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DescribeSecurityConfiguration

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DescribeSecurityConfiguration - Amazon EMR

Provides the details of a security configuration by returning the configuration JSON.

Request Syntax

{ "Name": "string" }

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.

Name

The name of the security configuration.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 10280.

Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\r\n\t]*

Required: Yes

Response Syntax

{ "CreationDateTime": number, "Name": "string", "SecurityConfiguration": "string" }

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.

CreationDateTime

The date and time the security configuration was created

Type: Timestamp

Name

The name of the security configuration.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 10280.

Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\r\n\t]*

SecurityConfiguration

The security configuration details in JSON format.

Type: String

Errors

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

InternalServerException

This exception occurs when there is an internal failure in the Amazon EMR service.

HTTP Status Code: 500

InvalidRequestException

This exception occurs when there is something wrong with user input.

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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