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GetSecretValue

Last updated: 2023-09-18 17:15:28

1. API Description

Domain name for API request: ssm.tencentcloudapi.com.

For user-defined credentials, this API is used to get the plaintext information of a credential by specifying the credential name and version.
For Tencent Cloud service credentials such as MySQL credentials, this API is used to get the plaintext information of a previously rotated credential by specifying the credential name and historical version number. If you want to get the plaintext of the credential version currently in use, you need to specify the version number as SSM_Current.

A maximum of 300 requests can be initiated per second for this API.

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2. Input Parameters

The following request parameter list only provides API request parameters and some common parameters. For the complete common parameter list, see Common Request Parameters.

Parameter Name Required Type Description
Action Yes String Common Params. The value used for this API: GetSecretValue.
Version Yes String Common Params. The value used for this API: 2019-09-23.
Region No String Common Params. This parameter is not required for this API.
SecretName Yes String Name of a Secret.
VersionId Yes String Specifies the version number of the corresponding credential.
For Tencent Cloud service credentials such as MySQL credentials, this API is used to get the plaintext information of a previously rotated credential by specifying the credential name and historical version number. If you want to get the plaintext of the credential version currently in use, you need to specify the version number as SSM_Current.

3. Output Parameters

Parameter Name Type Description
SecretName String Name of the Secret.
VersionId String ID of the Secret version.
SecretBinary String When creating a credential (CreateSecret), if you specify binary data, this field will be the Base64-encoded returned result. The application needs to Base64-decode the result to get the original data.
Either SecretBinary or SecretString cannot be empty.
SecretString String When creating a credential (CreateSecret), if you specify general text data, this field will be the returned result.
Either SecretBinary or SecretString cannot be empty.
RequestId String The unique request ID, which is returned for each request. RequestId is required for locating a problem.

4. Example

Example1 Obtaining the plaintext of a Secret

This example shows you how to obtain the plaintext of a Secret.

Input Example

POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: ssm.tencentcloudapi.com
Content-Type: application/json
X-TC-Action: GetSecretValue
<Common request parameters>

{
    "VersionId": "v1.0",
    "SecretName": "test_secret"
}

Output Example

{
    "Response": {
        "RequestId": "b8e6b67f-3ca7-4341-b4fa-a372bdf4e11c",
        "SecretName": "test_secret",
        "VersionId": "v1.0",
        "SecretBinary": "",
        "SecretString": "test"
    }
}

5. Developer Resources

SDK

TencentCloud API 3.0 integrates SDKs that support various programming languages to make it easier for you to call APIs.

Command Line Interface

6. Error Code

The following only lists the error codes related to the API business logic. For other error codes, see Common Error Codes.

Error Code Description
FailedOperation Operation failed.
FailedOperation.AccessKmsError KMS operation failed.
InternalError An internal error occurred.
InvalidParameterValue The parameter value is invalid.
OperationDenied.RoleNotExist The role does not exist.
ResourceNotFound The resource does not exist.
ResourceNotFound.SecretNotExist The secret does not exist.
ResourceUnavailable.NotPurchased The service is not purchased.
ResourceUnavailable.ResourceDisabled The Secret is disabled.
ResourceUnavailable.ResourcePendingDeleted The Secret is in PendingDelete status.
ResourceUnavailable.ResourceUninitialized The credential has not been initialized.
UnauthorizedOperation The operation is unauthorized.