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Creating a Media Asset Category

Function

This API is used to create a media asset category.

Constraints

You can create up to three categories, each of which supports up to 128 subcategories.

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 /v1.0/{project_id}/asset/category

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

name

Yes

String

Media asset category name, which contains a maximum of 64 characters.

parent_id

No

Integer

Parent category ID.

If this parameter is not specified, a level-1 category is generated by default.

The root category ID is 0.

Response Parameters

Status code: 200

Table 4 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

name

String

Media asset category name.

parent_id

Integer

Parent category ID.

The ID of the level-1 parent category is 0.

id

Integer

Media asset category ID.

level

Integer

Media asset category level.

The options include:

  • 1: level-1 category

  • 2: level-2 category

  • 3: level-3 category

projectId

String

Project ID.

Status code: 400

Table 5 Response body parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

error_code

String

Error code.

error_msg

String

Error description.

Example Requests

This example creates a media asset category.

POST https://{endpoint}/v1.0/{project_id}/asset/category

Content-Type: application/json
{
  "name": "Movie"
}

Example Responses

Status code: 200

Returned when the request succeeded.

{
  "id" : 334,
  "name" : "Movie",
  "parent_id" : 0,
  "level" : 1,
  "projectId" : "58411d8df9064*****75d75b54e01358"
}

Status code: 400

Returned when the request failed.

{
  "error_code" : "VOD.10053",
  "error_msg" : "The request parameter is illegal, illegal field: {xx}."
}

Status Codes

Status Code

Description

200

Returned when the request succeeded.

400

Returned when the request failed.

Error Codes

See Error Codes.