Description of problem:

When executing the activationkey.create apis, if the user provides a value for the "key" parameter that is too long, a DB exception is returned to the user; however, if the same were done from he UI, the user gets a more user friendly error (e.g. "Key cannot be greater than 45 characters.").

The API needs to be updated to perform the same validations that the UI currently provides and return the user with a more useful error message.

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How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. execute activationkey.create() api with key greater than 45 characters
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Actual results:
java.sql.SQLException exception generated (viewable in /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out)

Expected results:
user friendly error/exception generated and thrown to user

Additional info: