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Amazon IoT Device Management Thing Types API

The Thing Types API from Amazon IoT Device Management — 3 operation(s) for thing types.

Amazon IoT Device Management Thing Types API is one of 69 APIs that Amazon IoT Device Management publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Thing Types. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a getting-started guide, and pricing.

This API exposes 5 operations across 3 paths, and defines 29 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.0.

Requests are made against 4 base URLs: http://iot.{region}.amazonaws.com, https://iot.{region}.amazonaws.com, http://iot.{region}.amazonaws.com.cn, https://iot.{region}.amazonaws.com.cn.

5 operations 3 paths 29 schemas 1 DELETE2 GET2 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
1.0.0
Base URL
https://iot.amazonaws.com
Authentication
API Key
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Amazon IoT Device Management Thing Types API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the header as Authorization (hmac). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • hmac — Amazon Signature authorization v4

Paths & Operations 5

Across 3 paths, the API surfaces 5 operations — 1 DELETE, 2 GET, 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Thing Types 5
POST
/thing-types/{thingTypeName}
Amazon IoT Device Management Create Thing Type
CreateThingType 8 params body → 200480481482483484485
DELETE
/thing-types/{thingTypeName}
Amazon IoT Device Management Delete Thing Type
DeleteThingType 8 params → 200480481482483484485
GET
/thing-types/{thingTypeName}
Amazon IoT Device Management Describe Thing Type
DescribeThingType 8 params → 200480481482483484485
POST
/thing-types/{thingTypeName}/deprecate
Amazon IoT Device Management Deprecate Thing Type
DeprecateThingType 8 params body → 200480481482483484485
GET
/thing-types
Amazon IoT Device Management List Thing Types
ListThingTypes 10 params → 200480481482483484

Schemas 29

The contract defines 29 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are DescribeThingTypeResponse (5 properties), ThingTypeDefinition (4 properties), CreateThingTypeResponse (3 properties), ThingTypeMetadata (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

InternalFailureException
ThingTypeDescription
string
ThingTypeMetadata
object
The ThingTypeMetadata contains additional information about the thing type including: creation date and time, a value indicating whether the thing type is depr…
3 properties
ThrottlingException
Boolean
boolean
ThingTypeList
array
ResourceAlreadyExistsException
InvalidRequestException
DeleteThingTypeResponse
object
The output for the DeleteThingType operation.
UnauthorizedException
AttributeName
string
ThingTypeName
string
ThingTypeArn
string
ThingTypeProperties
object
The ThingTypeProperties contains information about the thing type including: a thing type description, and a list of searchable thing attribute names.
2 properties
TagValue
string
CreationDate
string
Tag
object
A set of key/value pairs that are used to manage the resource.
2 properties 1 required
ServiceUnavailableException
ThingTypeId
string
CreateThingTypeResponse
object
The output of the CreateThingType operation.
3 properties
ListThingTypesResponse
object
The output for the ListThingTypes operation.
2 properties
NextToken
string
SearchableAttributes
array
TagKey
string
ThingTypeDefinition
object
The definition of the thing type, including thing type name and description.
4 properties
ResourceNotFoundException
DeprecateThingTypeResponse
object
The output for the DeprecateThingType operation.
DescribeThingTypeResponse
object
The output for the DescribeThingType operation.
5 properties
DeprecationDate
string

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

amazon-iot-device-management-thing-types-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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