MySQL HTTP API

This HTTP server provides an HTTP-interface direct to a MySQL database. The main purpose for a server like this would be to allow clients to talk to a MySQL database using HTTP when native MySQL is unavailable.

Running/Installing

It's easy to run the HTTP server for this. Just clone the repo, install the dependencies and run the web server through bundler.

git clone https://github.com/adamcooke/mysql-api
cd mysql-api
bundle
bundle exec rackup

Bare in mind that the server that you install this on will need to be able to access the databases which you connecting to.

Using the API

Once the server is running you can send requests to it containing server credentials and the queries you want to execute. You should send the queries to the /query endpoint.

The body of your request should be JSON-formatted and the content type for the request must be application/json.

An example request looks like this:

{
  "host":"localhost",
  "username":"root",
  "password":"supersecretpassword",
  "database":"mydatabase",
  "queries":[
    {
      "name":"explain",
      "query":"EXPLAIN users;"
    },
    {
      "name":"total_count",
      "query":"SELECT COUNT(id) AS count FROM users;"
    },
    {
      "name":"records",
      "query":"SELECT * FROM users LIMIT 10;"
    },
    {
      "name":"prepared_query",
      "query":"SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = ? AND first_name = ?;"
      "values":["adamcooke", "Adam"]
    }
  ]
}

You can see from here we'll providing connection details plus an array of queries which we want to be executed with this database. You also provide a name which will be returned to you along with the result so you can easily map a query you sent to a result that you've received.

You will always receive a JSON response which will be a hash containing the results of all the queries which you have sent. Each query will contain details of the rows & columns which were returned.

{
  "explain":{
    "status":"ok",
    "size":3,
    "cols":["Field", "Type", "Null", "Key", "Default", "Extra"],
    "rows":[
      ["id", "int(11)", "NO", "PRI", null, "auto_increment"],
      ["username", "varchar(60)", "YES", "", null, ""],
      ["enabled", "tinyint(1)", "YES", "", null, ""]
    ]
  }
}

• status - this specifies that the query was successful
• size - the number of rows returned
• cols - the names of the columns which have been returned
• rows - every row which was returned as an array of values

Connection & Query Errors

There are two types of errors which you are likely to receive. The first is a connection error which means the credentials you have provided are not correct. This will be returned as a 403 Forbidden HTTP status with a body like this:

{
  "code": "connection-error",
  "message": "Unknown MySQL server host 'myserver.blah.com' (0)"
}

The code will always be connection-error and the message will be returned straight from the MySQL server. It may also be an access denied or unknown database message.

The other type of error you may find is an error in one of the queries which you submit. If a query generates an error the status attribute will be error and a message attribute will contain details. All other queries will be executed as normal even if one of the queries submitted with it fails.

{
  "status": "error",
  "message": "Table 'smi.potatos' doesn't exist"
}