GetThingShadow - Amazon IoT
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GetThingShadow

Gets the shadow for the specified thing.

Requires permission to access the GetThingShadow action.

For more information, see GetThingShadow in the Amazon IoT Developer Guide.

Request Syntax

GET /things/thingName/shadow?name=shadowName HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

shadowName

The name of the shadow.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 64.

Pattern: [$a-zA-Z0-9:_-]+

thingName

The name of the thing.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: [a-zA-Z0-9:_-]+

Required: Yes

Request Body

The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax

HTTP/1.1 200 payload

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The response returns the following as the HTTP body.

payload

The state information, in JSON format.

Errors

InternalFailureException

An unexpected error has occurred.

HTTP Status Code: 500

InvalidRequestException

The request is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

MethodNotAllowedException

The specified combination of HTTP verb and URI is not supported.

HTTP Status Code: 405

ResourceNotFoundException

The specified resource does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceUnavailableException

The service is temporarily unavailable.

HTTP Status Code: 503

ThrottlingException

The rate exceeds the limit.

HTTP Status Code: 429

UnauthorizedException

You are not authorized to perform this operation.

HTTP Status Code: 401

UnsupportedDocumentEncodingException

The document encoding is not supported.

HTTP Status Code: 415

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following: