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DescribeThingGroup - AWS IoT

DescribeThingGroup

Describe a thing group.

Requires permission to access the DescribeThingGroup action.

Request Syntax

GET /thing-groups/thingGroupName HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

thingGroupName

The name of the thing group.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: [a-zA-Z0-9:_-]+

Required: Yes

Request Body

The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax

HTTP/1.1 200 Content-type: application/json { "indexName": "string", "queryString": "string", "queryVersion": "string", "status": "string", "thingGroupArn": "string", "thingGroupId": "string", "thingGroupMetadata": { "creationDate": number, "parentGroupName": "string", "rootToParentThingGroups": [ { "groupArn": "string", "groupName": "string" } ] }, "thingGroupName": "string", "thingGroupProperties": { "attributePayload": { "attributes": { "string" : "string" }, "merge": boolean }, "thingGroupDescription": "string" }, "version": 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.

indexName

The dynamic thing group index name.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: [a-zA-Z0-9:_-]+

queryString

The dynamic thing group search query string.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1.

queryVersion

The dynamic thing group query version.

Type: String

status

The dynamic thing group status.

Type: String

Valid Values: ACTIVE | BUILDING | REBUILDING

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\-]+

thingGroupMetadata

Thing group metadata.

Type: ThingGroupMetadata object

thingGroupName

The name of the thing group.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: [a-zA-Z0-9:_-]+

thingGroupProperties

The thing group properties.

Type: ThingGroupProperties object

version

The version of the thing group.

Type: Long

Errors

InternalFailureException

An unexpected error has occurred.

HTTP Status Code: 500

InvalidRequestException

The request is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The specified resource does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

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:

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