CreateTemplate - API Reference| Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

In this example, a template named MyTemplate is created in the China (Hangzhou) region. The template body is set to {"ROSTemplateFormatVersion": "2015-09-01"}.

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Request parameters


Parameter	Type	Required	Example	Description
Action	String	Yes	CreateTemplate	The operation that you want to perform. Set the value to CreateTemplate.
TemplateName	String	Yes	MyTemplate	The name of the template. The name can be up to 255 characters in length and can contain digits, letters, hyphens (-), and underscores (_). It must start with a digit or letter.
TemplateURL	String	No	oss://ros/template/demo	The URL of the file that contains the template body. The URL must point to a template located in an HTTP or HTTPS web server or an Alibaba Cloud OSS bucket. Examples: oss://ros/template/demo and oss://ros/template/demo?RegionId=cn-hangzhou. The template can be up to 524,288 bytes in length, and the URL can be up to 1,024 bytes in length. Note If the region of the OSS bucket is not specified, the RegionId parameter value is used. You can specify one of the TemplateBody and TemplateURL parameters, but you cannot specify both of them.
Description	String	No	It is a demo.	The description of the template. The description can be up to 256 characters in length.
TemplateBody	String	No	{"ROSTemplateFormatVersion":"2015-09-01"}	The structure that contains the template body. The template body must be 1 to 524,288 bytes in length. If the length of the template body is longer than required, we recommend that you add parameters to the HTTP POST request body to avoid request failures due to excessive length of URLs. You must specify one of the TemplateBody and TemplateURL parameters, but you cannot specify both of them.
ResourceGroupId	String	No	rg-acfmxazb4ph6aiy****	The ID of the resource group. For more information about resource groups, see What is a resource group?.

For more information about common request parameters, see Common parameters.

Response parameters


Parameter	Type	Example	Description
RequestId	String	8C5D90E1-66B6-496C-9371-3807F8DA80A8	The ID of the request.
TemplateId	String	5ecd1e10-b0e9-4389-a565-e4c15efc****	The ID of the template.

Examples

Sample requests

http(s)://ros.aliyuncs.com/?Action=CreateTemplate
&TemplateName=MyTemplate
&TemplateBody={"ROSTemplateFormatVersion":"2015-09-01"}
&<Common request parameters>

Sample success responses

XML format

<CreateTemplateResponse>
          <RequestId>8C5D90E1-66B6-496C-9371-3807F8DA80A8</RequestId>
          <TemplateId>5ecd1e10-b0e9-4389-a565-e4c15efc****</TemplateId>
</CreateTemplateResponse>

JSON format

{
    "RequestId": "8C5D90E1-66B6-496C-9371-3807F8DA80A8",
    "TemplateId": "5ecd1e10-b0e9-4389-a565-e4c15efc****"
}

Error codes

For a list of error codes, visit the API Error Center.


HTTP status code	Error codes	Error message	Description
400	InvalidSchema	{reason}.	The error message returned because the template format is invalid. reason indicates the specific reason.
400	InvalidTemplateAttribute	The Referenced Attribute ({resource} {name}) is incorrect.	The error message returned because the resource attribute referenced in the template is invalid. resource indicates the resource name, and name indicates the attribute name.
400	InvalidTemplatePropertyType	The specified value type of ({resource} {section}) is incorrect.	The error message returned because the type of the resource section defined in the template is invalid. resource indicates the resource name, and section indicates the section name.
400	InvalidTemplateReference	The specified reference "{name}" (in {referencer}) is incorrect.	The error message returned because the template contains an invalid reference. name indicates the reference name, and referencer indicates the referencer name.
400	InvalidTemplateSection	The template section is invalid: {section}.	The error message returned because the template contains an invalid section. section indicates the section name.
400	InvalidTemplateVersion	The template version is invalid: {reason}.	The error message returned because the template version is invalid. reason indicates the specific reason.