Call operations in OpenAPI Explorer - API Gateway - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

This topic describes the basic information and precautions for calling API Gateway API operations in OpenAPI Explorer.

Note

For more information about how to call the API operations of Alibaba Cloud, see Overview.

Basic information

Versions

Version	Description
2016-07-14	Recommended

Endpoints

For more information, see Endpoints.

User identities

User identity	Supported
Alibaba Cloud account	Yes
Resource Access Management (RAM) user (recommended)	Yes
RAM role (recommended)	Yes

We recommend that you use a RAM user or a RAM role to call operations. Before you use a RAM user or a RAM role to call operations, grant the required permissions to the RAM user or RAM role.

Style

The API operations of API Gateway are called in the remote procedure call (RPC) style. For more information about API styles, see API styles.

Call methods

Call method	Supported	References
Alibaba Cloud SDKs (recommended)	Yes	For more information about the supported languages and dependencies of API Gateway SDKs, see the API Gateway page of SDK Center. You can also refer to the following topics: Get started with Alibaba Cloud Darabonba SDK for Java Get started with Alibaba Cloud Darabonba SDK for Python For more information about how to integrate Alibaba Cloud SDKs, see Alibaba Cloud SDKs.
Alibaba Cloud Command Line Interface (CLI)	Yes	For more information about how to use Alibaba Cloud CLI to call API operations, see Alibaba Cloud CLI.
Resource Orchestration Service (ROS)	Yes	For more information about how to use ROS to call API operations, see ROS.
Terraform	Yes	For more information about how to use Terraform to call API operations, see Terraform.

If the preceding call methods cannot meet your business requirements, you can encapsulate API requests. For more information, see Overview.

Usage notes

We recommend that you call API operations by integrating API Gateway SDKs.