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Request Response Group

The Request response group returns all of the parameters and their values that were submitted in a request. Use this information to debug requests.

All ECS operations return this response group by default. There can be up to ten parameters in each request.

Relevant Operations

Operations that can use this response group include:

All ECS operations use the Request response group by default.

Response Elements

The following table describes the elements returned by Request. These elements are returned in all ECS responses because the Request response group is a default response group for all ECS operations. The elements on the left side of a slash mark are the parents of the elements on the right side of the slash mark.

Response Element	Ancestry	Definition
`Code`	Errors/Error/Code	Error code
`IsValid`	Request/IsValid	Boolean value that specifies whether the request syntax was correct.
`Message`	Errors/Error/Message	Error message
`Name`	Arguments/Argument/Name	The name of a parameter passed in the request.
`RequestId`	OperationRequest/RequestId	A number that uniquely identifies a request
`UserAgent`	OperationRequest/UserAgent	The client application, for example, web browsers, search engine crawlers, mobile phones, screen readers and braille browsers. The text associated with UserAgent contains the application name, version, host operating system, and language.
`Value`	Arguments/Argument/Value	The value of a parameter passed in the request.

Parent Response Group

The following response groups are parent response groups of Request.

None

Child Response Group

The following response groups are child response groups of Request.

None

Sample REST Use Case

The following request was used to illustrate the XML response elements returned by Request.

http://ecs.amazonaws.com/onca/xml?
Service=AWSECommerceService&
AWSAccessKeyId=[Access Key ID]&
Operation=ItemSearch&
SearchIndex=Books&
Title=Harry%20Potter

Sample Response Snippet

The following response snippet shows the elements returned by Request.

<OperationRequest>
  <HTTPHeaders>
    <Header Name="UserAgent" Value="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; FunWebProducts; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)" /> 
  </HTTPHeaders>
  <RequestId>00KE1E5MWR4KXX0V1WYD</RequestId> 
  <Arguments>
    <Argument Name="SearchIndex" Value="Books" /> 
    <Argument Name="Service" Value="AWSECommerceService" /> 
    <Argument Name="Title" Value="Harry Potter" /> 
    <Argument Name="Operation" Value="ItemSearch" /> 
    <Argument Name="AWSAccessKeyId" Value="[VALUE]" /> 
    <Argument Name="Version" Value="2007-04-04" /> 
  </Arguments>
  <RequestProcessingTime>
    0.3419508934021
  </RequestProcessingTime> 
</OperationRequest>
  <Items>
    <Request>
      <IsValid>True</IsValid> 
      <ItemSearchRequest>
        <SearchIndex>Books</SearchIndex> 
        <Title>Harry Potter</Title> 
      </ItemSearchRequest>
    </Request>