WHM API 1 Sort Output

Overview

You can use additional variables to sort WHM API 1 output.

Notes:

You can test WHM API 1 functions in WHM's API Shell interface (Home >> Development >> API Shell). Click Show Sort/Filter/Paginate Options to display the additional text boxes.

Sort output

WHM API 1 sorting uses four basic variables:

api.sort.enable

Description: Whether to enable sorting.

Type: Boolean

Possible values:

• 1 - Enable sorting.
• 0 - Disable sorting.

api.sort.a.field

Description: The return to sort by.

Type: string

Possible values:

The name of one of the function's returns.

api.sort.a.method

Description: The type of sorting to use. This variable defaults to lexicographic.

Warning:

You must set this parameter whenever you sort numeric values, or the function will fail.

Type: string

Possible values:

• ipv4 - Sort output by the numeric value of each octet in an IPv4 address.
• numeric - Sort output in numeric order, with 0 as the lowest number.
• numeric_zero_as_max - Sort output in numeric order, with 0 as the highest number.
• lexicographic - Sort output in alphabetical order.

api.sort.a.reverse

Description: Whether to sort data in reverse order. This parameter defaults to 0.

Type: Boolean

Possible values:

• 1 - Sort in reverse order.
• 0 - Do not sort in reverse order.

Examples

The following example function calls execute the listaccts function and sort the output by the user parameter:

JSON API

/json-api/listaccts?api.version=1&api.sort.a.field=user&api.sort.enable=1

Command Line

whmapi1 listsuspended api.sort.enable=1 api.sort.a.field=owner

Use multiple sort parameters

To sort output by multiple parameters in a single WHM API 1 call, increment the letter in each filter variable.

For example, use the following variables to pass two sets of sort information:

• Pass the first set of sort information to the api.sort.a.field , api.sort.a.method , and api.sort.a.reverse variables.
• Pass the second set of sort information to the api.sort.b.field , api.sort.b.method , and api.sort.b.reverse variables.

Notes:

• Do not include more than one api.sort.enable Boolean variable.
• The order of sort parameters determines the order in which WHM API 1 uses them to sort output. For example, the system applies the sort criteria from the api.sort.a.field parameter before it applies the criteria from the api.sort.b.field parameter.

Examples

The following example function calls execute the listsuspended function and sort the results by the owner parameter's value, and then by the user parameter's value:

JSON API

/json-api/listsuspended?api.version=1&api.sort.a.field=owner&api.sort.b.field=user&api.sort.enable=1

Command Line

whmapi1 listsuspended api.sort.enable=1 api.sort.a.field=owner api.sort.b.field=user