Querying Regions

Function

This API is used to query the regions accessible to a specified user.

The API can be called using both the global endpoint and region-specific endpoints. For IAM endpoints, see Regions and Endpoints.

URI

GET /v3/regions

Request Parameters

**Table 1** Parameters in the request header
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
Content-Type	Yes	String	Fill application/json;charset=utf8 in this field.
X-Auth-Token	Yes	String	IAM user token (no special permission requirements). If the token does not contain private region information, no private regions will be returned.

Response Parameters

**Table 2** Parameters in the response body
Parameter	Type	Description
links	Object	Resource link information.
regions	Array of objects	Region information.

**Table 3** links
Parameter	Type	Description
self	String	Resource link.
previous	String	Previous resource link.
next	String	Next resource link.

**Table 4** regions
Parameter	Type	Description
description	String	Description of the region.
parent_region_id	String	Null.
links	Object	Region resource link.
locales	Object	Region name.
id	String	Region ID.
type	String	Region type.

**Table 5** regions.links
Parameter	Type	Description
self	String	Resource link.

**Table 6** regions.locales
Parameter	Type	Description
zh-cn	String	Region name in Chinese.
en-us	String	Region name in English.
pt-br	String	Region name in Portuguese.
es-us	String	Region name in American Spanish.
es-es	String	Region name in Spanish.

Example Request

Request for querying a region list

GET https://iam.myhuaweicloud.com/v3/regions

Example Response

Status code: 200

The request is successful.

{
    "regions": [
        {
            "parent_region_id": null,
            "description": "",
            "links": {
                "self": "https://iam.myhuaweicloud.com/v3/regions/ap-southeast-1"
            },
            "type": "public",
            "id": "ap-southeast-1",
            "locales": {
                "zh-cn": "CN-Hong Kong",
                "en-us": "ap-southeast-1"
            }
        },
        {
            "parent_region_id": null,
            "description": "",
            "links": {
                "self": "https://iam.myhuaweicloud.com/v3/regions/la-south-2"
            },
            "type": "public",
            "id": "la-south-2",
            "locales": {
                "pt-br": "AL-Santiago",
                "zh-cn": "Region name in Chinese",
                "en-us": "LA-Santiago",
                "es-us": "AL-Santiago de Chile1",
                "es-es": "LA-Santiago"
            }
        }
    ],
    "links": {
        "self": "https://iam.myhuaweicloud.com/v3/regions",
        "previous": null,
        "next": null
    }
}

Status Codes

Status Code	Description
200	The request is successful.
400	Invalid parameters.
401	Authentication failed.
403	Access denied.
404	The requested resource cannot be found.
405	The method specified in the request is not allowed for the requested resource.
413	The request entity is too large.
500	Internal server error.
503	Service unavailable.