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Intelligent Media Services:AddCategory

Last Updated:Aug 05, 2026

Creates a media asset category.

Operation description

Categories support up to three levels, and each level supports up to 100 subcategories.

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RAM authorization

The table below describes the authorization required to call this API. You can define it in a Resource Access Management (RAM) policy. The table's columns are detailed below:

  • Action: The actions can be used in the Action element of RAM permission policy statements to grant permissions to perform the operation.

  • API: The API that you can call to perform the action.

  • Access level: The predefined level of access granted for each API. Valid values: create, list, get, update, and delete.

  • Resource type: The type of the resource that supports authorization to perform the action. It indicates if the action supports resource-level permission. The specified resource must be compatible with the action. Otherwise, the policy will be ineffective.

    • For APIs with resource-level permissions, required resource types are marked with an asterisk (*). Specify the corresponding Alibaba Cloud Resource Name (ARN) in the Resource element of the policy.

    • For APIs without resource-level permissions, it is shown as All Resources. Use an asterisk (*) in the Resource element of the policy.

  • Condition key: The condition keys defined by the service. The key allows for granular control, applying to either actions alone or actions associated with specific resources. In addition to service-specific condition keys, Alibaba Cloud provides a set of common condition keys applicable across all RAM-supported services.

  • Dependent action: The dependent actions required to run the action. To complete the action, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform all dependent actions.

Action

Access level

Resource type

Condition key

Dependent action

ice:AddCategory

create

*All Resource

*

None None

Request parameters

Parameter

Type

Required

Description

Example

CateName

string

Yes

The category name.

  • The maximum length is 64 bytes.

  • UTF-8 encoding.

Third-level subcategory

ParentId

integer

No

The parent category ID.

5

Type

string

No

The category type. Valid values:

  • default (default): audio, video, and image category.

  • material: short video material category.

default

Response elements

Element

Type

Description

Example

object

RequestId

string

The request ID.

****63E8B7C7-4812-46AD-0FA56029AC86****

Category

object

The media asset category information.

Type

string

The category type. Valid values:

  • default (default): audio, video, and image category.

  • material: short video material category.

default

ParentId

integer

The parent category ID. If the ParentId parameter is set to empty or a value less than 1, the default return value is -1, which indicates that the created category is a root directory.

-1

CateName

string

The category name.

Category 1

CateId

integer

The ID of the created category.

45

Level

integer

The category level. The first-level category has a level of 0, the second-level category has a level of 1, and the third-level category has a level of 2.

0

Examples

Success response

JSON format

{
  "RequestId": "****63E8B7C7-4812-46AD-0FA56029AC86****",
  "Category": {
    "Type": "default",
    "ParentId": -1,
    "CateName": "Category 1",
    "CateId": 45,
    "Level": 0
  }
}

Error codes

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Release notes

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