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Intelligent Media Services:CreateMediaConnectFlow

Last Updated:Dec 23, 2025

Creates a MediaConnect flow.

Operation description

  • The flow names cannot be duplicated in the same region.
  • Take note of the returned flow ID. You may reference it in other API operations.

Debugging

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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
ice:CreateMediaConnectFlowcreate
*All Resources
*
    none
none

Request parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescriptionExample
FlowNamestringYes

The flow name.

AliTestFlow
FlowRegionstringYes

The region in which the flow resides.

ap-southeast-1

Response parameters

ParameterTypeDescriptionExample
object

The response content.

Contentobject

The response body.

FlowIdstring

The flow ID.

34900dc6-90ec-4968-af3c-fcd87f231a5f
Descriptionstring

The returned message.

OK
RetCodeinteger

The returned error code. A value of 0 indicates the call is successful.

0
RequestIdstring

The ID of the request.

86D92F9D-65E8-58A2-85D1-9DEEECC172E8

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "Content": {
    "FlowId": "34900dc6-90ec-4968-af3c-fcd87f231a5f"
  },
  "Description": "OK",
  "RetCode": 0,
  "RequestId": "86D92F9D-65E8-58A2-85D1-9DEEECC172E8"
}

Error codes

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