Services - Check Name Availability

Check name validity and availability
This method checks whether a proposed top-level resource name is valid and available.

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{subscriptionId}/providers/Microsoft.DataMigration/locations/{location}/checkNameAvailability?api-version=2022-03-30-preview

URI Parameters

Name In Required Type Description
location
path True

string

The Azure region of the operation

subscriptionId
path True

string

Subscription ID that identifies an Azure subscription.

api-version
query True

string

Version of the API

Request Body

Name Type Description
name

string

The proposed resource name

type

string

The resource type chain (e.g. virtualMachines/extensions)

Responses

Name Type Description
200 OK

NameAvailabilityResponse

Name checked

Other Status Codes

ApiError

Error

Security

azure_auth

Azure Active Directory OAuth2 Flow

Type: oauth2
Flow: implicit
Authorization URL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/authorize

Scopes

Name Description
user_impersonation impersonate your user account

Examples

Services_CheckNameAvailability

Sample Request

POST https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/fc04246f-04c5-437e-ac5e-206a19e7193f/providers/Microsoft.DataMigration/locations/eastus/checkNameAvailability?api-version=2022-03-30-preview

{
  "name": "DmsSdkService",
  "type": "services"
}

Sample Response

{
  "nameAvailable": true
}

Definitions

Name Description
ApiError

Error information.

createdByType
NameAvailabilityRequest

A resource type and proposed name

NameAvailabilityResponse

Indicates whether a proposed resource name is available

NameCheckFailureReason

The reason why the name is not available, if nameAvailable is false

ODataError

Error information in OData format.

SystemData

ApiError

Error information.

Name Type Description
error

ODataError

Error information in OData format

systemData

SystemData

Metadata pertaining to creation and last modification of the resource.

createdByType

Name Type Description
Application

string

Key

string

ManagedIdentity

string

User

string

NameAvailabilityRequest

A resource type and proposed name

Name Type Description
name

string

The proposed resource name

type

string

The resource type chain (e.g. virtualMachines/extensions)

NameAvailabilityResponse

Indicates whether a proposed resource name is available

Name Type Description
message

string

The localized reason why the name is not available, if nameAvailable is false

nameAvailable

boolean

If true, the name is valid and available. If false, 'reason' describes why not.

reason

NameCheckFailureReason

The reason why the name is not available, if nameAvailable is false

NameCheckFailureReason

The reason why the name is not available, if nameAvailable is false

Name Type Description
AlreadyExists

string

Invalid

string

ODataError

Error information in OData format.

Name Type Description
code

string

The machine-readable description of the error, such as 'InvalidRequest' or 'InternalServerError'

details

ODataError[]

Inner errors that caused this error

message

string

The human-readable description of the error

SystemData

Name Type Description
createdAt

string

createdBy

string

createdByType

createdByType

lastModifiedAt

string

lastModifiedBy

string

lastModifiedByType

createdByType