Queries standard product categories that are predefined by IoT Platform.

Usage notes

IoT Platform provides product categories that have defined TSL models, such as street lamps, vehicle location cards, and water immersion detectors.

When you call the CreateProduct operation to create a product, you can set the CategoryKey parameter to specify a product category. The product that you create references the standardized TSL model of the specified category.

Limits

Each Alibaba Cloud account can run a maximum of 5 queries per second (QPS).

Note RAM users of an Alibaba Cloud account share the quota of the account.

Debugging

OpenAPI Explorer automatically calculates the signature value. For your convenience, we recommend that you call this operation in OpenAPI Explorer. OpenAPI Explorer dynamically generates the sample code of the operation for different SDKs.

Request parameters

Parameter Type Required Example Description
Action String Yes ListThingTemplates

The operation that you want to perform. Set the value to ListThingTemplates.
IotInstanceId String No iot_instc_pu****_c*-v64********

The ID of the instance. This parameter is not required for public instances. However, the parameter is required for the instances that you have purchased.

ResourceGroupId String No rg-acfm4l5tcwd****

The ID of the resource group.

Note You cannot specify this parameter.

In addition to the preceding operation-specific request parameters, you must specify common request parameters when you call this operation. For information about common request parameters, see Common parameters.

Response parameters

Parameter Type Example Description
Code String iot.system.SystemException

The error code returned if the call fails. For more information, see Error codes.

Data Array of CategoryInfo

The list of standard categories returned if the call is successful.
CategoryKey String lighting

The identifier of the category.
CategoryName String Street Lamp

The name of the category.
ErrorMessage String A system exception occurred.

The error message returned if the call fails.
RequestId String E55E50B7-40EE-4B6B-8BBE-D3ED55CCF565

The ID of the request.
Success Boolean true

Indicates whether the call was successful.

  • true: The call was successful.
  • false: The call failed.

Examples

Sample requests

https://iot.cn-shanghai.aliyuncs.com/?Action=ListThingTemplates
&<Common request parameters>

Sample success responses

XML format 

<ListThingTemplatesResponse>
  <RequestId>57b144cf-09fc-4916-a272-a62902d5b207</RequestId>
  <Success>true</Success>
  <Data>
        <CategoryName>Smart Rear-view Mirror</CategoryName>
        <CategoryKey>SmartRearviewMirror</CategoryKey>
  </Data>
  <Data>
        <CategoryName>Smart In-vehicle Infotainment</CategoryName>
        <CategoryKey>SmartTox</CategoryKey>
  </Data>
</ListThingTemplatesResponse>

JSON format 

{
  "RequestId":"57b144cf-09fc-4916-a272-a62902d5b207",
  "Success":true,
  "Data": [
    {
      "CategoryName": "Smart Rear-view Mirror",
      "CategoryKey": "SmartRearviewMirror"
    },
    {
      "CategoryName": "Smart In-vehicle Infotainment",
      "CategoryKey": "SmartTox"
    }
  ]
}

Error codes

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