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Elastic Compute Service:DescribePrefixLists

Last Updated:Jan 17, 2025

Queries the information of one or more prefix lists.

Operation description

You can specify the AddressFamily, PrefixListId.N, and PrefixListName request parameters in the request. Specified parameters have logical AND relations. Only the parameters that you set are included in the filter conditions.

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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
ecs:DescribePrefixListsget
*PrefixList
acs:ecs:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:prefixlist/{#PrefixListId}
    none
none

Request parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescriptionExample
RegionIdstringYes

The region ID. You can call the DescribeRegions operation to query the most recent region list.

cn-chengdu
PrefixListNamestringNo

The name of the prefix list.

PrefixListNameSample
NextTokenstringNo

The pagination token that is used in the request to retrieve a new page of results. Set the value to the NextToken value returned in the last call to this operation. Leave this parameter empty the first time you call this operation.

AAAAAdDWBF2****
MaxResultsintegerNo

The number of entries per page.

Valid values: 1 to 100.

Default value: 10.

10
AddressFamilystringNo

The IP address family. Valid values:

  • IPv4
  • IPv6

This parameter is empty by default, which indicates that all prefix lists are queried.

IPv4
PrefixListIdarrayNo

The IDs of prefix lists. Valid values of N: 0 to 100.

stringNo

The ID of prefix list N. Valid values of N: 0 to 100.

pl-x1j1k5ykzqlixdcy****

Response parameters

ParameterTypeDescriptionExample
object
NextTokenstring

The query token that is returned in this call. If the return value is empty, no more data is returned.

AAAAAdDWBF2****
RequestIdstring

The request ID.

38793DB8-A4B2-4AEC-BFD3-111234E9188D
PrefixListsarray<object>

Details about the prefix lists.

PrefixListobject
CreationTimestring

The time when the prefix list was created.

2021-02-20T07:11Z
AssociationCountinteger

The number of associated resources.

1
MaxEntriesinteger

The maximum number of entries that the prefix list can contain.

20
Descriptionstring

The description of the prefix list.

This is description.
AddressFamilystring

The IP address family of the prefix list. Valid values:

  • IPv4
  • IPv6
IPv4
PrefixListNamestring

The name of the prefix list.

PrefixListNameSample
PrefixListIdstring

The ID of the prefix list.

pl-x1j1k5ykzqlixdcy****

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "NextToken": "AAAAAdDWBF2****",
  "RequestId": "38793DB8-A4B2-4AEC-BFD3-111234E9188D",
  "PrefixLists": {
    "PrefixList": [
      {
        "CreationTime": "2021-02-20T07:11Z",
        "AssociationCount": 1,
        "MaxEntries": 20,
        "Description": "This is description.",
        "AddressFamily": "IPv4",
        "PrefixListName": "PrefixListNameSample",
        "PrefixListId": "pl-x1j1k5ykzqlixdcy****"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Error codes

HTTP status codeError codeError messageDescription
400InvalidParameter%sThe specified parameter is invalid.
400LimitExceed.PrefixListIdThe specified number of PrefixListId exceeds the limit.The number of specified prefix list IDs exceeds the upper limit.
404InvalidRegionId.NotFoundThe specified RegionId does not exist.The specified region ID does not exist.

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

Change history

Change timeSummary of changesOperation
2025-01-02API Description Update. The Error code has changedView Change Details
2023-11-13The Error code has changedView Change Details