# UpdateRepositoryDescription
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Sets or changes the comment or description for a repository.

**Note**  
The description field for a repository accepts all HTML characters and all valid Unicode characters. Applications that do not HTML-encode the description and display it in a webpage can expose users to potentially malicious code. Make sure that you HTML-encode the description field in any application that uses this API to display the repository description on a webpage.

## Request Syntax
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```
{
   "repositoryDescription": "string",
   "repositoryName": "string"
}
```

## Request Parameters
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For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see [Common Parameters](CommonParameters.md).

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

 ** [repositoryDescription](#API_UpdateRepositoryDescription_RequestSyntax) **   <a name="CodeCommit-UpdateRepositoryDescription-request-repositoryDescription"></a>
The new comment or description for the specified repository. Repository descriptions are limited to 1,000 characters.  
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Maximum length of 1000.  
Required: No

 ** [repositoryName](#API_UpdateRepositoryDescription_RequestSyntax) **   <a name="CodeCommit-UpdateRepositoryDescription-request-repositoryName"></a>
The name of the repository to set or change the comment or description for.  
Type: String  
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 100.  
Pattern: `[\w\.-]+`   
Required: Yes

## Response Elements
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If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response with an empty HTTP body.

## Errors
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For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see [Common Error Types](CommonErrors.md).

 ** EncryptionIntegrityChecksFailedException **   
An encryption integrity check failed.  
HTTP Status Code: 500

 ** EncryptionKeyAccessDeniedException **   
An encryption key could not be accessed.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** EncryptionKeyDisabledException **   
The encryption key is disabled.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** EncryptionKeyNotFoundException **   
No encryption key was found.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** EncryptionKeyUnavailableException **   
The encryption key is not available.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** InvalidRepositoryDescriptionException **   
The specified repository description is not valid.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** InvalidRepositoryNameException **   
A specified repository name is not valid.  
This exception occurs only when a specified repository name is not valid. Other exceptions occur when a required repository parameter is missing, or when a specified repository does not exist.
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** RepositoryDoesNotExistException **   
The specified repository does not exist.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

 ** RepositoryNameRequiredException **   
A repository name is required, but was not specified.  
HTTP Status Code: 400

## Examples
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### Example
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This example illustrates one usage of UpdateRepositoryDescription.

#### Sample Request
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```
POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: codecommit.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
Accept-Encoding: identity
Content-Length: 90
X-Amz-Target: CodeCommit_20150413.UpdateRepositoryDescription
X-Amz-Date: 20151029T153247Z
User-Agent: aws-cli/1.7.38 Python/2.7.9 Windows/7
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=AKIAI44QH8DHBEXAMPLE/20151029/us-east-1/codecommit/aws4_request, SignedHeaders=content-type;host;user-agent;x-amz-date;x-amz-target, Signature=8d9b5998EXAMPLE

{
  "repositoryName": "MyDemoRepo", 
  "repositoryDescription": "This description was changed"
}
```

#### Sample Response
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```
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-amzn-RequestId: 0728aaa8-EXAMPLE
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
Content-Length: 0
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 15:32:49 GMT
```

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
+  [AWS Command Line Interface V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/cli2/codecommit-2015-04-13/UpdateRepositoryDescription) 
+  [AWS SDK for .NET V4](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/DotNetSDKV4/codecommit-2015-04-13/UpdateRepositoryDescription) 
+  [AWS SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/codecommit-2015-04-13/UpdateRepositoryDescription) 
+  [AWS SDK for Go v2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForGoV2/codecommit-2015-04-13/UpdateRepositoryDescription) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/codecommit-2015-04-13/UpdateRepositoryDescription) 
+  [AWS SDK for JavaScript V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaScriptV3/codecommit-2015-04-13/UpdateRepositoryDescription) 
+  [AWS SDK for Kotlin](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForKotlin/codecommit-2015-04-13/UpdateRepositoryDescription) 
+  [AWS SDK for PHP V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForPHPV3/codecommit-2015-04-13/UpdateRepositoryDescription) 
+  [AWS SDK for Python](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/boto3/codecommit-2015-04-13/UpdateRepositoryDescription) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/codecommit-2015-04-13/UpdateRepositoryDescription)