create-activity¶

Description¶

Creates an activity. An activity is a task that you write in any programming language and host on any machine that has access to AWS Step Functions. Activities must poll Step Functions using the GetActivityTask API action and respond using SendTask* API actions. This function lets Step Functions know the existence of your activity and returns an identifier for use in a state machine and when polling from the activity.

Note

This operation is eventually consistent. The results are best effort and may not reflect very recent updates and changes.

Note

CreateActivity is an idempotent API. Subsequent requests won’t create a duplicate resource if it was already created. CreateActivity ‘s idempotency check is based on the activity name . If a following request has different tags values, Step Functions will ignore these differences and treat it as an idempotent request of the previous. In this case, tags will not be updated, even if they are different.

Synopsis¶

  create-activity
--name <value>
[--tags <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]

Options¶

--name (string)

The name of the activity to create. This name must be unique for your AWS account and region for 90 days. For more information, see Limits Related to State Machine Executions in the AWS Step Functions Developer Guide .

A name must not contain:

white space

brackets < > { } [ ]

wildcard characters ? *

special characters " # % \ ^ | ~ ` $ & , ; : /

control characters (U+0000-001F , U+007F-009F )

To enable logging with CloudWatch Logs, the name should only contain 0-9, A-Z, a-z, - and _.

--tags (list)

The list of tags to add to a resource.

An array of key-value pairs. For more information, see Using Cost Allocation Tags in the AWS Billing and Cost Management User Guide , and Controlling Access Using IAM Tags .

Tags may only contain Unicode letters, digits, white space, or these symbols: _ . : / = + - @ .

(structure)

Tags are key-value pairs that can be associated with Step Functions state machines and activities.

An array of key-value pairs. For more information, see Using Cost Allocation Tags in the AWS Billing and Cost Management User Guide , and Controlling Access Using IAM Tags .

Tags may only contain Unicode letters, digits, white space, or these symbols: _ . : / = + - @ .

key -> (string)

The key of a tag.

value -> (string)

The value of a tag.

Shorthand Syntax:

key=string,value=string ...

JSON Syntax:

[
  {
    "key": "string",
    "value": "string"
  }
  ...
]

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Output¶

activityArn -> (string)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that identifies the created activity.

creationDate -> (timestamp)

The date the activity is created.

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