Updated on 2025-11-06 GMT+08:00

Querying All Identity Policies

Function

This API is used to query all identity policies, including system-defined identity policies and custom identity policies.

Authorization Information

Each account 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

iam:policies:listV5

List

policy *

-

-

-

URI

GET /v5/policies

Table 1 Query Parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

limit

No

Integer

Number of records displayed on each page. The value ranges from 1 to 200. The default value is 100.

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 200

Default: 100

marker

No

String

Pagination marker. The value contains 4 to 400 characters, including only letters, digits, and the following special characters: +/=-_

Minimum: 4

Maximum: 400

policy_type

No

String

Identity policy type. The value can be custom or system-defined.

path_prefix

No

String

Resource path prefix, which consists of multiple character strings. Each character string must end with a slash (/) and can only contain letters, digits, and the following special characters: .,+@=_-, for example, foo/bar/.

Maximum: 512

only_attached

No

Boolean

Indicates whether to only list the identity policies with entities attached.

Default: false

Request Parameters

Table 2 Request header parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

X-Language

No

String

Language of the returned message. The value can be zh-cn or en-us and is zh-cn by default.

Default: zh-cn

Response Parameters

Status code: 200

Table 3 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

policies

Array of Policy objects

Identity policy list.

page_info

PageInfo object

Pagination information.

Table 4 Policy

Parameter

Type

Description

policy_type

String

Identity policy type. The value can be custom or system-defined.

policy_name

String

Identity policy name. The value contains 1 to 128 characters, including only letters, digits, and the following special characters: _+=.@-

policy_id

String

Identity policy ID. The value contains 1 to 64 characters, including only letters, digits, and hyphens (-).

urn

String

Uniform resource name.

path

String

Resource path, which is an empty string by default. It consists of multiple character strings. Each character string must end with a slash (/) and can only contain letters, digits, and the following special characters: .,+@=_-, for example, foo/bar/.

default_version_id

String

Default version number.

attachment_count

Integer

Number of entities to which an identity policy is attached.

description

String

Identity policy description.

created_at

String

Time when an identity policy was created.

updated_at

String

Time when the default version of an identity policy was last updated.

Table 5 PageInfo

Parameter

Type

Description

next_marker

String

If this parameter exists, there are subsequent items that are not displayed in the current response body. The value can be used as the pagination marker parameter for the next request to obtain information about the next page. This API can be repeatedly called until this field does not exist.

current_count

Integer

Number of items returned on this page.

Status code: 403

Table 6 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error code.

error_msg

String

Error message.

request_id

String

Request ID.

encoded_authorization_message

String

Encrypted authentication failure information, which can be decrypted using the STS5 decryption API.

Example Requests

Querying all identity policies

GET https://{endpoint}/v5/policies

Example Responses

Status code: 200

Successful

{
  "policies" : [ {
    "policy_type" : "custom",
    "policy_name" : "name",
    "policy_id" : "string",
    "urn" : "iam::accountid:policy:name",
    "path" : "",
    "default_version_id" : "v1",
    "attachment_count" : 0,
    "description" : "description",
    "created_at" : "2023-09-25T07:49:11.582Z",
    "updated_at" : "2023-09-25T07:49:11.582Z"
  } ],
  "page_info" : {
    "next_marker" : "marker",
    "current_count" : 1
  }
}

Status Codes

Status Code

Description

200

Successful

403

Forbidden

Error Codes

See Error Codes.