Validate pattern

POST

https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_identifier}/dlp/patterns/validate

Last modified:2022-12-16 13:48:32

Validates whether this pattern is a valid regular expression. Rejects it if the regular expression is too complex or can match an unbounded-length string. Your regex will be rejected if it uses the Kleene Star -- be sure to bound the maximum number of characters that can be matched.

Request

Path Params

account_identifier

string

required

Body Params application/json

A request to validate a pattern

regex

string

required

The regex pattern.

Example:

^4[0-9]{6,}$

Example

{
    "regex": "^4[0-9]{6,}$"
}

Request samples

Shell

JavaScript

Java

Swift

PHP

Python

HTTP

Objective-C

Ruby

OCaml

Dart

curl --location --request POST 'https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts//dlp/patterns/validate' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "regex": "^4[0-9]{6,}$"
}'

Responses

🟢200Validate pattern response

application/json

Body

allOf {2}

optional

object (api-response-single)

optional

errors

array [object {2}]

messages

required

Example:

[]

messages

array [object {2}]

messages

required

Example:

[]

result

required

success

enum<boolean>

required

Whether the API call was successful

Allowed value:

true

Example:

true

object

optional

result

object

optional

Example

{
    "errors": [],
    "messages": [],
    "result": {
        "valid": true
    },
    "success": true
}

🟢200Validate pattern response failure

Modified at 2022-12-16 13:48:32

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