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CreateInstanceProfile - AWS Device Farm Documentation

CreateInstanceProfile

Creates a profile that can be applied to one or more private fleet device instances.

Request Syntax

{ "description": "string", "excludeAppPackagesFromCleanup": [ "string" ], "name": "string", "packageCleanup": boolean, "rebootAfterUse": boolean }

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

description

The description of your instance profile.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 16384.

Required: No

excludeAppPackagesFromCleanup

An array of strings that specifies the list of app packages that should not be cleaned up from the device after a test run.

The list of packages is considered only if you set packageCleanup to true.

Type: Array of strings

Required: No

name

The name of your instance profile.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.

Required: Yes

packageCleanup

When set to true, Device Farm removes app packages after a test run. The default value is false for private devices.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

rebootAfterUse

When set to true, Device Farm reboots the instance after a test run. The default value is true.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

Response Syntax

{ "instanceProfile": { "arn": "string", "description": "string", "excludeAppPackagesFromCleanup": [ "string" ], "name": "string", "packageCleanup": boolean, "rebootAfterUse": boolean } }

Response Elements

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

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

instanceProfile

An object that contains information about your instance profile.

Type: InstanceProfile object

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

ArgumentException

An invalid argument was specified.

HTTP Status Code: 400

LimitExceededException

A limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 400

NotFoundException

The specified entity was not found.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ServiceAccountException

There was a problem with the service account.

HTTP Status Code: 400

See Also

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

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