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Querying Resources by Tag

Function

This API is used to query resources by tag.

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. For details about the required permissions, see Permissions Policies and Supported Actions.

URI

POST /v1/{resource_type}/resource-instances/filter

**Table 1** Path Parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
resource_type	Yes	Object	Specifies the resource type.

**Table 2** Query Parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
limit	No	Integer	Specifies the number of results on each page.
offset	No	Integer	Specifies the number of bytes to skip before starting to read data.

Request Parameters

**Table 3** Request header parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
X-Auth-Token	Yes	String	Specifies the user token. The token can be obtained by calling the IAM API. The value of X-Subject-Token in the response header is the user token.

**Table 4** Request body parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
tags	No	Array of Tag objects	Specifies the tag list.
matches	No	Array of Match objects	Specifies the matched results.

**Table 5** Tag
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
key	Yes	String	Specifies tag key.
values	Yes	Array of strings	Specifies the values of the tag.

**Table 6** Match
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
key	Yes	String	Specifies the key of the matched result.
value	Yes	String	Specifies the value of the matched result.

Response Parameters

Status code: 200

**Table 7** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
resources	Array of ResourceTags objects	Specifies the resource list.
total_count	Integer	Specifies the total number of resources.

**Table 8** ResourceTags
Parameter	Type	Description
resource_id	String	Specifies the resource ID.
resource_name	String	Specifies resource name.
tags	Array of ResourceTag objects	Specifies the tag.

**Table 9** ResourceTag
Parameter	Type	Description
key	String	Specifies the tag key. The key must meet the following requirements: The key can contain 1 to 128 characters. The key can contain UTF-8 letters, digits, spaces, and the following characters:_.:=+-@ Tags starting with _sys_ are system tags and cannot be entered by tenants.
value	String	Specifies the tag value. The value must meet the following requirements: The value can contain 0 to 255 characters. The key can contain UTF-8 letters, digits, spaces, and the following characters:_.:/=+-@ The value can be empty or null.

Example Requests

Querying Resources by Tag

POST https://{ga_endpoint}/v1/{resource_type}/resource-instances/filter

{
  "tags" : [ {
    "key" : "tagKey",
    "values" : [ "tagValue" ]
  } ],
  "matches" : [ {
    "key" : "resourceName",
    "value" : "name"
  } ]
}

Example Responses

Status code: 200

Operation successful.

{
  "resources" : [ {
    "resource_id" : "c2b210b2-60c4-449d-91e2-9e9ea1dd7443",
    "resource_name" : "resourceName",
    "tags" : [ {
      "key" : "tagKey",
      "value" : "tagValue"
    } ]
  } ],
  "total_count" : 1
}