/2012-09-25/roleTests

http://elastictranscoder.{region}.amazonaws.com/2012-09-25/roleTests

<p>The TestRole operation tests the IAM role used to create the pipeline.</p> <p>The <code>TestRole</code> action lets you determine whether the IAM role you are using has sufficient permissions to let Elastic Transcoder perform tasks associated with the transcoding process. The action attempts to assume the specified IAM role, checks read access to the input and output buckets, and tries to send a test notification to Amazon SNS topics that you specify.</p>

Access Token Required: API Key

Body Params

Rolestringrequired

The IAM Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for the role that you want Elastic Transcoder to test.

Topicsarrayrequired

The ARNs of one or more Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topics that you want the action to send a test notification to.

InputBucketstringrequired

The Amazon S3 bucket that contains media files to be transcoded. The action attempts to read from this bucket.

OutputBucketstringrequired

The Amazon S3 bucket that Elastic Transcoder writes transcoded media files to. The action attempts to read from this bucket.

Responses

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "id": "abc123",
    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
    "message": "Invalid request parameters"
  }
}

Language

CredentialsAPI KEY

API Key

Enter token below to save for later

cURL Request

1curl --request POST \
2     --url 'http://elastictranscoder.{region}.amazonaws.com/2012-09-25/roleTests' \
3     --header 'accept: application/json' \
4     --header 'content-type: application/json'

Response

1{
2  "success": true,
3  "data": {
4    "id": "abc123",
5    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
6  }
7}

POST