cam — Cloud Access Management
cam · 2019-01-16

CreateGroup

POST

Create a user group.

Wire call

Converge Cloud is RPC over HTTP. There is one path — / — and the action travels in the X-TC-Action header. The /cam/CreateGroup path used in the OpenAPI document is a documentation convenience so each action is addressable; it is not a route on the server.

curl
curl -sS https://cam.api3.convergecloud.com/ \
  -H 'Authorization: TC3-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=<SecretId>/<YYYY-MM-DD>/cam/tc3_request, SignedHeaders=content-type;host;x-tc-action, Signature=<sig>' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8' \
  -H 'Host: cam.api3.convergecloud.com' \
  -H 'X-TC-Action: CreateGroup' \
  -H 'X-TC-Version: 2019-01-16' \
  -H 'X-TC-Timestamp: <unix-seconds>' \
  -H 'X-TC-Region: luzon' \
  -d '{}'

Request parameters

FieldTypeRequiredDescription
GroupNamestringYesUser Group name
RemarkstringNoUser Group description

Response

Fields are returned inside the Response envelope. Converge Cloud answers HTTP 200 for errors as well as successes, so read Response.Error rather than the status code — and test for the presence of that object, because Code is occasionally the empty string.

FieldTypeDescription
GroupIdintegerUser Group ID
RequestIdstringThe unique request ID, which is returned for each request. RequestId is required for locating a problem.
Success
{
  "Response": {
    "GroupId": …,
    "RequestId": "…"
  }
}
Error
{
  "Response": {
    "Error": { "Code": "…", "Message": "…" },
    "RequestId": "…"
  }
}

Try it

CredentialThe key never leaves this tab — it signs the request here. The signed request goes to /api-relay/cam.
Request bodyvalid JSONPOST cam.api3.convergecloud.com · CreateGroup

What failure looks like

Example error responses for this action. Match on Code.

Recorded error 1
{
  "Response": {
    "RequestId": "a2d02cc4-9b68-8e64-8635-c9ec6d73c41f",
    "Error": {
      "Code": "MissingParameter",
      "Message": "[Type 3002] : GroupId is required; "
    }
  }
}