Create a thing group.
Note
This is a control plane operation. See Authorization for information about authorizing control plane actions.
If the ThingGroup that you create has the exact same attributes as an existing
ThingGroup, you will get a 200 success response.
Requires permission to access the CreateThingGroup action.
Request Syntax
POST /thing-groups/thingGroupName HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json
{
"parentGroupName": "string",
"tags": [
{
"Key": "string",
"Value": "string"
}
],
"thingGroupProperties": {
"attributePayload": {
"attributes": {
"string" : "string"
},
"merge": boolean
},
"thingGroupDescription": "string"
}
}URI Request Parameters
The request uses the following URI parameters.
- thingGroupName
-
The thing group name to create.
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.
Pattern:
[a-zA-Z0-9:_-]+Required: Yes
Request Body
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.
- parentGroupName
-
The name of the parent thing group.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.
Pattern:
[a-zA-Z0-9:_-]+Required: No
-
Metadata which can be used to manage the thing group.
Type: Array of Tag objects
Required: No
- thingGroupProperties
-
The thing group properties.
Type: ThingGroupProperties object
Required: No
Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json
{
"thingGroupArn": "string",
"thingGroupId": "string",
"thingGroupName": "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.
- thingGroupArn
-
The thing group ARN.
Type: String
- thingGroupId
-
The thing group ID.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.
Pattern:
[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+ - thingGroupName
-
The thing group name.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.
Pattern:
[a-zA-Z0-9:_-]+
Errors
- InternalFailureException
-
An unexpected error has occurred.
HTTP Status Code: 500
- InvalidRequestException
-
The request is not valid.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- ResourceAlreadyExistsException
-
The resource already exists.
HTTP Status Code: 409
- ThrottlingException
-
The rate exceeds the limit.
HTTP Status Code: 400
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
