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API Gateway:ImportSwagger

Last Updated:Jul 31, 2025

Creates an API by importing Swagger-compliant data.

Operation description

  • Alibaba Cloud supports extensions based on Swagger 2.0.
  • Alibaba Cloud supports Swagger configuration files in JSON and YAML formats.

Debugging

You can run this interface directly in OpenAPI Explorer, saving you the trouble of calculating signatures. After running successfully, OpenAPI Explorer can automatically generate SDK code samples.

Authorization information

The following table shows the authorization information corresponding to the API. The authorization information can be used in the Action policy element to grant a RAM user or RAM role the permissions to call this API operation. Description:

  • Operation: the value that you can use in the Action element to specify the operation on a resource.
  • Access level: the access level of each operation. The levels are read, write, and list.
  • Resource type: the type of the resource on which you can authorize the RAM user or the RAM role to perform the operation. Take note of the following items:
    • For mandatory resource types, indicate with a prefix of * .
    • If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level, All Resources is used in the Resource type column of the operation.
  • Condition Key: the condition key that is defined by the cloud service.
  • Associated operation: other operations that the RAM user or the RAM role must have permissions to perform to complete the operation. To complete the operation, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform the associated operations.
OperationAccess levelResource typeCondition keyAssociated operation
apigateway:ImportSwaggercreate
*ApiGroup
acs:apigateway:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:apigroup/{#GroupId}
    none
none

Request parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescriptionExample
OverwritebooleanYes

Specifies whether to overwrite the existing API.

APIs with the same HTTP request type and backend request path are considered the same.

true
GlobalConditionobjectNo

The global conditions.

{}
DataFormatstringYes

The Swagger text format:

  • json
  • yaml
yaml
DatastringYes

The Swagger text content.

"A Swagger API definition in YAML"
GroupIdstringYes

The ID of the API group to which the Swagger is imported.

0009db9c828549768a200320714b8930
DryRunbooleanNo

The pre-inspection.

true

Response parameters

ParameterTypeDescriptionExample
object
RequestIdstring

The ID of the request.

647CEF05-404C-4125-B3D7-44792EB77392
Successarray<object>

The APIs that are created based on the Swagger-compliant data imported this time.

ApiImportSwaggerSuccessobject

The APIs that are created based on the Swagger-compliant data imported this time.

Pathstring

The request path configured when the API is created.

/http/get/mapping
HttpMethodstring

The HTTP method configured when the API is created.

get
ApiOperationstring

Specifies whether the operation is CREATE or MODIFY.

CREATE
ApiUidstring

The UID of the successfully imported API.

8e274ec61cf6468e83b68371956831cb
Failedarray<object>

The APIs that failed to be created based on the Swagger-compliant data imported this time.

ApiImportSwaggerFailedobject

The APIs that failed to be created based on the Swagger-compliant data imported this time.

Pathstring

The request path configured when the API is created.

/http/get/mapping
HttpMethodstring

The HTTP method configured when the API is created.

post
ErrorMsgstring

The error message returned when the API is created.

api already exists : apiUid ===> 8e274ec61cf6468e83b68371956831cb
ModelFailedarray<object>

The models that failed to be imported through the Swagger-compliant data this time.

ApiImportModelFailedobject

The models that failed to be imported through the Swagger-compliant data this time.

ErrorMsgstring

The error message.

error msg
ModelNamestring

The name of the model.

Region
GroupIdstring

The ID of the API group.

36d4bcfaec1946e1870d90b2d7519710
ModelSuccessarray<object>

The models that were imported through the Swagger-compliant data this time.

ApiImportModelSuccessobject

The models that were imported through the Swagger-compliant data this time.

ModelUidstring

The UID of the model.

d4bcfaec1946e1870d
ModelNamestring

The name of the model.

NewInstance
GroupIdstring

The ID of the API group.

b2d552ed90ca435b86f7bf8d45414793
ModelOperationstring

The model operation

CREATE

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "RequestId": "647CEF05-404C-4125-B3D7-44792EB77392",
  "Success": {
    "ApiImportSwaggerSuccess": [
      {
        "Path": "/http/get/mapping",
        "HttpMethod": "get",
        "ApiOperation": "CREATE",
        "ApiUid": "8e274ec61cf6468e83b68371956831cb"
      }
    ]
  },
  "Failed": {
    "ApiImportSwaggerFailed": [
      {
        "Path": "/http/get/mapping",
        "HttpMethod": "post",
        "ErrorMsg": "api already exists : apiUid ===> 8e274ec61cf6468e83b68371956831cb"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ModelFailed": {
    "ApiImportModelFailed": [
      {
        "ErrorMsg": "error msg",
        "ModelName": "Region",
        "GroupId": "36d4bcfaec1946e1870d90b2d7519710"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ModelSuccess": {
    "ApiImportModelSuccess": [
      {
        "ModelUid": "d4bcfaec1946e1870d",
        "ModelName": "NewInstance",
        "GroupId": "b2d552ed90ca435b86f7bf8d45414793",
        "ModelOperation": "CREATE"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Error codes

For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.

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