GetPolicyVersion
Retrieves information about the specified version of the specified managed policy, including the policy document.
Note
Policies returned by this operation are URL-encoded compliant
with RFC 3986decode method of the java.net.URLDecoder utility class in
the Java SDK. Other languages and SDKs provide similar functionality, and some SDKs do this decoding
automatically.
To list the available versions for a policy, use ListPolicyVersions.
This operation retrieves information about managed policies. To retrieve information about an inline policy that is embedded in a user, group, or role, use GetUserPolicy, GetGroupPolicy, or GetRolePolicy.
For more information about the types of policies, see Managed policies and inline policies in the IAM User Guide.
For more information about managed policy versions, see Versioning for managed policies in the IAM User Guide.
Request Parameters
For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.
- PolicyArn
-
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the managed policy that you want information about.
For more information about ARNs, see Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) in the AWS General Reference.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 20. Maximum length of 2048.
Required: Yes
- VersionId
-
Identifies the policy version to retrieve.
This parameter allows (through its regex pattern
) a string of characters that consists of the lowercase letter 'v' followed by one or two digits, and optionally followed by a period '.' and a string of letters and digits. Type: String
Pattern:
v[1-9][0-9]*(\.[A-Za-z0-9-]*)?Required: Yes
Response Elements
The following element is returned by the service.
- PolicyVersion
-
A structure containing details about the policy version.
Type: PolicyVersion object
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.
- InvalidInput
-
The request was rejected because an invalid or out-of-range value was supplied for an input parameter.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- NoSuchEntity
-
The request was rejected because it referenced a resource entity that does not exist. The error message describes the resource.
HTTP Status Code: 404
- ServiceFailure
-
The request processing has failed because of an unknown error, exception or failure.
HTTP Status Code: 500
Examples
Example
This example illustrates one usage of GetPolicyVersion.
Sample Request
https://iam.amazonaws.com/?Action=GetPolicyVersion
&PolicyArn=arn:aws:iam::123456789012:policy/S3-read-only-example-bucket
&VersionId=v1
&Version=2010-05-08
&AUTHPARAMSSample Response
<GetPolicyVersionResponse xmlns="https://iam.amazonaws.com/doc/2010-05-08/">
<GetPolicyVersionResult>
<PolicyVersion>
<Document>
{"Version":"2012-10-17","Statement":[{"Effect":"Allow","Action":["s3:Get*","s3:List*"],
"Resource":["arn:aws:s3:::EXAMPLE-BUCKET","arn:aws:s3:::EXAMPLE-BUCKET/*"]}]}
</Document>
<IsDefaultVersion>true</IsDefaultVersion>
<VersionId>v1</VersionId>
<CreateDate>2014-09-15T20:31:47Z</CreateDate>
</PolicyVersion>
</GetPolicyVersionResult>
<ResponseMetadata>
<RequestId>d472f28e-3d23-11e4-a4a0-cffb9EXAMPLE</RequestId>
</ResponseMetadata>
</GetPolicyVersionResponse>See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
