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UpdateApplication - AWS AppConfig

UpdateApplication

Updates an application.

Request Syntax

PATCH /applications/ApplicationId HTTP/1.1 Content-type: application/json { "Description": "string", "Name": "string" }

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

ApplicationId

The application ID.

Pattern: [a-z0-9]{4,7}

Required: Yes

Request Body

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

Description

A description of the application.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 1024.

Required: No

Name

The name of the application.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 64.

Required: No

Response Syntax

HTTP/1.1 200 Content-type: application/json { "Description": "string", "Id": "string", "Name": "string" }

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

Description

The description of the application.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 1024.

Id

The application ID.

Type: String

Pattern: [a-z0-9]{4,7}

Name

The application name.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 64.

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

BadRequestException

The input fails to satisfy the constraints specified by an AWS service.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InternalServerException

There was an internal failure in the AWS AppConfig service.

HTTP Status Code: 500

ResourceNotFoundException

The requested resource could not be found.

HTTP Status Code: 404

Examples

Example

This example illustrates one usage of UpdateApplication.

Sample Request

PATCH /applications/abc1234 HTTP/1.1 Host: appconfig.us-east-1.amazonaws.com Accept-Encoding: identity User-Agent: aws-cli/2.2.4 Python/3.8.8 Linux/5.4.134-73.228.amzn2int.x86_64 exe/x86_64.amzn.2 prompt/off command/appconfig.update-application X-Amz-Date: 20210920T212018Z Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE/20210920/us-east-1/appconfig/aws4_request, SignedHeaders=host;x-amz-date, Signature=39c3b3042cd2aEXAMPLE Content-Length: 31 { "Name": "Example-Application" }

Sample Response

{ "Id": "abc1234", "Name": "Example-Application", "Description": "An application used for creating an example." }

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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