role

Table 1 Path parameters

Name

Mandatory

Type

IN

Description

project_id

Yes

string

path

Explanation:

Project ID of a tenant in a region. To obtain the project ID, see Obtaining a Project ID.

Constraints:

N/A

Value range:

N/A

Default value:

N/A

instance_id

Yes

string

path

Explanation:

Instance ID, which can be obtained by calling the API described in Querying Instances and Details. If you do not have an instance, call the API described in Creating a DB Instance to create one.

Constraints:

N/A

Value range:

N/A

Default value:

N/A

Request Parameters

Table 2 Request header parameters

Name

Mandatory

Type

IN

Description

X-Auth-Token

Yes

string

header

Definition

User token obtained from IAM. For details, see Authentication.

Constraints

N/A

Range

N/A

Default Value

N/A

Table 3 Parameter description

Name

Type

Mandatory

Description

role_name

String

Yes

The name of the role to be created.

The value must be 1 to 64 characters and can contain only letters (from A to Z or from a to z), digits (from 0 to 9), hyphens (-), and periods (.).

roles

Array of objects

No

The list of roles inherited by the new role. For details, see Table 4.

db_name

String

No

The name of the database to which the role belongs. The default value is admin.

The value must be 1 to 64 characters and can contain only letters (from A to Z or from a to z), digits (from 0 to 9), and underscores (_).

Table 4 roles field data structure description

Name

Type

Mandatory

Description

role_db_name

String

Yes

The name of the database to which an inherited role belongs.

The value must be 1 to 64 characters and can contain only letters (from A to Z or from a to z), digits (from 0 to 9), and underscores (_).

role_name

String

Yes

The name of an inherited role.

The value must be 1 to 64 characters and can contain only letters (from A to Z or from a to z), digits (from 0 to 9), hyphens (-), and periods (.).

Example Requests

Creating a database role testRole for a specified instance
{
    "role_name": "testRole",
    "roles" : [{
        "role_name":"readWrite",
        "role_db_name":"testDb" 
    }],
    "db_name":"testDb" 
}

Response Parameters

  • Example Responses
    {}

SDK

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Status Code

For more information, see Status Code.

Error Code

For more information, see Error Code.