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CreateWebApp - AWS Transfer Family

CreateWebApp

Creates a web app based on specified parameters, and returns the ID for the new web app.

Request Syntax

{ "AccessEndpoint": "string", "IdentityProviderDetails": { ... }, "Tags": [ { "Key": "string", "Value": "string" } ], "WebAppUnits": { ... } }

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

AccessEndpoint

The AccessEndpoint is the URL that you provide to your users for them to interact with the Transfer Family web app. You can specify a custom URL or use the default value.

Before you enter a custom URL for this parameter, follow the steps described in Update your access endpoint with a custom URL.

Type: String

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

Required: No

IdentityProviderDetails

You can provide a structure that contains the details for the identity provider to use with your web app.

For more details about this parameter, see Configure your identity provider for Transfer Family web apps.

Type: WebAppIdentityProviderDetails object

Note: This object is a Union. Only one member of this object can be specified or returned.

Required: Yes

Tags

Key-value pairs that can be used to group and search for web apps.

Type: Array of Tag objects

Array Members: Minimum number of 1 item. Maximum number of 50 items.

Required: No

WebAppUnits

A union that contains the value for number of concurrent connections or the user sessions on your web app.

Type: WebAppUnits object

Note: This object is a Union. Only one member of this object can be specified or returned.

Required: No

Response Syntax

{ "WebAppId": "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.

WebAppId

Returns a unique identifier for the web app.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Fixed length of 24.

Pattern: webapp-[0-9a-f]{17}

Errors

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

AccessDeniedException

You do not have sufficient access to perform this action.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InternalServiceError

This exception is thrown when an error occurs in the AWS Transfer Family service.

HTTP Status Code: 500

InvalidRequestException

This exception is thrown when the client submits a malformed request.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

This exception is thrown when a resource is not found by the AWSTransfer Family service.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ThrottlingException

The request was denied due to request throttling.

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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