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Creating a Route Table

Function

This API is used to create a route table. A route table is the basis for an enterprise router to send and receive packets. It contains attachment associations, propagations, and routes.

Calling Method

For details, see Calling APIs.

Authorization Information

Each account root user has all the permissions required to call all APIs, but IAM users must be assigned the following required identity policy-based permissions. For details about the required permissions, see Permissions Policies and Supported Actions.

Action	Access Level	Resource Type (*: required)	Condition Key	Alias	Dependencies
er:routeTables:create	Write	routeTables *	-	-	-
		instances *	g:EnterpriseProjectId g:ResourceTag/<tag-key>
		-	g:RequestTag/<tag-key> g:TagKeys

URI

POST /v3/{project_id}/enterprise-router/{er_id}/route-tables

**Table 1** Path Parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
project_id	Yes	String	Project ID
er_id	Yes	String	Enterprise router ID

Request Parameters

**Table 2** Request header parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
X-Client-Token	No	String	Idempotence identifier Minimum: 1 Maximum: 64

**Table 3** Request body parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
route_table	No	CreateRouteTable object	Route table

**Table 4** CreateRouteTable
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
name	Yes	String	Route table name. The value can contain 1 to 64 characters. Only digits, letters, underscores (_), hyphens (-), and periods (.) are allowed. Minimum: 1 Maximum: 64
description	No	String	Description of the route table Minimum: 0 Maximum: 255
tags	No	Array of Tag objects	Tag information

**Table 5** Tag
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
key	No	String	Tag key. A tag key can contain letters, digits, spaces encoded using UTF-8, and special characters _.:=+-@ A tag key cannot be left blank. A tag key can contain 1 to 128 characters. Tags with the tag key starting with _sys_ are system tags and cannot be added by tenants. Minimum: 1 Maximum: 128
value	No	String	Tag value. A tag value can contain letters, digits, spaces encoded using UTF-8, and special characters _.:=+-@ A tag value can be left blank or set to null. A tag value can contain 0 to 255 characters. Minimum: 0 Maximum: 255

Response Parameters

Status code: 202

**Table 6** Response header parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
X-Client-Token	String	Idempotence identifier

**Table 7** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
route_table	RouteTable object	Route table
request_id	String	Request ID

**Table 8** RouteTable
Parameter	Type	Description
id	String	Route table ID
name	String	Route table name
description	String	Description
is_default_association	Boolean	Whether the route table is the default association route table. Default: false
is_default_propagation	Boolean	Whether the route table is the default propagation route table.
state	String	Definition: Route table status. Range: pending available deleting deleted failed
tags	Array of Tag objects	Tag
created_at	String	Creation time in the format of YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ
updated_at	String	Update time in the format of YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ

**Table 9** Tag
Parameter	Type	Description
key	String	Tag key. A tag key can contain letters, digits, spaces encoded using UTF-8, and special characters _.:=+-@ A tag key cannot be left blank. A tag key can contain 1 to 128 characters. Tags with the tag key starting with _sys_ are system tags and cannot be added by tenants. Minimum: 1 Maximum: 128
value	String	Tag value. A tag value can contain letters, digits, spaces encoded using UTF-8, and special characters _.:=+-@ A tag value can be left blank or set to null. A tag value can contain 0 to 255 characters. Minimum: 0 Maximum: 255

Example Requests

Creating a route table named my-route-table

POST https://{erouter_endpoint}/v3/08d5a9564a704afda6039ae2babbef3c/enterprise-router/915a14a6-867b-4af7-83d1-70efceb146f0/route-tables

{
  "route_table" : {
    "name" : "my-route-table",
    "tags" : [ {
      "key" : "key",
      "value" : "value"
    } ]
  }
}

Example Responses

Status code: 202

Accepted

{
  "route_table" : {
    "id" : "4ab54142-7c92-48ad-8288-77727a231052",
    "name" : "my-route-table",
    "is_default_association" : false,
    "is_default_propagation" : false,
    "state" : "pending",
    "created_at" : "2020-03-11T15:13:31Z",
    "updated_at" : "2020-03-11T15:13:31Z",
    "tags" : [ {
      "key" : "key",
      "value" : "value"
    } ]
  },
  "request_id" : "915a14a6-867b-4af7-83d1-70efceb146f9"
}