Validate a DLP regex pattern

POST/accounts/{account_id}/dlp/patterns/validate

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. The regex will be rejected if it uses * or +. Bound the maximum number of characters that can be matched using a range, e.g. {1,100}.

Security

API Token

The preferred authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API. Create a token.

Example:Authorization: Bearer Sn3lZJTBX6kkg7OdcBUAxOO963GEIyGQqnFTOFYY

API Email + API Key

The previous authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API, used in conjunction with a Global API key.

Example:X-Auth-Email: user@example.com

The previous authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API. When possible, use API tokens instead of Global API keys.

Example:X-Auth-Key: 144c9defac04969c7bfad8efaa8ea194

Accepted Permissions (at least one required)

Zero Trust Write

Path ParametersExpand Collapse

account_id: string

Body ParametersJSONExpand Collapse

regex: string

max_match_bytes: optional number

Maximum number of bytes that the regular expression can match.

If this is null then there is no limit on the length. Patterns can use * and +. Otherwise repeats should use a range {m,n} to restrict patterns to the length. If this field is missing, then a default length limit is used.

Note that the length is specified in bytes. Since regular expressions use UTF-8 the pattern . can match up to 4 bytes. Hence .{1,256} has a maximum length of 1024 bytes.

formatint32

minimum0

ReturnsExpand Collapse

errors: array of { code, message, documentation_url, source }

code: number

minimum1000

message: string

documentation_url: optional string

source: optional { pointer }

pointer: optional string

messages: array of { code, message, documentation_url, source }

code: number

minimum1000

message: string

documentation_url: optional string

source: optional { pointer }

pointer: optional string

success: true

Whether the API call was successful.

result: optional { valid }

valid: boolean

Validate a DLP regex pattern

curl https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/$ACCOUNT_ID/dlp/patterns/validate \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN" \
    -d '{
          "regex": "regex"
        }'

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "messages": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "success": true,
  "result": {
    "valid": true
  }
}

Returns Examples

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "messages": [
    {
      "code": 1000,
      "message": "message",
      "documentation_url": "documentation_url",
      "source": {
        "pointer": "pointer"
      }
    }
  ],
  "success": true,
  "result": {
    "valid": true
  }
}