create-job¶

Description¶

This operation initiates the process of scheduling an upload or download of your data. You include in the request a manifest that describes the data transfer specifics. The response to the request includes a job ID, which you can use in other operations, a signature that you use to identify your storage device, and the address where you should ship your storage device.

Synopsis¶

  create-job
--job-type <value>
--manifest <value>
[--manifest-addendum <value>]
--validate-only | --no-validate-only
[--api-version <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]

Options¶

--job-type (string) Specifies whether the job to initiate is an import or export job.

Possible values:

Import

Export

--manifest (string) The UTF-8 encoded text of the manifest file.

--manifest-addendum (string) For internal use only.

--validate-only | --no-validate-only (boolean) Validate the manifest and parameter values in the request but do not actually create a job.

--api-version (string) Specifies the version of the client tool.

--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. The generated JSON skeleton is not stable between versions of the AWS CLI and there are no backwards compatibility guarantees in the JSON skeleton generated.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples¶

Note

To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.

Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal’s quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .

The following command creates an import job from a manifest file:

aws importexport create-job --job-type import --manifest file://manifest --no-validate-only

The file manifest is a YAML formatted text file in the current directory with the following content:

manifestVersion: 2.0;
returnAddress:
name: Jane Roe
company: Example Corp.
street1: 123 Any Street
city: Anytown
stateOrProvince: WA
postalCode: 91011-1111
phoneNumber: 206-555-1111
country: USA
deviceId: 49382
eraseDevice: yes
notificationEmail: john.doe@example.com;jane.roe@example.com
bucket: myBucket

For more information on the manifest file format, see Creating Import Manifests in the AWS Import/Export Developer Guide.

You can also pass the manifest as a string in quotes:

aws importexport create-job --job-type import --manifest 'manifestVersion: 2.0;
 returnAddress:
 name: Jane Roe
 company: Example Corp.
 street1: 123 Any Street
 city: Anytown
 stateOrProvince: WA
 postalCode: 91011-1111
 phoneNumber: 206-555-1111
 country: USA
 deviceId: 49382
 eraseDevice: yes
 notificationEmail: john.doe@example.com;jane.roe@example.com
 bucket: myBucket'

For information on quoting string arguments and using files, see Specifying Parameter Values in the AWS CLI User Guide.

Output¶

JobId -> (string)

A unique identifier which refers to a particular job.

JobType -> (string)

Specifies whether the job to initiate is an import or export job.

Signature -> (string)

An encrypted code used to authenticate the request and response, for example, “DV+TpDfx1/TdSE9ktyK9k/bDTVI=”. Only use this value is you want to create the signature file yourself. Generally you should use the SignatureFileContents value.

SignatureFileContents -> (string)

The actual text of the SIGNATURE file to be written to disk.

WarningMessage -> (string)

An optional message notifying you of non-fatal issues with the job, such as use of an incompatible Amazon S3 bucket name.

ArtifactList -> (list)

A collection of artifacts.

(structure)

A discrete item that contains the description and URL of an artifact (such as a PDF).

Description -> (string)

The associated description for this object.

URL -> (string)

The URL for a given Artifact.

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