Querying the Secret Version and Value

Function

This API is used to query a specified secret version and its plaintext secret value. Only enabled secrets can be queried.

You can obtain the value of the latest secret version via /v1/{project_id}/secrets/{secret_name}/versions/latest. Set {version_id} in the URL of the current API to latest.

Calling Method

For details, see Calling APIs.

Authorization Information

Each account has all the permissions required to call all APIs, but IAM users must be assigned the required permissions.

If you are using role/policy-based authorization, see Permissions Policies and Supported Actions for details on the required permissions.

If you are using identity policy-based authorization, the following identity policy-based permissions are required.

Action	Access Level	Resource Type (*: required)	Condition Key	Alias	Dependencies
csms:secret:getVersion	Read	secretName *	csms:Type csms:VersionId g:EnterpriseProjectId g:ResourceTag/<tag-key>	csms:secretVersion:get	kms:cmk:decryptDataKey

URI

GET /v1/{project_id}/secrets/{secret_name}/versions/{version_id}

**Table 1** Path Parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
project_id	Yes	String	Definition Project ID. For details, see Obtaining a Project ID. Constraints N/A Range The value returned by the IAM API is used, which contains 32 characters. Default Value N/A
secret_name	Yes	String	Definition Secret name. Constraints N/A Range The value must match the regular expression ^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]{1,64}$. Default Value N/A
version_id	Yes	String	Definition Secret version, which stores the secret version content. Secret versions are numbered v1, v2, v3, and so on based on their creation time. Constraints A secret can have up to 20 versions. Range The value must match the regular expression v[0-9]{1,10}\|latest. Default Value latest

Request Parameters

**Table 2** Request header parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
X-Auth-Token	Yes	String	Definition User token. It can be obtained by calling the IAM API. The value of X-Subject-Token in the response header is the user token. This parameter is optional if AK/SK authentication is used. Constraints N/A Range Obtain the value by calling the IAM API for obtaining the user token. Default Value N/A

Response Parameters

Status code: 200

**Table 3** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
version	Version object	Definition Secret version. Range N/A

**Table 4** Version
Parameter	Type	Description
version_metadata	VersionMetadata object	Definition Secret version metadata. Range N/A
secret_binary	String	Definition Plaintext of a binary secret encoded using Base64. CSMS encrypts the plaintext and stores it in the initial version of the secret. Type: Base64-encoded binary data object. Range N/A
secret_string	String	Definition Plaintext of a text secret. CSMS encrypts the plaintext and stores it in the initial version of the secret. Range N/A

**Table 5** VersionMetadata
Parameter	Type	Description
id	String	Definition Secret version ID, which is unique under a secret object. Range N/A
create_time	Long	Definition Timestamp when a secret version was created, that is, total number of seconds since January 1, 1970. Range N/A
expire_time	Long	Definition Timestamp when a secret version expired, that is, the total seconds since January 1, 1970. This parameter is left blank by default. When version expiration events are subscribed to, the validity period is determined based on this parameter. Range N/A
kms_key_id	String	Definition ID of the KMS CMK used to encrypt secret values Range N/A
secret_name	String	Definition Secret name Range N/A
version_stages	Array of strings	Definition Secret version status list. Each status tag is unique for a secret version. If a status tag in use is added to a new version, the tag will be automatically removed from the original version. If version_stage is not specified, the temporary tag SYSCURRENT will be added to this version. Range N/A

Example Requests

None

Example Responses

Status code: 200

Request succeeded.

{
  "version" : {
    "version_metadata" : {
      "id" : "v6",
      "kms_key_id" : "b168fe00ff56492495a7d22974df2d0b",
      "create_time" : 1581507580000,
      "secret_name" : "secret-name-demo",
      "version_stages" : [ "SYSCURRENT" ]
    },
    "secret_string" : "\\\"demo_key\\\":\\\"demo_value\\\""
  }
}