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Help Center/ IoT Device Access/ API Reference/ API Reference on the Application Side/ API/ Group Management/ Create a Device Group

Create a Device Group

Updated on 2025-03-03 GMT+08:00

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Function

This API is used by an application to create a device group. Up to 1000 device groups, including parent device groups and child device groups, can be created in a Huawei Cloud account. The maximum number of group levels is five. It means that the relationship tree of groups can have up to five levels.

Debugging

You can debug this API through automatic authentication in API Explorer or use the SDK sample code generated by API Explorer.

URI

POST /v5/iot/{project_id}/device-group

**Table 1** Path Parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
project_id	Yes	String	Parameter description: project ID. For details about how to obtain the project ID, see Obtaining a Project ID.

Request Parameters

**Table 2** Request header parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
X-Auth-Token	No	String	Parameter description: user token. You can obtain the token by calling the IAM API Obtaining a User Token Through Password Authentication. X-Subject-Token in the response header returned by the API is the desired user token. For details about how to obtain the token, see Token Authentication.
Instance-Id	No	String	Parameter description: instance ID. Unique identifier of each instance in the physical multi-tenant scenario. Mandatory for professional editions and recommended in other cases. Log in to the IoTDA console and choose Overview in the navigation pane to view the instance ID. For details, see Viewing Instance Details.

**Table 3** Request body parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
name	No	String	Parameter description: device group name, which must be unique in a single resource space. Value: The value can contain a maximum of 64 characters. Only letters, digits, underscores (_), and question marks (?) are allowed. '#().,& %@!-.
description	No	String	Parameter description: device group description. Value: The value can contain a maximum of 64 characters. Only letters, digits, underscores (_), and question marks (?) are allowed. '#().,& %@!-.
super_group_id	No	String	Parameter description: parent device group ID. If this parameter is carried, a child device group is created in the device group. Dynamic groups do not support this parameter. Value: The value can contain a maximum of 36 characters, including hexadecimal strings and hyphens (-).
app_id	No	String	Parameter description: resource space ID. This parameter is optional. If you have multiple resource spaces, you can use this parameter to specify the resource space to which the device group to create will belong. If this parameter is not specified, the device group to create will belong to the default resource space. Value: The value can contain a maximum of 36 characters. Only letters, digits, underscores (_), and hyphens (-) are allowed.
group_type	No	String	Parameter description: device group type. A static device group is used by default. When a dynamic device group is used, enter the dynamic device group rule. Options: DYNAMIC (dynamic group) and STATIC (static group, default value).
dynamic_group_rule	No	String	Parameter description: The syntax of the dynamic device group rule must be the same as that of Query Device List Flexibly. You only need to enter the where clause.

Response Parameters

Status code: 201

**Table 4** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
group_id	String	Device group ID. The ID is unique and is allocated by the platform during device group creation.
name	String	Device group name, which must be unique in a single resource space.
description	String	Device group description.
super_group_id	String	ID of the parent device group.
group_type	String	Device group type, which can be dynamic or static.
dynamic_group_rule	String	Dynamic device group rule.

Example Requests

Creates a static device group named GroupA.

POST https://{endpoint}/v5/iot/{project_id}/device-group

{
  "name" : "GroupA",
  "description" : "GroupA",
  "super_group_id" : "04ed32dc1b0025b52fe3c01a27c2b0a8",
  "app_id" : "jeQDJQZltU8iKgFFoW060F5SGZka",
  "group_type" : "STATIC"
}

Creates a dynamic device group named GroupA.

POST https://{endpoint}/v5/iot/{project_id}/device-group

{
  "name" : "GroupA",
  "description" : "GroupA",
  "app_id" : "jeQDJQZltU8iKgFFoW060F5SGZka",
  "dynamic_group_rule" : "product_id = '63fef97897bacf7a56438cba'",
  "group_type" : "DYNAMIC"
}

Example Responses

Status code: 201

Created

{
  "group_id" : "04ed32dc1b0025b52fe3c01a27c2babc",
  "name" : "GroupA",
  "description" : "GroupA",
  "super_group_id" : "04ed32dc1b0025b52fe3c01a27c2b0a8",
  "group_type" : "STATIC",
  "dynamic_group_rule" : null
}

Status Codes

Status Code	Description
201	Created
400	Bad Request
401	Unauthorized
403	Forbidden
404	Not Found
500	Internal Server Error

Error Codes

See Error Codes.

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