Face API - v1.0
This API is currently available in:
- Australia East - australiaeast.api.cognitive.microsoft.com
- Brazil South - brazilsouth.api.cognitive.microsoft.com
- Canada Central - canadacentral.api.cognitive.microsoft.com
- Central India - centralindia.api.cognitive.microsoft.com
- Central US - centralus.api.cognitive.microsoft.com
- East Asia - eastasia.api.cognitive.microsoft.com
- East US - eastus.api.cognitive.microsoft.com
- East US 2 - eastus2.api.cognitive.microsoft.com
- France Central - francecentral.api.cognitive.microsoft.com
- Japan East - japaneast.api.cognitive.microsoft.com
- Japan West - japanwest.api.cognitive.microsoft.com
- Korea Central - koreacentral.api.cognitive.microsoft.com
- North Central US - northcentralus.api.cognitive.microsoft.com
- North Europe - northeurope.api.cognitive.microsoft.com
- South Africa North - southafricanorth.api.cognitive.microsoft.com
- South Central US - southcentralus.api.cognitive.microsoft.com
- Southeast Asia - southeastasia.api.cognitive.microsoft.com
- UK South - uksouth.api.cognitive.microsoft.com
- West Central US - westcentralus.api.cognitive.microsoft.com
- West Europe - westeurope.api.cognitive.microsoft.com
- West US - westus.api.cognitive.microsoft.com
- West US 2 - westus2.api.cognitive.microsoft.com
- UAE North - uaenorth.api.cognitive.microsoft.com
LargePersonGroup Person - Update
Update name or userData of a person.
Http Method
PATCHSelect the testing console in the region where you created your resource:
West US West US 2 East US East US 2 West Central US South Central US West Europe North Europe Southeast Asia East Asia Australia East Brazil South Canada Central Central India UK South Japan East Central US France Central Korea Central Japan West North Central US South Africa North UAE North Norway East West US 3 Jio India WestRequest URL
Request parameters
string
largePersonGroupId of the target large person group.
string
personId of the target person.
Request headers
string
Media type of the body sent to the API.
string
Subscription key which provides access to this API. Found in your Cognitive Services accounts.
Request body
JSON fields in request body:
Fields | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
name | String | Name of the created person, maximum length is 128. |
userData (optional) | String | Optional user defined data for the person. Length should not exceed 16KB. |
{
"name": "person-name",
"userData": "User-provided data attached to the person."
}
Response 200
A successful call returns an empty response body.
Response 400
Error code and message returned in JSON:
Error Code | Error Message Description |
---|---|
BadArgument | Large person group ID is invalid. |
BadArgument | 'name' is empty. |
BadArgument | 'name' is too long. |
BadArgument | 'userData' is too long. |
BadArgument | JSON parsing error. |
{
"error": {
"code": "BadArgument",
"message": "'name' is too long."
}
}
Response 401
Error code and message returned in JSON:
Error Code | Error Message Description |
---|---|
Unspecified | Access denied due to invalid subscription key. Make sure you are subscribed to an API you are trying to call and provide the right key. |
{
"error": {
"code": "Unspecified",
"message": "Access denied due to invalid subscription key. Make sure you are subscribed to an API you are trying to call and provide the right key."
}
}
Response 403
Person number reached maximum limit.
Error code and message returned in JSON:
Error Code | Error Message Description |
---|---|
QuotaExceeded | Person number reached large person group level limit. |
QuotaExceeded | Person number reached subscription level limit. |
{
"error": {
"code": "QuotaExceeded",
"message": "Person number reached subscription level limit."
}
}
Response 404
Error code and message returned in JSON:
Error Code | Error Message Description |
---|---|
PersonNotFound | Person is not found. |
PersonNotFound | Person ID is invalid. |
LargePersonGroupNotFound | Large person group is not found. |
LargePersonGroupNotFound | Large person group ID is invalid. |
{
"error": {
"code": "PersonNotFound",
"message": "Person is not found."
}
}
Response 415
Unsupported media type error. Only "application/json" is valid for this API.
{
"error": {
"code": "BadArgument",
"message": "Invalid Media Type."
}
}
Response 429
{
"error": {
"statusCode": 429,
"message": "Rate limit is exceeded. Try again in 26 seconds."
}
}
Code samples
@ECHO OFF
curl -v -X PATCH "https://francecentral.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/face/v1.0/largepersongroups/{largePersonGroupId}/persons/{personId}"
-H "Content-Type: application/json"
-H "Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: {subscription key}"
--data-ascii "{body}"
using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;
namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
static class Program
{
static void Main()
{
MakeRequest();
Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
Console.ReadLine();
}
static async void MakeRequest()
{
var client = new HttpClient();
var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);
// Request headers
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");
var uri = "https://francecentral.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/face/v1.0/largepersongroups/{largePersonGroupId}/persons/{personId}?" + queryString;
}
}
}
// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
public class JavaSample
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();
try
{
URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://francecentral.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/face/v1.0/largepersongroups/{largePersonGroupId}/persons/{personId}");
URI uri = builder.build();
HttpPatch request = new HttpPatch(uri);
request.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
request.setHeader("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");
// Request body
StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
request.setEntity(reqEntity);
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
if (entity != null)
{
System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
}
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>JSSample</title>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
var params = {
// Request parameters
};
$.ajax({
url: "https://francecentral.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/face/v1.0/largepersongroups/{largePersonGroupId}/persons/{personId}?" + $.param(params),
beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
// Request headers
xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Content-Type","application/json");
xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key","{subscription key}");
},
type: "PATCH",
// Request body
data: "{body}",
})
.done(function(data) {
alert("success");
})
.fail(function() {
alert("error");
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
NSString* path = @"https://francecentral.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/face/v1.0/largepersongroups/{largePersonGroupId}/persons/{personId}";
NSArray* array = @[
// Request parameters
@"entities=true",
];
NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];
NSLog(@"%@", path);
NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
[_request setHTTPMethod:@"PATCH"];
// Request headers
[_request setValue:@"application/json" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
[_request setValue:@"{subscription key}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key"];
// Request body
[_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
NSURLResponse *response = nil;
NSError *error = nil;
NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];
if (nil != error)
{
NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
}
else
{
NSError* error = nil;
NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
if (nil != _connectionData)
{
json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
}
if (error || !json)
{
NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
}
NSLog(@"%@", json);
_connectionData = nil;
}
[pool drain];
return 0;
}
<?php
// This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';
$request = new Http_Request2('https://francecentral.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/face/v1.0/largepersongroups/{largePersonGroupId}/persons/{personId}');
$url = $request->getUrl();
$headers = array(
// Request headers
'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key' => '{subscription key}',
);
$request->setHeader($headers);
$parameters = array(
// Request parameters
);
$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);
$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_PATCH);
// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");
try
{
$response = $request->send();
echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
echo $ex;
}
?>
########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64
headers = {
# Request headers
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
}
params = urllib.urlencode({
})
try:
conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('francecentral.api.cognitive.microsoft.com')
conn.request("PATCH", "/face/v1.0/largepersongroups/{largePersonGroupId}/persons/{personId}?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################
########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64
headers = {
# Request headers
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
}
params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
})
try:
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('francecentral.api.cognitive.microsoft.com')
conn.request("PATCH", "/face/v1.0/largepersongroups/{largePersonGroupId}/persons/{personId}?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################
require 'net/http'
uri = URI('https://francecentral.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/face/v1.0/largepersongroups/{largePersonGroupId}/persons/{personId}')
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form({
})
request = Net::HTTP::Patch.new(uri.request_uri)
# Request headers
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
# Request headers
request['Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key'] = '{subscription key}'
# Request body
request.body = "{body}"
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
http.request(request)
end
puts response.body