AddCategory - ApsaraVideo VOD - Alibaba Cloud Documentation Center

Creates a video category.

Operation Description

A maximum of three category levels can be created. Each category can contain up to 100 subcategories.

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:
- The required resource types are displayed in bold characters.
- 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.

Operation	Access level	Resource type	Condition key	Associated operation
vod:AddCategory	Write	VOD acs:vod::{#accountId}:/*	none	none

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description	Example
CateName	string	Yes	The name of the category. The value can be up to 64 bytes in length. The string must be encoded in the UTF-8 format.	test
ParentId	long	No	The ID of the parent category. If you do not set this parameter, a level 1 category is generated by default. The parent category ID of a level 1 category is -1. NoteLevel 1 material categories are built in the system and cannot be changed. If you set the Type parameter to material, you must set the ParentId parameter.	100012****
Type	string	No	The type of the category. Valid values: default (default): default category material: material category	default

Response parameters

Parameter	Type	Description	Example
	object	The returned data.
RequestId	string	The ID of the request.	25818875-5F78-4AF6-D7393642CA58****
Category	object	The information about the video category.
Type	string	The type of the category. Valid values: default (default): default category material: material category	default
ParentId	long	The ID of the parent category. The parent category ID of a level 1 category is -1.	100012
CateName	string	The name of the category. The value can be up to 64 bytes in length. The string must be encoded in the UTF-8 format.	test
CateId	long	The ID of the video category.	10020
Level	long	The level of the category. A value of 0 indicates a level 1 category.	1

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "RequestId": "25818875-5F78-4AF6-D7393642CA58****",
  "Category": {
    "Type": "default",
    "ParentId": 100012,
    "CateName": "test",
    "CateId": 10020,
    "Level": 1
  }
}

Error codes

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

Common errors

The following table describes the common errors that this operation can return.

Error code	Error message	HTTP status code	Description
LevelExceededMax	The level of categories exceeded maximum.	400	The error message returned because the number of category levels exceeds the upper limit.
SubTotalExceededMax	The total of sub categories exceeded maximum.	400	The error message returned because the number of subcategories exceeds the upper limit.
InvalidCateId.NotFound	The CateId not exist.	404	The error message returned because the specified ID of the parent category does not exist.