AWS SDK Version 2 for .NET
API Reference

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.NET Framework 3.5
 
Returns information about the specified workflow execution including its type and some statistics. This operation is eventually consistent. The results are best effort and may not exactly reflect recent updates and changes.

Access Control

You can use IAM policies to control this action's access to Amazon SWF resources as follows:

If the caller does not have sufficient permissions to invoke the action, or the parameter values fall outside the specified constraints, the action fails. The associated event attribute's cause parameter will be set to OPERATION_NOT_PERMITTED. For details and example IAM policies, see Using IAM to Manage Access to Amazon SWF Workflows.

Namespace: Amazon.SimpleWorkflow
Assembly: AWSSDK.dll
Version: (assembly version)

Syntax

C#
public virtual DescribeWorkflowExecutionResponse DescribeWorkflowExecution(
         DescribeWorkflowExecutionRequest request
)

Parameters

request
Type: Amazon.SimpleWorkflow.Model.DescribeWorkflowExecutionRequest

Container for the necessary parameters to execute the DescribeWorkflowExecution service method.

Return Value
Type: Amazon.SimpleWorkflow.Model.DescribeWorkflowExecutionResponse
The response from the DescribeWorkflowExecution service method, as returned by SimpleWorkflow.

Exceptions

ExceptionCondition
OperationNotPermittedException Returned when the caller does not have sufficient permissions to invoke the action.
UnknownResourceException Returned when the named resource cannot be found with in the scope of this operation (region or domain). This could happen if the named resource was never created or is no longer available for this operation.

Version Information

.NET Framework:
Supported in: 4.5, 4.0, 3.5