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Modifying Media Asset Attributes

Function

This API is used to modify media asset attributes.

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

PUT /v1.0/{project_id}/asset/info

Table 1 Path Parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

project_id

Yes

String

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

User token. This parameter is mandatory when token authentication is used.

It can be obtained by calling the IAM API used to obtain a user token. The value of X-Subject-Token in the response header is the user token.

Authorization

No

String

Authentication information. This parameter is mandatory for AK/SK authentication.

X-Sdk-Date

No

String

Time when a request is sent. This parameter is mandatory for AK/SK authentication.

Table 3 Request body parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

asset_id

Yes

String

Media asset ID assigned by VOD. It can only be queried but cannot be modified.

title

No

String

Media asset title. The value is UTF-8 encoded and contains a maximum of 128 characters.

description

No

String

Media asset description. The value can contain a maximum of 1,024 bytes.

Note: The media asset description cannot be modified for audio media assets.

category_id

No

Integer

Media asset category ID.

tags

No

String

Media asset tags.

Each tag contains up to 24 characters and up to 16 tags are allowed.

Use commas (,) to separate tags. All tags must be UTF-8 encoded.

Response Parameters

Status code: 204

Returned when the request succeeded.

Status code: 400

Table 4 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error code.

error_msg

String

Error description.

Example Requests

This example modifies the attributes of a media asset.

PUT https://{endpoint}/v1.0/{project_id}/asset/info

Content-Type: application/json
{
  "asset_id": "f488337c31c8e4622f1590735b134c65",
  "title": "Avatar",
  "description": "Avatar, marketed as James Cameron's Avatar, is a 2009 American epic\nscience fiction film directed, written, produced, and co-edited by\nJames Cameron",
  "category_id": "1"
}

Example Responses

Status code: 400

Returned when the request failed.

{
  "error_code" : "VOD.10062",
  "error_msg" : "Media asset or resource does not exist, please check."
}

Status Codes

Status Code

Description

204

Returned when the request succeeded.

400

Returned when the request failed.

Error Codes

See Error Codes.