ImportDevice - IoT Platform - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

Adds a device to an MQTT gateway product.

Usage notes

Before you call this operation, make sure that an MQTT gateway and the related product are created and the ProductKey of the product is obtained.

QPS limits

You can call this API operation up to 50 times per second per account.

Note The RAM users of an Alibaba Cloud account share the quota of the Alibaba Cloud account.

Debugging

OpenAPI Explorer automatically calculates the signature value. For your convenience, we recommend that you call this operation in OpenAPI Explorer. OpenAPI Explorer dynamically generates the sample code of the operation for different SDKs.

Request parameters


Parameter	Type	Required	Example	Description
Action	String	Yes	ImportDevice	The operation that you want to perform. Set the value to ImportDevice.
ProductKey	String	Yes	a1BwAGV****	The ProductKey of the product to which the device belongs.
DeviceName	String	Yes	light	The DeviceName of the device. The DeviceName must be 4 to 32 characters in length, and can contain letters, digits, hyphens (-), underscores (_), at signs (@), periods (.), and colons (:). The DeviceName must be unique in the product.
DeviceSecret	String	Yes	b4d43f7******10ba5e5	The DeviceSecret of the device. The DeviceSecret must be 1 to 32 characters in length, and can contain letters, digits, hyphens (-), underscores (_), at signs (@), periods (.), and colons (:).
Nickname	String	No	Campus light	The alias of the device. The alias must be 1 to 64 characters in length, and can contain letters, digits, and underscores (_). Note If you do not configure this parameter, IoT Platform does not generate an alias for the device.
Sn	String	No	QC4******001	The serial number (SN) of the device. The SN must be 1 to 64 characters in length, and can contain letters, digits, and underscores (_). Note If you do not configure this parameter, IoT Platform does not generate an SN for the device.
IotInstanceId	String	No	iot-1n8t****	The ID of the instance. You can obtain the ID of the instance on the Overview page in the IoT Platform console. Important If your instance has an ID, you must specify the ID for this parameter. Otherwise, the call fails. If no Overview page or ID is generated for your instance, you do not need to configure this parameter. For more information, see Overview.

In addition to the preceding operation-specific request parameters, you must configure common request parameters when you call this operation. For more information about common request parameters, see Common parameters.

Response parameters


Parameter	Type	Example	Description
Code	String	iot.system.SystemException	The error code returned if the call fails. For more information, see Error codes.
Data	Struct		The device information returned if the call is successful.
DeviceName	String	light	The DeviceName of the device. Important Keep the information confidential.
DeviceSecret	String	b4d43f7******10ba5e5	The DeviceSecret of the device. Important Keep the information confidential.
IotId	String	1O4YPNtRqB2anumz2Canp4GB7*****	The ID of the device. The ID is a unique identifier that is issued by IoT Platform to the device. Important Keep the information confidential.
Nickname	String	Campus light	The alias of the device. Note If you do not specify an alias for the device, this parameter is empty.
ProductKey	String	a1BwAGV****	The ProductKey of the product to which the device belongs.
Sn	String	QC4******001	The SN of the device. Note If you do not specify an SN for the device, this parameter is empty.
ErrorMessage	String	A system exception occurred.	The error message returned if the call fails.
RequestId	String	E4C0FF92-2A86-41DB-92D3-73B60310D25E	The ID of the request.
Success	Boolean	true	Indicates whether the call was successful. true: The call was successful. false: The call failed.

Examples

Sample requests

http(s)://iot.cn-shanghai.aliyuncs.com/?Action=ImportDevice
&DeviceName=device1
&DeviceSecret=b4d43f7******10ba5e5
&ProductKey=a1BwAGV****
&IotInstanceId=iot-1n8t****
&<Common request parameters>

Sample success responses

XML format

<ImportDeviceResponse>
  <RequestId>E4C0FF92-2A86-41DB-92D3-73B60310D25E</RequestId>
  <Data>
        <IotId>1O4YPNtRqB2anumz2Canp4GB7*****</IotId>
        <DeviceSecret>b4d43f7******10ba5e5</DeviceSecret>
        <Sn>QC4******001</Sn>
        <ProductKey>a1BwAGV****</ProductKey>
        <Nickname>Campus light</Nickname>
        <DeviceName>light</DeviceName>
  </Data>
  <Success>true</Success>
</ImportDeviceResponse>

JSON format

{
    "RequestId": "E4C0FF92-2A86-41DB-92D3-73B60310D25E",
    "Data": {
        "IotId": "1O4YPNtRqB2anumz2Canp4GB7*****",
        "DeviceSecret": "b4d43f7******10ba5e5",
        "Sn": "QC4******001",
        "ProductKey": "a1BwAGV****",
        "Nickname": "Campus light",
        "DeviceName": "light"
    },
    "Success": true
}

Error codes


HttpCode	Error code	Error message	Description
200	iot.device.CreateDeviceFailed	An error occurred while creating the device.	The error message returned because the system failed to create the device.
200	iot.device.AlreadyExistedDeviceName	The DeviceName already exists.	The error message returned because the DeviceName already exists.

For a list of error codes, see Service error codes.