def get_categories(self, job_id, category_id=None, body=None, params=None):
        """
        `<http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/ml-get-category.html>`_

        :arg job_id: The name of the job
        :arg category_id: The identifier of the category definition of interest
        :arg body: Category selection details if not provided in URI
        :arg from_: skips a number of categories
        :arg size: specifies a max number of categories to get
        """
        if job_id in SKIP_IN_PATH:
            raise ValueError("Empty value passed for a required argument 'job_id'.")
        return self.transport.perform_request(
            "GET",
            _make_path(
                "_ml", "anomaly_detectors", job_id, "results", "categories", category_id
            ),
            params=params,
            body=body,
        )