---
title: "Get a list of Access Control Policies"
method: POST
path: "/access_control_policies/list"
tags: ["access_control_policies"]
---

# Get a list of Access Control Policies

`POST /access_control_policies/list`

This operation gets a list of Access Control Policies, allowing for sorting and pagination. Note: Entities that have not been created successfully are not listed.

## Request body

- AccessControlPolicyListMetadata — All api calls that return a list will have this metadata block as input
  - `filter` string — The filter in FIQL syntax used for the results.
  - `kind` string — The kind name
  - `sort_order` string — The sort order in which results are returned
  - `offset` integer — Offset from the start of the entity list
  - `length` integer — The number of records to retrieve relative to the offset
  - `sort_attribute` string — The attribute to perform sort on

## Response `200`

Success

- AccessControlPolicyListIntentResponse — Response object for intentful operation of access_control_policys
  - `entities` AccessControlPolicyIntentResource[]
    - `status` AccessControlPolicyDefStatus — Access Control Policy status definition.
      - `state` string — The state of the Access Control Policy entity.
      - `message_list` MessageResource[]
        - `message` string, required — If state is ERROR, a message describing the error.
        - `reason` string, required — If state is ERROR, a machine-readable snake-cased string.
        - `details` object — Custom key-value details relevant to the status.
      - `name` string — Name of the Access Control Policy.
      - `resources` object, required
        - `role_reference` RoleReference — The reference to a role
          - `kind` string, required — The kind name
          - `name` string
          - `uuid` string, UUID, required
        - `user_reference_list` UserReference[] — The User(s) being assigned a given role.
          - `kind` string, required — The kind name
          - `name` string
          - `uuid` string, UUID, required
        - `filter_list` object — The list of filters, which define the entities.
          - `context_list` Filter[] — The list of context filters. These are OR filters. The scope-expression-list defines the context, and the filter works in conjunction with the entity-expression-list. Note - the absence of a scope expression in a filter implies global context.
            - `entity_filter_expression_list` EntityFilterExpression[], required — A list of Entity filter expressions.
              - …
            - `scope_filter_expression_list` ScopeFilterExpression[] — A list of Scope filter expressions.
              - …
      - `description` string — The description of the association of a role to a user in a given context.
    - `api_version` string
    - `metadata` AccessControlPolicyMetadata, required — The access_control_policy kind metadata
      - `last_update_time` string, date-time — UTC date and time in RFC-3339 format when access_control_policy was last updated
      - `kind` string, required — The kind name
      - `uuid` string, UUID — access_control_policy uuid
      - `spec_version` integer — Version number of the latest spec.
      - `creation_time` string, date-time — UTC date and time in RFC-3339 format when access_control_policy was created
      - `spec_hash` string — Hash of the spec. This will be returned from server.
      - `should_force_translate` boolean — Applied on Prism Central only. Indicate whether force to translate the spec of the fanout request to fit the target cluster API schema.
      - `owner_reference` UserReference — The reference to a user
        - `kind` string, required — The kind name
        - `name` string
        - `uuid` string, UUID, required
      - `categories` object — Categories for the access_control_policy
      - `name` string — access_control_policy name
  - `api_version` string, required
  - `metadata` AccessControlPolicyListMetadataOutput, required — All api calls that return a list will have this metadata block
    - `filter` string — The filter used for the results
    - `kind` string — The kind name
    - `sort_order` string — The sort order in which results are returned
    - `offset` integer — Offset from the start of the entity list
    - `total_matches` integer — Total matches found
    - `length` integer — The number of records retrieved relative to the offset
    - `sort_attribute` string — The attribute to perform sort on

## Other responses

- `default` — Internal Error

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