Create an API group - Developer Guide| Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

Description

To create an API group, you must firstly create a group which is a basic attribute of the API.

This API is intended for API providers.
Up to 100 API groups can be created in each region on a per-user basis.
Second-level domain names are automatically assigned to API groups for API testing.
API groups have the region attribute. After you create an API and select a group for the API, the corresponding region is also selected. We recommend that you select the region where your backend services are located for reducing network delay.
After you create an API group, you can bind a filed custom domain name to the group.
This API can call up to 50 QPS for a single user.

Request parameters

Name	Type	Required?	Description
Action	String	Yes	Interface name, which is a required parameter; value: CreateApiGroup.
GroupName	String	Yes	Group name, which must be globally unique and contain 4–50 characters including Chinese characters, English letters, numbers, and English-style underscores. The group name must start with an English letter or a Chinese character.
Description	String	No	API group description, which cannot exceed 180 characters.

Return parameters

Name	Type	Description
RequestId	String	Unique request ID.
GroupID	String	API group ID, which is generated by the system and globally unique.
GroupName	String	API group name.
SubDomain	String	Second-level domain name bound to the API group, which is used for API call testing.
Description	String	API group description.

Examples

Request example

http://apigateway.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com?Action=CreateApiGroup
&GroupName=Weather
&Description=The weather informations.
&<Public request parameters>

Response example

XML format

<CreateApiGroupResponse>
    <RequestId>FF3B7D81-66AE-47E0-BF69-157DCF187514</RequestId>
    <GroupId>523e8dc7bbe04613b5b1d726c2a7889d</GroupId>
    <GroupName>Weather</GroupName>
    <SubDomain>523e8dc7bbe04613b5b1d726c2a7889d-cn-hangzhou.alicloudapi.com</SubDomain>
    <Description>The weather informations</Description>
</CreateApiGroupResponse>

JSON format

 {
  "RequestId": "FF3B7D81-66AE-47E0-BF69-157DCF187514",
  "GroupId": "523e8dc7bbe04613b5b1d726c2a7889d",
  "GroupName": "Weather",
  "SubDomain": "523e8dc7bbe04613b5b1d726c2a7889d-cn-hangzhou.alicloudapi.com",
  "Description": "The weather informations"
 }