Check Cloud Service Name Availability

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08/03/2016

The Check Hosted Service Name Availability operation checks for the availability of the specified cloud service name.

Request

The Check Hosted Service Name Availability request may be specified as follows. Replace <subscription-id> with your subscription ID and <cloudservice-name> with the cloud service name that you would like to use.

Method	Request URI
GET	https://management.core.windows.net/<subscription-id>/services/hostedservices/operations/isavailable/<cloudservice-name>

URI Parameters

None.

Request Headers

The following table describes the request headers.

Request Header	Description
x-ms-version	Required. Specifies the version of the operation to use for this request. This header should be set to 2012-03-01 or higher.

Request Body

None.

Response

The response includes an HTTP status code, a set of response headers, and a response body.

Status Code

A successful operation returns status code 200 (OK).

Response Headers

The response for this operation includes the following headers. The response may also include additional standard HTTP headers.

Response Header	Description
x-ms-request-id	A value that uniquely identifies a request made against the management service.

Response Body

The format of the response body is as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<AvailabilityResponse xmlns=”https://schemas.microsoft.com/windowsazure”>
  <Result>name-availability</Result>
  <Reason>reason</Reason>
</AvailabilityResponse>

The following table describes the elements in the response body.

Element name	Description
Result	A boolean value that indicates whether the name is available for you to use. true if the name is available; otherwise false. For versions before 2013-03-01, the operation returned true for non-taken names even if they were reserved or profane. With version headers of 2013-03-01 and later, the operation returns false for reserved or profane words.
Reason	Indicates why the name cannot be used to create the cloud service. Possible values are: HostedServiceAlreadyExists – returned if the cloud service name already exists. HostedServiceNameNotValid – returned if the cloud service name uses unsupported characters, reserved words, or profane words. The Reason element is only available using version 2013-03-01 or higher.

Result

A boolean value that indicates whether the name is available for you to use. true if the name is available; otherwise false.

For versions before 2013-03-01, the operation returned true for non-taken names even if they were reserved or profane. With version headers of 2013-03-01 and later, the operation returns false for reserved or profane words.

Reason

Indicates why the name cannot be used to create the cloud service.

Possible values are:

HostedServiceAlreadyExists – returned if the cloud service name already exists.
HostedServiceNameNotValid – returned if the cloud service name uses unsupported characters, reserved words, or profane words.

The Reason element is only available using version 2013-03-01 or higher.