Creating a Grant

Function

This API enables you to create a grant to grant permissions on a CMK to a user so that the user can perform operations on the CMK.

Note

A Default Master Key (the alias suffix of which is /default) does not allow permission granting.

URI

  • URI format

    POST /v1.0/{project_id}/kms/create-grant

  • Parameter description

    Table 1 Parameter description

    Parameter

    Mandatory

    Type

    Description

    project_id

    Yes

    String

    Project ID

Requests

Table 2 Request parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

key_id

Yes

String

36-byte ID of a CMK that matches the regular expression ^[0-9a-z]{8}-[0-9a-z]{4}-[0-9a-z]{4}-[0-9a-z]{4}-[0-9a-z]{12}$

Example: 0d0466b0-e727-4d9c-b35d-f84bb474a37f

grantee_principal

Yes

String

Indicates the ID of the authorized user. The value is between 1 to 64 bytes and meets the regular expression "^[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,64}$".

Example: 0d0466b00d0466b00d0466b00d0466b0

operations

Yes

Array of strings

Permissions that can be granted

Values: create-datakey, create-datakey-without-plaintext, encrypt-datakey, decrypt-datakey, describe-key, create-grant, retire-grant

create-grant cannot be the only value.

name

No

String

Name of a grant which can be 1 to 255 characters in length and matches the regular expression ^[a-zA-Z0-9:/_-]{1,255}$

retiring_principal

No

String

Indicates the ID of the retiring user. The value is between 1 to 64 bytes and meets the regular expression "^[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,64}$".

Example: 0d0466b00d0466b00d0466b00d0466b0

sequence

No

String

36-byte serial number of a request message

Example: 919c82d4-8046-4722-9094-35c3c6524cff

Responses

Table 3 Response parameters

Parameter

Mandatory

Type

Description

grant_id

Yes

String

64-byte ID of a grant

Examples

The following example shows how to grant the describe-key, create-datakey, and encrypt-datakey permissions of CMK (ID: bb6a3d22-dc93-47ac-b5bd-88df7ad35f1e) to the user whose ID is 13gg44z4g2sglzk0egw0u726zoyzvrs8. The authorization name is my_grant, and the user (ID: 13gg44z4g2sglzk0egw0u726zoyzvrs8) can retire a grant.

  • Example request

    {
        "key_id": "bb6a3d22-dc93-47ac-b5bd-88df7ad35f1e",
        "operations": [
           "describe-key",
           "create-datakey",
           "encrypt-datakey"
         ],
         "grantee_principal":"13gg44z4g2sglzk0egw0u726zoyzvrs8",
         "name":"my_grant",
         "retiring_principal":"13gg44z4g2sglzk0egw0u726zoyzvrs8"
    }
    
  • Example response

    {
        "grant_id": "7c9a3286af4fcca5f0a385ad13e1d21a50e27b6dbcab50f37f30f93b8939827d"
    }
    

    or

    {
        "error": {
            "error_code": "KMS.XXXX",
            "error_msg": "XXX"
        }
    }
    

Status Codes

Table 4 lists the normal status code returned by the response.

Table 4 Status codes

Status Code

Status

Description

200

OK

Request processed successfully.

Exception status code. For details, see Status Codes.