API equivalent to 'print count-only'

RouterOS Scripting
1

Hello,

What is API equivalent to ‘print count-only’ command?
E.g. I want to retrieve number of router user (‘/user/print count-only’)

TIA,

2 
/ip/address/print
=count-only=

specifically for user count

/user/print
=count-only=

remember, API is CLI equivalent, not winbox :slight_smile:

3

@janisk

Thanks a lot, some API syntax is still a big mystery for me :slight_smile:

Regards,

4

CLI directly translates to API, in winbox to make it more readable some features are places elsewhere.

so, in CLI same command looks like this:

/user print count-only

and it is coloured in certain way where you can rcognize, that /user is menu print is actual command you are running inside the menu and count-only is command attribute.

in API you place forward slash instead of space, so

/menu/command
=atribute=value

in this case, attribute has no meaningful value, so empty space can be used.

for example in CLI

/ip address add address=192.168.88.1/24 interface=ether1

results in:

/ip/address/add
=address=192.168.88.1/24
=interface=ether1

so skeleton of the API command is

/menu/menu/command
=attribute1=value
=attribute2=value2
5

@janisk
Thank you very much for this explanation, my life will be a little bit easier now :slight_smile:

Regards,