This topic describes the syntax of IoT Platform API requests and provides a sample request.
Request syntax
You can send HTTP or HTTPS requests to IoT Platform.
Request syntax:
http://Endpoint/?Action=****&Parameters| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| Endpoint | The endpoint of IoT Platform. Format: iot.${RegionId}.aliyuncs.com. Replace ${RegionId} with the ID of the region where you activated IoT Platform. For more information about Alibaba Cloud region IDs, see Supported regions. |
| Action | The name of the API operation that you want to perform. For example, to publish a message to a specified topic, specify Action=Pub. |
| Parameters | The request parameters of the API operation. Separate multiple parameters with ampersands (&). Request parameters include common parameters and operation-specific parameters.Common parameters Common parameters specify the API version number and the authentication information. |
Sample request
2022-01-01 and an IoT Platform API of version
2018-01-20. In this example, the Pub operation of the version
2018-01-20 is called
to publish messages to a topic.
https://iot.cn-shanghai.aliyuncs.com/?Action=Pub
&Format=XML
&Version=2018-01-20
&Signature=Pc5WB8gok***1dgI%3D
&SignatureMethod=HMAC-SHA1
&SignatureNonce=15215528852396
&SignatureVersion=1.0
&AccessKeyId=LTAI4***iW5j3
&Timestamp=2017-07-19T12:00:00Z
&RegionId=cn-shanghai
...Debugging
Alibaba Cloud provides OpenAPI Explorer to simplify API usage. You can use OpenAPI Explorer to search for API operations, call API operations, and dynamically generate SDK sample code. OpenAPI Explorer dynamically generates the sample code of the operation for different SDKs. On the right side of the page, you can view the sample code of an SDK on the Example Code tab. On the Debugging Result tab, you can view the actual request URL and response in the JSON format.