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DescribeGateway - AWS IoT SiteWise

DescribeGateway

Retrieves information about a gateway.

Request Syntax

GET /20200301/gateways/gatewayId HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

gatewayId

The ID of the gateway device.

Length Constraints: Fixed length of 36.

Pattern: ^[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12}$

Required: Yes

Request Body

The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax

HTTP/1.1 200 Content-type: application/json { "creationDate": number, "gatewayArn": "string", "gatewayCapabilitySummaries": [ { "capabilityNamespace": "string", "capabilitySyncStatus": "string" } ], "gatewayId": "string", "gatewayName": "string", "gatewayPlatform": { "greengrass": { "groupArn": "string" }, "greengrassV2": { "coreDeviceOperatingSystem": "string", "coreDeviceThingName": "string" }, "siemensIE": { "iotCoreThingName": "string" } }, "gatewayVersion": "string", "lastUpdateDate": number }

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.

creationDate

The date the gateway was created, in Unix epoch time.

Type: Timestamp

gatewayArn

The ARN of the gateway, which has the following format.

arn:${Partition}:iotsitewise:${Region}:${Account}:gateway/${GatewayId}

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1600.

Pattern: ^arn:aws(-cn|-us-gov)?:[a-zA-Z0-9-:\/_\.]+$

gatewayCapabilitySummaries

A list of gateway capability summaries that each contain a namespace and status. Each gateway capability defines data sources for the gateway. To retrieve a capability configuration's definition, use DescribeGatewayCapabilityConfiguration.

Type: Array of GatewayCapabilitySummary objects

gatewayId

The ID of the gateway device.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Fixed length of 36.

Pattern: ^[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12}$

gatewayName

The name of the gateway.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.

Pattern: [^\u0000-\u001F\u007F]+

gatewayPlatform

The gateway's platform.

Type: GatewayPlatform object

gatewayVersion

The version of the gateway. A value of 3 indicates an MQTT-enabled, V3 gateway, while 2 indicates a Classic streams, V2 gateway.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.

Pattern: ^[0-9]+$

lastUpdateDate

The date the gateway was last updated, in Unix epoch time.

Type: Timestamp

Errors

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

InternalFailureException

AWS IoT SiteWise can't process your request right now. Try again later.

HTTP Status Code: 500

InvalidRequestException

The request isn't valid. This can occur if your request contains malformed JSON or unsupported characters. Check your request and try again.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The requested resource can't be found.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ThrottlingException

Your request exceeded a rate limit. For example, you might have exceeded the number of AWS IoT SiteWise assets that can be created per second, the allowed number of messages per second, and so on.

For more information, see Quotas in the AWS IoT SiteWise User Guide.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also

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

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