# Manage & Operate › Identity & Access Management › Policies › References API

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> 2 operations of the OVHcloud API. Calls carry `authorization: Bearer $OVH_TOKEN`; the EU host is shown, Canada and the United States answer on api.ca.ovhcloud.com and api.us.ovhcloud.com.

Page: https://developers.eu.ovhcloud.com/reference/manage-operate/identity-access-management/policies/references/

OpenAPI v1: https://api.eu.ovhcloud.com/1.0/__schemas/developer-hub-navigation/manage-operate/identity-access-management/policies/references.json?format=openapi3
OpenAPI v2: https://api.eu.ovhcloud.com/v2/__schemas/developer-hub-navigation/manage-operate/identity-access-management/policies/references.json?format=openapi3

## Operations

- `GET /iam/reference/action` — List actions
- `GET /iam/reference/resource/type` — List resource types

## List actions

`GET /v2/iam/reference/action`

Link: https://developers.eu.ovhcloud.com/reference/manage-operate/identity-access-management/policies/references/#get-iam-reference-action

**Status:** Stable production version

Returns the IAM actions that can be used in policies. Set `resourceType` to keep only the actions of given resource types.

### Parameters

| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `X-Pagination-Cursor` | header | string |  | Pagination cursor |
| `X-Pagination-Size` | header | integer |  | Pagination size |
| `resourceType` | query | string[] |  | Filter actions for specific resource types |

### Responses

| Status | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 | iam.reference.Action[] | successful operation |

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `action` | string | read-only | Name of the action |
| `categories` | string[] | read-only | List of categories the action belongs to |
| `description` | string | read-only | Description of the action |
| `hasQueryParameters` | boolean | read-only | Whether you can use the action with additional parameters |
| `resourceType` | string | read-only | Resource type related to the action |

```json
[
  {
    "action": "string",
    "categories": [
      "string"
    ],
    "description": "string",
    "hasQueryParameters": true,
    "resourceType": "string"
  }
]
```

### Example

```bash
curl -X GET \
  "https://api.eu.ovhcloud.com/v2/iam/reference/action" \
  -H "accept: application/json" \
  -H "authorization: Bearer $OVH_TOKEN"
```

```python
'''
First, install the latest release of Python wrapper: $ pip install ovh
'''
import json
import ovh

# Instantiate an OVH Client.
# You can generate new credentials with full access to your account on
# the token creation page (https://api.ovh.com/createToken/index.cgi?GET=/*&PUT=/*&POST=/*&DELETE=/*)
client = ovh.Client(
	endpoint='ovh-eu',               # Endpoint of API OVH (List of available endpoints: https://github.com/ovh/python-ovh#2-configure-your-application)
	application_key='xxxxxxxxxx',    # Application Key
	application_secret='xxxxxxxxxx', # Application Secret
	consumer_key='xxxxxxxxxx',       # Consumer Key
)

result = client.get("/v2/iam/reference/action")

# Pretty print
print(json.dumps(result, indent=4))
```

```php
<?php
/**
 * First, download the latest release of PHP wrapper on github
 * And include this script into the folder with extracted files
 */
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
use \Ovh\Api;

/**
 * Instantiate an OVH Client.
 * You can generate new credentials with full access to your account on
 * the token creation page (https://api.ovh.com/createToken/index.cgi?GET=/*&PUT=/*&POST=/*&DELETE=/*)
 */
$ovh = new Api('xxxxxxxxxx',  // Application Key
               'xxxxxxxxxx',  // Application Secret
               'ovh-eu',      // Endpoint of API OVH (List of available endpoints: https://github.com/ovh/python-ovh#2-configure-your-application)
               'xxxxxxxxxx'); // Consumer Key

$result = $ovh->get("/v2/iam/reference/action");

print_r($result);
?>
```

## List resource types

`GET /v2/iam/reference/resource/type`

Link: https://developers.eu.ovhcloud.com/reference/manage-operate/identity-access-management/policies/references/#get-iam-reference-resource-type

**Status:** Stable production version

Returns the resource types known to IAM.

### Parameters

| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `X-Pagination-Cursor` | header | string |  | Pagination cursor |
| `X-Pagination-Size` | header | integer |  | Pagination size |

### Responses

| Status | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 | string[] | successful operation |

```json
[
  "string"
]
```

### Example

```bash
curl -X GET \
  "https://api.eu.ovhcloud.com/v2/iam/reference/resource/type" \
  -H "accept: application/json" \
  -H "authorization: Bearer $OVH_TOKEN"
```

```python
'''
First, install the latest release of Python wrapper: $ pip install ovh
'''
import json
import ovh

# Instantiate an OVH Client.
# You can generate new credentials with full access to your account on
# the token creation page (https://api.ovh.com/createToken/index.cgi?GET=/*&PUT=/*&POST=/*&DELETE=/*)
client = ovh.Client(
	endpoint='ovh-eu',               # Endpoint of API OVH (List of available endpoints: https://github.com/ovh/python-ovh#2-configure-your-application)
	application_key='xxxxxxxxxx',    # Application Key
	application_secret='xxxxxxxxxx', # Application Secret
	consumer_key='xxxxxxxxxx',       # Consumer Key
)

result = client.get("/v2/iam/reference/resource/type")

# Pretty print
print(json.dumps(result, indent=4))
```

```php
<?php
/**
 * First, download the latest release of PHP wrapper on github
 * And include this script into the folder with extracted files
 */
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
use \Ovh\Api;

/**
 * Instantiate an OVH Client.
 * You can generate new credentials with full access to your account on
 * the token creation page (https://api.ovh.com/createToken/index.cgi?GET=/*&PUT=/*&POST=/*&DELETE=/*)
 */
$ovh = new Api('xxxxxxxxxx',  // Application Key
               'xxxxxxxxxx',  // Application Secret
               'ovh-eu',      // Endpoint of API OVH (List of available endpoints: https://github.com/ovh/python-ovh#2-configure-your-application)
               'xxxxxxxxxx'); // Consumer Key

$result = $ovh->get("/v2/iam/reference/resource/type");

print_r($result);
?>
```