How to programmatically get all MySQL data types?

I want to have a list of MySQL data types to use in my application.
Is there a query to do this (or any other way)?

Thanks in advance.

If you are using MySQL 5 -
select distinct data_type from information_schema.columns order by 1


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>I want to have a list of MySQL data types to use in my application.
> Is there a query to do this (or any other way)?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>