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Distinct (generated API)

Lists the distinct values of a column, or the distinct combinations of several, sorted the way you ask.
Method GET
URL /api/gen/admin/mysql8/inventory/customers/distinct/:field[/:order]
Body none
Query params find
Answer data : an array of objects, one per distinct value or combination
Databases MongoDB, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, TiDB, Percona
Cached yes, with enableCaching on the table
From code g.sys.db.gen.distinctGen
API id GEN_GET_DISTINCT (groups, settings, hooks, WebSocket subscriptions)
The other family Distinct as a schema API

Schemaless : the data passes as it is

The generated APIs never read the schema of the table. Nothing is converted, validated, defaulted, encrypted or numbered : what you send is what the database gets, and a filter matches the type you send ("22" does not match the number 22). On MongoDB, strings which look like ObjectIds are converted. Every table has these APIs, with or without a schema ; the same operations under /api/schema apply the schema.

The URL

/api/gen/admin/mysql8/inventory/customers/distinct/:field[/:order] : replace admin with the user path of your account, mysql8 with your instance, inventory with the database and customers with the table. The examples use this table :

customer_id first_name last_name last_update pincode isActive
1 Bob lin 2022-11-14 04: 34: 58 382345 1
2 Alice Page 2022-10-15 02: 10: 40 382346 1
3 Mallory Brown 2022-09-13 03: 44: 05 382347 1
4 Eve Mathly 2022-11-12 01: 59: 33 382348 1
5 Eve Page 2022-11-12 01: 59: 33 382349 1

One column

GET /api/gen/admin/mysql8/inventory/customers/distinct/pincode

{ "success": true, "statusCode": 200, "data": [ { "pincode": 382345 }, { "pincode": 382346 }, { "pincode": 382347 } ] }
  • Ascending by default. Descending : /api/gen/admin/mysql8/inventory/customers/distinct/pincode/desc (also -1, dsc, 0, false ; ascending is asc, 1, true).

Several columns

GET /api/gen/admin/mysql8/inventory/customers/distinct/first_name,pincode
GET /api/gen/admin/mysql8/inventory/customers/distinct/first_name,pincode/asc,desc

{ "success": true, "statusCode": 200, "data": [ { "first_name": "Alice", "pincode": 382346 }, { "first_name": "Bob", "pincode": 382345 }, { "first_name": "Eve", "pincode": 382349 }, { "first_name": "Eve", "pincode": 382348 } ] }
  • One order per column, in the same position. A missing order is ascending.

With a filter

GET /api/gen/admin/mysql8/inventory/customers/distinct/pincode?find={isActive:1}

Good to know

  • A column which is empty everywhere gives [].
  • Field permissions apply : a column the group can not read can not be listed.

From your code

g.sys.db.gen.distinctGen makes the same call from custom APIs, hooks, events, schedulers and test cases, with the same headers and params. Pass true as the second argument to get the whole response envelope instead of data.

Headers

Every call takes the request headers : the tokens, x-am-response-case, x-am-content-type-response (JSON, XML, YAML…), x-am-response-object-type: make_flat, x-am-cache-control, x-am-get-encrypted-data, x-am-internationalization, x-am-tenant-username, x-am-meta.

Errors

Code When
401 The token in x-am-authorization is missing or invalid.
403 No group of the API user grants this API of this table, or a field of the request.
404 The instance, database or table of the URL does not exist.
400 The query or the body is wrong : the error messages say which key and why.