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Elastic Compute Service:DescribeTasks

Last Updated:Aug 28, 2024

Queries the progress of one or more asynchronous requests.

Operation description

Debugging

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Authorization information

The following table shows the authorization information corresponding to the API. The authorization information can be used in the Action policy element to grant a RAM user or RAM role the permissions to call this API operation. Description:

  • Operation: the value that you can use in the Action element to specify the operation on a resource.
  • Access level: the access level of each operation. The levels are read, write, and list.
  • Resource type: the type of the resource on which you can authorize the RAM user or the RAM role to perform the operation. Take note of the following items:
    • The required resource types are displayed in bold characters.
    • If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level, All Resources is used in the Resource type column of the operation.
  • Condition Key: the condition key that is defined by the cloud service.
  • Associated operation: other operations that the RAM user or the RAM role must have permissions to perform to complete the operation. To complete the operation, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform the associated operations.
OperationAccess levelResource typeCondition keyAssociated operation
ecs:DescribeTasksget
  • All Resources
    *
    none
none

Request parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescriptionExample
PageNumberintegerNo

The number of the page to return.

Page start from page 1.

Default value: 1.

1
PageSizeintegerNo

The number of entries to return on each page.

Maximum value: 100.

Default value: 10.

10
RegionIdstringYes

The region ID of the task. You can call the DescribeRegions operation to query the most recent region list.

cn-hangzhou
TaskIdsstringNo

The ID of the task. You can specify up to 100 task IDs at a time. Separate the task IDs with commas (,).

t-bp1hvgwromzv32iq****,t-bp179lofu2pv768w****
TaskActionstringNo

The name of the operation that generates the task. Valid values:

  • ImportImage
  • ExportImage
  • RedeployInstance
  • ModifyDiskSpec
ImportImage
TaskStatusstringNo

The state of the task. Valid values:

  • Finished
  • Processing
  • Failed

This parameter is empty by default.

Note The system only retrieves tasks in the Finished, Processing, and Failed states and ignores other values.
Finished
StartTimestringNo

The start point of the time period for which to query created tasks. The time follows the ISO 8601 standard in the yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ format. The time is displayed in UTC.

2020-11-23T15:10:00Z
EndTimestringNo

The end point of the time period for which to query created tasks. The time follows the ISO 8601 standard in the yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ format. The time is displayed in UTC.

2020-11-23T15:16:00Z
ResourceIdsarrayNo

The ID of resource N that is associated with the task. Valid values of N: 1 to 100.

  • If TaskAction is set to ImportImage or ExportImage, set the resource ID to an image ID.
  • If TaskAction is set to RedeployInstance, set the resource ID to an Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance ID.
  • If TaskAction is set to ModifyDiskSpec, set the resource ID to a disk ID.
stringNo

The ID of resource N that is associated with the task. Valid values of N: 1 to 100.

  • If TaskAction is set to ImportImage or ExportImage, set the resource ID to an image ID.
  • If TaskAction is set to RedeployInstance, set the resource ID to an Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance ID.
  • If TaskAction is set to ModifyDiskSpec, set the resource ID to a disk ID.
m-bp1i8huqm5u7****

Response parameters

ParameterTypeDescriptionExample
object
PageSizeinteger

The number of entries returned per page.

10
PageNumberinteger

The page number of the returned page.

1
RequestIdstring

The ID of the request.

473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E
TotalCountinteger

The total number of entries returned.

1
RegionIdstring

The region ID of the task.

cn-hangzhou
TaskSetarray<object>

Details about the tasks.

object
CreationTimestring

The time when the task was created.

2020-11-24T12:50Z
TaskStatusstring

The state of the task.

Finished
FinishedTimestring

The time when the task was completed.

2020-11-24T12:50Z
SupportCancelstring

Indicates whether the task can be canceled.

true
TaskIdstring

The ID of the task.

t-bp1hvgwromzv32iq****
TaskActionstring

The name of the task.

ImportImage
ResourceIdstring

The ID of the resource.

m-bp1i8huqm5u7****

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "PageSize": 10,
  "PageNumber": 1,
  "RequestId": "473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E",
  "TotalCount": 1,
  "RegionId": "cn-hangzhou",
  "TaskSet": {
    "Task": [
      {
        "CreationTime": "2020-11-24T12:50Z",
        "TaskStatus": "Finished",
        "FinishedTime": "2020-11-24T12:50Z",
        "SupportCancel": "true",
        "TaskId": "t-bp1hvgwromzv32iq****",
        "TaskAction": "ImportImage",
        "ResourceId": "m-bp1i8huqm5u7****"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Error codes

HTTP status codeError codeError messageDescription
400MissingParameterAn input parameter "RegionId" that is mandatory for processing the request is not supplied.-
400InvalidRegionId.NotFoundThe specified RegionId does not exist.The specified region ID does not exist.

For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.