Queries the information about a specific category and its subcategories based on the ID or type of the category.
Debugging
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 Resourcesis 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.
| Operation | Access level | Resource type | Condition key | Associated operation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vod:GetCategories | list | *All Resources * |
| none |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CateId | long | No | The ID of the category. If you specify this parameter, the system queries the category based on the ID. You can specify only one category ID. You can use one of the following methods to obtain the ID:
| 49339**** |
| PageNo | long | No | The number of the page where the subcategories to be returned are listed. Default value: 1. | 1 |
| PageSize | long | No | The number of entries to return on each page of the subcategory list. Default value: 10. Maximum value: 100. | 10 |
| SortBy | string | No | The sorting method of the results. Valid values:
| CreationTime:Desc |
| Type | string | No | The type of the category. If you specify this parameter, the system queries the category based on the type. Valid values:
| default |
Response parameters
Examples
Sample success responses
JSONformat
{
"SubTotal": 3795,
"RequestId": "25818875-5F78-4AF6-D7393642CA58****",
"Category": {
"Type": "default",
"ParentId": 0,
"CateName": "film",
"CateId": 100,
"Level": 0
},
"SubCategories": {
"Category": [
{
"Type": "default",
"CateName": "film",
"ParentId": 0,
"CateId": 100,
"SubTotal": 1,
"Level": 1
}
]
}
}Error codes
For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.