AWS SDK Version 3 for .NET
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Implementation for accessing StepFunctions

Step Functions

Step Functions is a service that lets you coordinate the components of distributed applications and microservices using visual workflows.

You can use Step Functions to build applications from individual components, each of which performs a discrete function, or task, allowing you to scale and change applications quickly. Step Functions provides a console that helps visualize the components of your application as a series of steps. Step Functions automatically triggers and tracks each step, and retries steps when there are errors, so your application executes predictably and in the right order every time. Step Functions logs the state of each step, so you can quickly diagnose and debug any issues.

Step Functions manages operations and underlying infrastructure to ensure your application is available at any scale. You can run tasks on Amazon Web Services, your own servers, or any system that has access to Amazon Web Services. You can access and use Step Functions using the console, the Amazon Web Services SDKs, or an HTTP API. For more information about Step Functions, see the Step Functions Developer Guide .

If you use the Step Functions API actions using Amazon Web Services SDK integrations, make sure the API actions are in camel case and parameter names are in Pascal case. For example, you could use Step Functions API action startSyncExecution and specify its parameter as StateMachineArn.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  Amazon.Runtime.AmazonServiceClient
    Amazon.StepFunctions.AmazonStepFunctionsClient

Namespace: Amazon.StepFunctions
Assembly: AWSSDK.StepFunctions.dll
Version: 3.x.y.z

Syntax

C#
public class AmazonStepFunctionsClient : AmazonServiceClient
         IAmazonService, IAmazonStepFunctions, IDisposable

The AmazonStepFunctionsClient type exposes the following members

Constructors

NameDescription
Public Method AmazonStepFunctionsClient()

Constructs AmazonStepFunctionsClient with the credentials loaded from the application's default configuration, and if unsuccessful from the Instance Profile service on an EC2 instance. Example App.config with credentials set.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
    <appSettings>
        <add key="AWSProfileName" value="AWS Default"/>
    </appSettings>
</configuration>
             

Public Method AmazonStepFunctionsClient(RegionEndpoint)

Constructs AmazonStepFunctionsClient with the credentials loaded from the application's default configuration, and if unsuccessful from the Instance Profile service on an EC2 instance. Example App.config with credentials set.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
    <appSettings>
        <add key="AWSProfileName" value="AWS Default"/>
    </appSettings>
</configuration>
             

Public Method AmazonStepFunctionsClient(AmazonStepFunctionsConfig)

Constructs AmazonStepFunctionsClient with the credentials loaded from the application's default configuration, and if unsuccessful from the Instance Profile service on an EC2 instance. Example App.config with credentials set.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
    <appSettings>
        <add key="AWSProfileName" value="AWS Default"/>
    </appSettings>
</configuration>
             

Public Method AmazonStepFunctionsClient(AWSCredentials)

Constructs AmazonStepFunctionsClient with AWS Credentials

Public Method AmazonStepFunctionsClient(AWSCredentials, RegionEndpoint)

Constructs AmazonStepFunctionsClient with AWS Credentials

Public Method AmazonStepFunctionsClient(AWSCredentials, AmazonStepFunctionsConfig)

Constructs AmazonStepFunctionsClient with AWS Credentials and an AmazonStepFunctionsClient Configuration object.

Public Method AmazonStepFunctionsClient(string, string)

Constructs AmazonStepFunctionsClient with AWS Access Key ID and AWS Secret Key

Public Method AmazonStepFunctionsClient(string, string, RegionEndpoint)

Constructs AmazonStepFunctionsClient with AWS Access Key ID and AWS Secret Key

Public Method AmazonStepFunctionsClient(string, string, AmazonStepFunctionsConfig)

Constructs AmazonStepFunctionsClient with AWS Access Key ID, AWS Secret Key and an AmazonStepFunctionsClient Configuration object.

Public Method AmazonStepFunctionsClient(string, string, string)

Constructs AmazonStepFunctionsClient with AWS Access Key ID and AWS Secret Key

Public Method AmazonStepFunctionsClient(string, string, string, RegionEndpoint)

Constructs AmazonStepFunctionsClient with AWS Access Key ID and AWS Secret Key

Public Method AmazonStepFunctionsClient(string, string, string, AmazonStepFunctionsConfig)

Constructs AmazonStepFunctionsClient with AWS Access Key ID, AWS Secret Key and an AmazonStepFunctionsClient Configuration object.

Properties

NameTypeDescription
Public Property Config Amazon.Runtime.IClientConfig Inherited from Amazon.Runtime.AmazonServiceClient.
Public Property Paginators Amazon.StepFunctions.Model.IStepFunctionsPaginatorFactory

Paginators for the service

Methods

Note:

Asynchronous operations (methods ending with Async) in the table below are for .NET 4.5 or higher. For .NET 3.5 the SDK follows the standard naming convention of BeginMethodName and EndMethodName to indicate asynchronous operations - these method pairs are not shown in the table below.

NameDescription
Public Method CreateActivity(CreateActivityRequest)

Creates an activity. An activity is a task that you write in any programming language and host on any machine that has access to 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.

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

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.

Public Method CreateActivityAsync(CreateActivityRequest, CancellationToken)

Creates an activity. An activity is a task that you write in any programming language and host on any machine that has access to 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.

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

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.

Public Method CreateStateMachine(CreateStateMachineRequest)

Creates a state machine. A state machine consists of a collection of states that can do work (Task states), determine to which states to transition next (Choice states), stop an execution with an error (Fail states), and so on. State machines are specified using a JSON-based, structured language. For more information, see Amazon States Language in the Step Functions User Guide.

If you set the publish parameter of this API action to true, it publishes version 1 as the first revision of the state machine.

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

CreateStateMachine is an idempotent API. Subsequent requests won’t create a duplicate resource if it was already created. CreateStateMachine's idempotency check is based on the state machine name, definition, type, LoggingConfiguration, and TracingConfiguration. The check is also based on the publish and versionDescription parameters. If a following request has a different roleArn or tags, Step Functions will ignore these differences and treat it as an idempotent request of the previous. In this case, roleArn and tags will not be updated, even if they are different.

Public Method CreateStateMachineAlias(CreateStateMachineAliasRequest)

Creates an alias for a state machine that points to one or two versions of the same state machine. You can set your application to call StartExecution with an alias and update the version the alias uses without changing the client's code.

You can also map an alias to split StartExecution requests between two versions of a state machine. To do this, add a second RoutingConfig object in the routingConfiguration parameter. You must also specify the percentage of execution run requests each version should receive in both RoutingConfig objects. Step Functions randomly chooses which version runs a given execution based on the percentage you specify.

To create an alias that points to a single version, specify a single RoutingConfig object with a weight set to 100.

You can create up to 100 aliases for each state machine. You must delete unused aliases using the DeleteStateMachineAlias API action.

CreateStateMachineAlias is an idempotent API. Step Functions bases the idempotency check on the stateMachineArn, description, name, and routingConfiguration parameters. Requests that contain the same values for these parameters return a successful idempotent response without creating a duplicate resource.

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Public Method CreateStateMachineAliasAsync(CreateStateMachineAliasRequest, CancellationToken)

Creates an alias for a state machine that points to one or two versions of the same state machine. You can set your application to call StartExecution with an alias and update the version the alias uses without changing the client's code.

You can also map an alias to split StartExecution requests between two versions of a state machine. To do this, add a second RoutingConfig object in the routingConfiguration parameter. You must also specify the percentage of execution run requests each version should receive in both RoutingConfig objects. Step Functions randomly chooses which version runs a given execution based on the percentage you specify.

To create an alias that points to a single version, specify a single RoutingConfig object with a weight set to 100.

You can create up to 100 aliases for each state machine. You must delete unused aliases using the DeleteStateMachineAlias API action.

CreateStateMachineAlias is an idempotent API. Step Functions bases the idempotency check on the stateMachineArn, description, name, and routingConfiguration parameters. Requests that contain the same values for these parameters return a successful idempotent response without creating a duplicate resource.

Related operations:

Public Method CreateStateMachineAsync(CreateStateMachineRequest, CancellationToken)

Creates a state machine. A state machine consists of a collection of states that can do work (Task states), determine to which states to transition next (Choice states), stop an execution with an error (Fail states), and so on. State machines are specified using a JSON-based, structured language. For more information, see Amazon States Language in the Step Functions User Guide.

If you set the publish parameter of this API action to true, it publishes version 1 as the first revision of the state machine.

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

CreateStateMachine is an idempotent API. Subsequent requests won’t create a duplicate resource if it was already created. CreateStateMachine's idempotency check is based on the state machine name, definition, type, LoggingConfiguration, and TracingConfiguration. The check is also based on the publish and versionDescription parameters. If a following request has a different roleArn or tags, Step Functions will ignore these differences and treat it as an idempotent request of the previous. In this case, roleArn and tags will not be updated, even if they are different.

Public Method DeleteActivity(DeleteActivityRequest)

Deletes an activity.

Public Method DeleteActivityAsync(DeleteActivityRequest, CancellationToken)

Deletes an activity.

Public Method DeleteStateMachine(DeleteStateMachineRequest)

Deletes a state machine. This is an asynchronous operation. It sets the state machine's status to DELETING and begins the deletion process. A state machine is deleted only when all its executions are completed. On the next state transition, the state machine's executions are terminated.

A qualified state machine ARN can either refer to a Distributed Map state defined within a state machine, a version ARN, or an alias ARN.

The following are some examples of qualified and unqualified state machine ARNs:

  • The following qualified state machine ARN refers to a Distributed Map state with a label mapStateLabel in a state machine named myStateMachine.

    arn:partition:states:region:account-id:stateMachine:myStateMachine/mapStateLabel

    If you provide a qualified state machine ARN that refers to a Distributed Map state, the request fails with ValidationException.

  • The following unqualified state machine ARN refers to a state machine named myStateMachine.

    arn:partition:states:region:account-id:stateMachine:myStateMachine

This API action also deletes all versions and aliases associated with a state machine.

For EXPRESS state machines, the deletion happens eventually (usually in less than a minute). Running executions may emit logs after DeleteStateMachine API is called.

Public Method DeleteStateMachineAlias(DeleteStateMachineAliasRequest)

Deletes a state machine alias.

After you delete a state machine alias, you can't use it to start executions. When you delete a state machine alias, Step Functions doesn't delete the state machine versions that alias references.

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Public Method DeleteStateMachineAliasAsync(DeleteStateMachineAliasRequest, CancellationToken)

Deletes a state machine alias.

After you delete a state machine alias, you can't use it to start executions. When you delete a state machine alias, Step Functions doesn't delete the state machine versions that alias references.

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Public Method DeleteStateMachineAsync(DeleteStateMachineRequest, CancellationToken)

Deletes a state machine. This is an asynchronous operation. It sets the state machine's status to DELETING and begins the deletion process. A state machine is deleted only when all its executions are completed. On the next state transition, the state machine's executions are terminated.

A qualified state machine ARN can either refer to a Distributed Map state defined within a state machine, a version ARN, or an alias ARN.

The following are some examples of qualified and unqualified state machine ARNs:

  • The following qualified state machine ARN refers to a Distributed Map state with a label mapStateLabel in a state machine named myStateMachine.

    arn:partition:states:region:account-id:stateMachine:myStateMachine/mapStateLabel

    If you provide a qualified state machine ARN that refers to a Distributed Map state, the request fails with ValidationException.

  • The following unqualified state machine ARN refers to a state machine named myStateMachine.

    arn:partition:states:region:account-id:stateMachine:myStateMachine

This API action also deletes all versions and aliases associated with a state machine.

For EXPRESS state machines, the deletion happens eventually (usually in less than a minute). Running executions may emit logs after DeleteStateMachine API is called.

Public Method DeleteStateMachineVersion(DeleteStateMachineVersionRequest)

Deletes a state machine version. After you delete a version, you can't call StartExecution using that version's ARN or use the version with a state machine alias.

Deleting a state machine version won't terminate its in-progress executions.

You can't delete a state machine version currently referenced by one or more aliases. Before you delete a version, you must either delete the aliases or update them to point to another state machine version.

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Public Method DeleteStateMachineVersionAsync(DeleteStateMachineVersionRequest, CancellationToken)

Deletes a state machine version. After you delete a version, you can't call StartExecution using that version's ARN or use the version with a state machine alias.

Deleting a state machine version won't terminate its in-progress executions.

You can't delete a state machine version currently referenced by one or more aliases. Before you delete a version, you must either delete the aliases or update them to point to another state machine version.

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Public Method DescribeActivity(DescribeActivityRequest)

Describes an activity.

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

Public Method DescribeActivityAsync(DescribeActivityRequest, CancellationToken)

Describes an activity.

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

Public Method DescribeExecution(DescribeExecutionRequest)

Provides information about a state machine execution, such as the state machine associated with the execution, the execution input and output, and relevant execution metadata. If you've redriven an execution, you can use this API action to return information about the redrives of that execution. In addition, you can use this API action to return the Map Run Amazon Resource Name (ARN) if the execution was dispatched by a Map Run.

If you specify a version or alias ARN when you call the StartExecution API action, DescribeExecution returns that ARN.

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

Executions of an EXPRESS state machine aren't supported by DescribeExecution unless a Map Run dispatched them.

Public Method DescribeExecutionAsync(DescribeExecutionRequest, CancellationToken)

Provides information about a state machine execution, such as the state machine associated with the execution, the execution input and output, and relevant execution metadata. If you've redriven an execution, you can use this API action to return information about the redrives of that execution. In addition, you can use this API action to return the Map Run Amazon Resource Name (ARN) if the execution was dispatched by a Map Run.

If you specify a version or alias ARN when you call the StartExecution API action, DescribeExecution returns that ARN.

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

Executions of an EXPRESS state machine aren't supported by DescribeExecution unless a Map Run dispatched them.

Public Method DescribeMapRun(DescribeMapRunRequest)

Provides information about a Map Run's configuration, progress, and results. If you've redriven a Map Run, this API action also returns information about the redrives of that Map Run. For more information, see Examining Map Run in the Step Functions Developer Guide.

Public Method DescribeMapRunAsync(DescribeMapRunRequest, CancellationToken)

Provides information about a Map Run's configuration, progress, and results. If you've redriven a Map Run, this API action also returns information about the redrives of that Map Run. For more information, see Examining Map Run in the Step Functions Developer Guide.

Public Method DescribeStateMachine(DescribeStateMachineRequest)

Provides information about a state machine's definition, its IAM role Amazon Resource Name (ARN), and configuration.

A qualified state machine ARN can either refer to a Distributed Map state defined within a state machine, a version ARN, or an alias ARN.

The following are some examples of qualified and unqualified state machine ARNs:

  • The following qualified state machine ARN refers to a Distributed Map state with a label mapStateLabel in a state machine named myStateMachine.

    arn:partition:states:region:account-id:stateMachine:myStateMachine/mapStateLabel

    If you provide a qualified state machine ARN that refers to a Distributed Map state, the request fails with ValidationException.

  • The following qualified state machine ARN refers to an alias named PROD.

    arn::states:::stateMachine:

    If you provide a qualified state machine ARN that refers to a version ARN or an alias ARN, the request starts execution for that version or alias.

  • The following unqualified state machine ARN refers to a state machine named myStateMachine.

    arn::states:::stateMachine:

This API action returns the details for a state machine version if the stateMachineArn you specify is a state machine version ARN.

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

Public Method DescribeStateMachineAlias(DescribeStateMachineAliasRequest)

Returns details about a state machine alias.

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Public Method DescribeStateMachineAliasAsync(DescribeStateMachineAliasRequest, CancellationToken)

Returns details about a state machine alias.

Related operations:

Public Method DescribeStateMachineAsync(DescribeStateMachineRequest, CancellationToken)

Provides information about a state machine's definition, its IAM role Amazon Resource Name (ARN), and configuration.

A qualified state machine ARN can either refer to a Distributed Map state defined within a state machine, a version ARN, or an alias ARN.

The following are some examples of qualified and unqualified state machine ARNs:

  • The following qualified state machine ARN refers to a Distributed Map state with a label mapStateLabel in a state machine named myStateMachine.

    arn:partition:states:region:account-id:stateMachine:myStateMachine/mapStateLabel

    If you provide a qualified state machine ARN that refers to a Distributed Map state, the request fails with ValidationException.

  • The following qualified state machine ARN refers to an alias named PROD.

    arn::states:::stateMachine:

    If you provide a qualified state machine ARN that refers to a version ARN or an alias ARN, the request starts execution for that version or alias.

  • The following unqualified state machine ARN refers to a state machine named myStateMachine.

    arn::states:::stateMachine:

This API action returns the details for a state machine version if the stateMachineArn you specify is a state machine version ARN.

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

Public Method DescribeStateMachineForExecution(DescribeStateMachineForExecutionRequest)

Provides information about a state machine's definition, its execution role ARN, and configuration. If a Map Run dispatched the execution, this action returns the Map Run Amazon Resource Name (ARN) in the response. The state machine returned is the state machine associated with the Map Run.

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

This API action is not supported by EXPRESS state machines.

Public Method DescribeStateMachineForExecutionAsync(DescribeStateMachineForExecutionRequest, CancellationToken)

Provides information about a state machine's definition, its execution role ARN, and configuration. If a Map Run dispatched the execution, this action returns the Map Run Amazon Resource Name (ARN) in the response. The state machine returned is the state machine associated with the Map Run.

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

This API action is not supported by EXPRESS state machines.

Public Method DetermineServiceOperationEndpoint(AmazonWebServiceRequest)

Returns the endpoint that will be used for a particular request.

Public Method Dispose() Inherited from Amazon.Runtime.AmazonServiceClient.
Public Method GetActivityTask(GetActivityTaskRequest)

Used by workers to retrieve a task (with the specified activity ARN) which has been scheduled for execution by a running state machine. This initiates a long poll, where the service holds the HTTP connection open and responds as soon as a task becomes available (i.e. an execution of a task of this type is needed.) The maximum time the service holds on to the request before responding is 60 seconds. If no task is available within 60 seconds, the poll returns a taskToken with a null string.

This API action isn't logged in CloudTrail.

Workers should set their client side socket timeout to at least 65 seconds (5 seconds higher than the maximum time the service may hold the poll request).

Polling with GetActivityTask can cause latency in some implementations. See Avoid Latency When Polling for Activity Tasks in the Step Functions Developer Guide.

Public Method GetActivityTaskAsync(GetActivityTaskRequest, CancellationToken)

Used by workers to retrieve a task (with the specified activity ARN) which has been scheduled for execution by a running state machine. This initiates a long poll, where the service holds the HTTP connection open and responds as soon as a task becomes available (i.e. an execution of a task of this type is needed.) The maximum time the service holds on to the request before responding is 60 seconds. If no task is available within 60 seconds, the poll returns a taskToken with a null string.

This API action isn't logged in CloudTrail.

Workers should set their client side socket timeout to at least 65 seconds (5 seconds higher than the maximum time the service may hold the poll request).

Polling with GetActivityTask can cause latency in some implementations. See Avoid Latency When Polling for Activity Tasks in the Step Functions Developer Guide.

Public Method GetExecutionHistory(GetExecutionHistoryRequest)

Returns the history of the specified execution as a list of events. By default, the results are returned in ascending order of the timeStamp of the events. Use the reverseOrder parameter to get the latest events first.

If nextToken is returned, there are more results available. The value of nextToken is a unique pagination token for each page. Make the call again using the returned token to retrieve the next page. Keep all other arguments unchanged. Each pagination token expires after 24 hours. Using an expired pagination token will return an HTTP 400 InvalidToken error.

This API action is not supported by EXPRESS state machines.

Public Method GetExecutionHistoryAsync(GetExecutionHistoryRequest, CancellationToken)

Returns the history of the specified execution as a list of events. By default, the results are returned in ascending order of the timeStamp of the events. Use the reverseOrder parameter to get the latest events first.

If nextToken is returned, there are more results available. The value of nextToken is a unique pagination token for each page. Make the call again using the returned token to retrieve the next page. Keep all other arguments unchanged. Each pagination token expires after 24 hours. Using an expired pagination token will return an HTTP 400 InvalidToken error.

This API action is not supported by EXPRESS state machines.

Public Method ListActivities(ListActivitiesRequest)

Lists the existing activities.

If nextToken is returned, there are more results available. The value of nextToken is a unique pagination token for each page. Make the call again using the returned token to retrieve the next page. Keep all other arguments unchanged. Each pagination token expires after 24 hours. Using an expired pagination token will return an HTTP 400 InvalidToken error.

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

Public Method ListActivitiesAsync(ListActivitiesRequest, CancellationToken)

Lists the existing activities.

If nextToken is returned, there are more results available. The value of nextToken is a unique pagination token for each page. Make the call again using the returned token to retrieve the next page. Keep all other arguments unchanged. Each pagination token expires after 24 hours. Using an expired pagination token will return an HTTP 400 InvalidToken error.

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

Public Method ListExecutions(ListExecutionsRequest)

Lists all executions of a state machine or a Map Run. You can list all executions related to a state machine by specifying a state machine Amazon Resource Name (ARN), or those related to a Map Run by specifying a Map Run ARN. Using this API action, you can also list all redriven executions.

You can also provide a state machine alias ARN or version ARN to list the executions associated with a specific alias or version.

Results are sorted by time, with the most recent execution first.

If nextToken is returned, there are more results available. The value of nextToken is a unique pagination token for each page. Make the call again using the returned token to retrieve the next page. Keep all other arguments unchanged. Each pagination token expires after 24 hours. Using an expired pagination token will return an HTTP 400 InvalidToken error.

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

This API action is not supported by EXPRESS state machines.

Public Method ListExecutionsAsync(ListExecutionsRequest, CancellationToken)

Lists all executions of a state machine or a Map Run. You can list all executions related to a state machine by specifying a state machine Amazon Resource Name (ARN), or those related to a Map Run by specifying a Map Run ARN. Using this API action, you can also list all redriven executions.

You can also provide a state machine alias ARN or version ARN to list the executions associated with a specific alias or version.

Results are sorted by time, with the most recent execution first.

If nextToken is returned, there are more results available. The value of nextToken is a unique pagination token for each page. Make the call again using the returned token to retrieve the next page. Keep all other arguments unchanged. Each pagination token expires after 24 hours. Using an expired pagination token will return an HTTP 400 InvalidToken error.

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

This API action is not supported by EXPRESS state machines.

Public Method ListMapRuns(ListMapRunsRequest)

Lists all Map Runs that were started by a given state machine execution. Use this API action to obtain Map Run ARNs, and then call DescribeMapRun to obtain more information, if needed.

Public Method ListMapRunsAsync(ListMapRunsRequest, CancellationToken)

Lists all Map Runs that were started by a given state machine execution. Use this API action to obtain Map Run ARNs, and then call DescribeMapRun to obtain more information, if needed.

Public Method ListStateMachineAliases(ListStateMachineAliasesRequest)

Lists aliases for a specified state machine ARN. Results are sorted by time, with the most recently created aliases listed first.

To list aliases that reference a state machine version, you can specify the version ARN in the stateMachineArn parameter.

If nextToken is returned, there are more results available. The value of nextToken is a unique pagination token for each page. Make the call again using the returned token to retrieve the next page. Keep all other arguments unchanged. Each pagination token expires after 24 hours. Using an expired pagination token will return an HTTP 400 InvalidToken error.

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Public Method ListStateMachineAliasesAsync(ListStateMachineAliasesRequest, CancellationToken)

Lists aliases for a specified state machine ARN. Results are sorted by time, with the most recently created aliases listed first.

To list aliases that reference a state machine version, you can specify the version ARN in the stateMachineArn parameter.

If nextToken is returned, there are more results available. The value of nextToken is a unique pagination token for each page. Make the call again using the returned token to retrieve the next page. Keep all other arguments unchanged. Each pagination token expires after 24 hours. Using an expired pagination token will return an HTTP 400 InvalidToken error.

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Public Method ListStateMachines(ListStateMachinesRequest)

Lists the existing state machines.

If nextToken is returned, there are more results available. The value of nextToken is a unique pagination token for each page. Make the call again using the returned token to retrieve the next page. Keep all other arguments unchanged. Each pagination token expires after 24 hours. Using an expired pagination token will return an HTTP 400 InvalidToken error.

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

Public Method ListStateMachinesAsync(ListStateMachinesRequest, CancellationToken)

Lists the existing state machines.

If nextToken is returned, there are more results available. The value of nextToken is a unique pagination token for each page. Make the call again using the returned token to retrieve the next page. Keep all other arguments unchanged. Each pagination token expires after 24 hours. Using an expired pagination token will return an HTTP 400 InvalidToken error.

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

Public Method ListStateMachineVersions(ListStateMachineVersionsRequest)

Lists versions for the specified state machine Amazon Resource Name (ARN).

The results are sorted in descending order of the version creation time.

If nextToken is returned, there are more results available. The value of nextToken is a unique pagination token for each page. Make the call again using the returned token to retrieve the next page. Keep all other arguments unchanged. Each pagination token expires after 24 hours. Using an expired pagination token will return an HTTP 400 InvalidToken error.

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Public Method ListStateMachineVersionsAsync(ListStateMachineVersionsRequest, CancellationToken)

Lists versions for the specified state machine Amazon Resource Name (ARN).

The results are sorted in descending order of the version creation time.

If nextToken is returned, there are more results available. The value of nextToken is a unique pagination token for each page. Make the call again using the returned token to retrieve the next page. Keep all other arguments unchanged. Each pagination token expires after 24 hours. Using an expired pagination token will return an HTTP 400 InvalidToken error.

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Public Method ListTagsForResource(ListTagsForResourceRequest)

List tags for a given resource.

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

Public Method ListTagsForResourceAsync(ListTagsForResourceRequest, CancellationToken)

List tags for a given resource.

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

Public Method PublishStateMachineVersion(PublishStateMachineVersionRequest)

Creates a version from the current revision of a state machine. Use versions to create immutable snapshots of your state machine. You can start executions from versions either directly or with an alias. To create an alias, use CreateStateMachineAlias.

You can publish up to 1000 versions for each state machine. You must manually delete unused versions using the DeleteStateMachineVersion API action.

PublishStateMachineVersion is an idempotent API. It doesn't create a duplicate state machine version if it already exists for the current revision. Step Functions bases PublishStateMachineVersion's idempotency check on the stateMachineArn, name, and revisionId parameters. Requests with the same parameters return a successful idempotent response. If you don't specify a revisionId, Step Functions checks for a previously published version of the state machine's current revision.

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Public Method PublishStateMachineVersionAsync(PublishStateMachineVersionRequest, CancellationToken)

Creates a version from the current revision of a state machine. Use versions to create immutable snapshots of your state machine. You can start executions from versions either directly or with an alias. To create an alias, use CreateStateMachineAlias.

You can publish up to 1000 versions for each state machine. You must manually delete unused versions using the DeleteStateMachineVersion API action.

PublishStateMachineVersion is an idempotent API. It doesn't create a duplicate state machine version if it already exists for the current revision. Step Functions bases PublishStateMachineVersion's idempotency check on the stateMachineArn, name, and revisionId parameters. Requests with the same parameters return a successful idempotent response. If you don't specify a revisionId, Step Functions checks for a previously published version of the state machine's current revision.

Related operations:

Public Method RedriveExecution(RedriveExecutionRequest)

Restarts unsuccessful executions of Standard workflows that didn't complete successfully in the last 14 days. These include failed, aborted, or timed out executions. When you redrive an execution, it continues the failed execution from the unsuccessful step and uses the same input. Step Functions preserves the results and execution history of the successful steps, and doesn't rerun these steps when you redrive an execution. Redriven executions use the same state machine definition and execution ARN as the original execution attempt.

For workflows that include an Inline Map or Parallel state, RedriveExecution API action reschedules and redrives only the iterations and branches that failed or aborted.

To redrive a workflow that includes a Distributed Map state whose Map Run failed, you must redrive the parent workflow. The parent workflow redrives all the unsuccessful states, including a failed Map Run. If a Map Run was not started in the original execution attempt, the redriven parent workflow starts the Map Run.

This API action is not supported by EXPRESS state machines.

However, you can restart the unsuccessful executions of Express child workflows in a Distributed Map by redriving its Map Run. When you redrive a Map Run, the Express child workflows are rerun using the StartExecution API action. For more information, see Redriving Map Runs.

You can redrive executions if your original execution meets the following conditions:

  • The execution status isn't SUCCEEDED.

  • Your workflow execution has not exceeded the redrivable period of 14 days. Redrivable period refers to the time during which you can redrive a given execution. This period starts from the day a state machine completes its execution.

  • The workflow execution has not exceeded the maximum open time of one year. For more information about state machine quotas, see Quotas related to state machine executions.

  • The execution event history count is less than 24,999. Redriven executions append their event history to the existing event history. Make sure your workflow execution contains less than 24,999 events to accommodate the ExecutionRedriven history event and at least one other history event.

Public Method RedriveExecutionAsync(RedriveExecutionRequest, CancellationToken)

Restarts unsuccessful executions of Standard workflows that didn't complete successfully in the last 14 days. These include failed, aborted, or timed out executions. When you redrive an execution, it continues the failed execution from the unsuccessful step and uses the same input. Step Functions preserves the results and execution history of the successful steps, and doesn't rerun these steps when you redrive an execution. Redriven executions use the same state machine definition and execution ARN as the original execution attempt.

For workflows that include an Inline Map or Parallel state, RedriveExecution API action reschedules and redrives only the iterations and branches that failed or aborted.

To redrive a workflow that includes a Distributed Map state whose Map Run failed, you must redrive the parent workflow. The parent workflow redrives all the unsuccessful states, including a failed Map Run. If a Map Run was not started in the original execution attempt, the redriven parent workflow starts the Map Run.

This API action is not supported by EXPRESS state machines.

However, you can restart the unsuccessful executions of Express child workflows in a Distributed Map by redriving its Map Run. When you redrive a Map Run, the Express child workflows are rerun using the StartExecution API action. For more information, see Redriving Map Runs.

You can redrive executions if your original execution meets the following conditions:

  • The execution status isn't SUCCEEDED.

  • Your workflow execution has not exceeded the redrivable period of 14 days. Redrivable period refers to the time during which you can redrive a given execution. This period starts from the day a state machine completes its execution.

  • The workflow execution has not exceeded the maximum open time of one year. For more information about state machine quotas, see Quotas related to state machine executions.

  • The execution event history count is less than 24,999. Redriven executions append their event history to the existing event history. Make sure your workflow execution contains less than 24,999 events to accommodate the ExecutionRedriven history event and at least one other history event.

Public Method SendTaskFailure(SendTaskFailureRequest)

Used by activity workers, Task states using the callback pattern, and optionally Task states using the job run pattern to report that the task identified by the taskToken failed.

Public Method SendTaskFailureAsync(SendTaskFailureRequest, CancellationToken)

Used by activity workers, Task states using the callback pattern, and optionally Task states using the job run pattern to report that the task identified by the taskToken failed.

Public Method SendTaskHeartbeat(SendTaskHeartbeatRequest)

Used by activity workers and Task states using the callback pattern, and optionally Task states using the job run pattern to report to Step Functions that the task represented by the specified taskToken is still making progress. This action resets the Heartbeat clock. The Heartbeat threshold is specified in the state machine's Amazon States Language definition (HeartbeatSeconds). This action does not in itself create an event in the execution history. However, if the task times out, the execution history contains an ActivityTimedOut entry for activities, or a TaskTimedOut entry for tasks using the job run or callback pattern.

The Timeout of a task, defined in the state machine's Amazon States Language definition, is its maximum allowed duration, regardless of the number of SendTaskHeartbeat requests received. Use HeartbeatSeconds to configure the timeout interval for heartbeats.

Public Method SendTaskHeartbeatAsync(SendTaskHeartbeatRequest, CancellationToken)

Used by activity workers and Task states using the callback pattern, and optionally Task states using the job run pattern to report to Step Functions that the task represented by the specified taskToken is still making progress. This action resets the Heartbeat clock. The Heartbeat threshold is specified in the state machine's Amazon States Language definition (HeartbeatSeconds). This action does not in itself create an event in the execution history. However, if the task times out, the execution history contains an ActivityTimedOut entry for activities, or a TaskTimedOut entry for tasks using the job run or callback pattern.

The Timeout of a task, defined in the state machine's Amazon States Language definition, is its maximum allowed duration, regardless of the number of SendTaskHeartbeat requests received. Use HeartbeatSeconds to configure the timeout interval for heartbeats.

Public Method SendTaskSuccess(SendTaskSuccessRequest)

Used by activity workers, Task states using the callback pattern, and optionally Task states using the job run pattern to report that the task identified by the taskToken completed successfully.

Public Method SendTaskSuccessAsync(SendTaskSuccessRequest, CancellationToken)

Used by activity workers, Task states using the callback pattern, and optionally Task states using the job run pattern to report that the task identified by the taskToken completed successfully.

Public Method StartExecution(StartExecutionRequest)

Starts a state machine execution.

A qualified state machine ARN can either refer to a Distributed Map state defined within a state machine, a version ARN, or an alias ARN.

The following are some examples of qualified and unqualified state machine ARNs:

  • The following qualified state machine ARN refers to a Distributed Map state with a label mapStateLabel in a state machine named myStateMachine.

    arn:partition:states:region:account-id:stateMachine:myStateMachine/mapStateLabel

    If you provide a qualified state machine ARN that refers to a Distributed Map state, the request fails with ValidationException.

  • The following qualified state machine ARN refers to an alias named PROD.

    arn::states:::stateMachine:

    If you provide a qualified state machine ARN that refers to a version ARN or an alias ARN, the request starts execution for that version or alias.

  • The following unqualified state machine ARN refers to a state machine named myStateMachine.

    arn::states:::stateMachine:

If you start an execution with an unqualified state machine ARN, Step Functions uses the latest revision of the state machine for the execution.

To start executions of a state machine version, call StartExecution and provide the version ARN or the ARN of an alias that points to the version.

StartExecution is idempotent for STANDARD workflows. For a STANDARD workflow, if you call StartExecution with the same name and input as a running execution, the call succeeds and return the same response as the original request. If the execution is closed or if the input is different, it returns a 400 ExecutionAlreadyExists error. You can reuse names after 90 days.

StartExecution isn't idempotent for EXPRESS workflows.

Public Method StartExecutionAsync(StartExecutionRequest, CancellationToken)

Starts a state machine execution.

A qualified state machine ARN can either refer to a Distributed Map state defined within a state machine, a version ARN, or an alias ARN.

The following are some examples of qualified and unqualified state machine ARNs:

  • The following qualified state machine ARN refers to a Distributed Map state with a label mapStateLabel in a state machine named myStateMachine.

    arn:partition:states:region:account-id:stateMachine:myStateMachine/mapStateLabel

    If you provide a qualified state machine ARN that refers to a Distributed Map state, the request fails with ValidationException.

  • The following qualified state machine ARN refers to an alias named PROD.

    arn::states:::stateMachine:

    If you provide a qualified state machine ARN that refers to a version ARN or an alias ARN, the request starts execution for that version or alias.

  • The following unqualified state machine ARN refers to a state machine named myStateMachine.

    arn::states:::stateMachine:

If you start an execution with an unqualified state machine ARN, Step Functions uses the latest revision of the state machine for the execution.

To start executions of a state machine version, call StartExecution and provide the version ARN or the ARN of an alias that points to the version.

StartExecution is idempotent for STANDARD workflows. For a STANDARD workflow, if you call StartExecution with the same name and input as a running execution, the call succeeds and return the same response as the original request. If the execution is closed or if the input is different, it returns a 400 ExecutionAlreadyExists error. You can reuse names after 90 days.

StartExecution isn't idempotent for EXPRESS workflows.

Public Method StartSyncExecution(StartSyncExecutionRequest)

Starts a Synchronous Express state machine execution. StartSyncExecution is not available for STANDARD workflows.

StartSyncExecution will return a 200 OK response, even if your execution fails, because the status code in the API response doesn't reflect function errors. Error codes are reserved for errors that prevent your execution from running, such as permissions errors, limit errors, or issues with your state machine code and configuration.

This API action isn't logged in CloudTrail.

Public Method StartSyncExecutionAsync(StartSyncExecutionRequest, CancellationToken)

Starts a Synchronous Express state machine execution. StartSyncExecution is not available for STANDARD workflows.

StartSyncExecution will return a 200 OK response, even if your execution fails, because the status code in the API response doesn't reflect function errors. Error codes are reserved for errors that prevent your execution from running, such as permissions errors, limit errors, or issues with your state machine code and configuration.

This API action isn't logged in CloudTrail.

Public Method StopExecution(StopExecutionRequest)

Stops an execution.

This API action is not supported by EXPRESS state machines.

Public Method StopExecutionAsync(StopExecutionRequest, CancellationToken)

Stops an execution.

This API action is not supported by EXPRESS state machines.

Public Method TagResource(TagResourceRequest)

Add a tag to a Step Functions resource.

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

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

Public Method TagResourceAsync(TagResourceRequest, CancellationToken)

Add a tag to a Step Functions resource.

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

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

Public Method TestState(TestStateRequest)

Accepts the definition of a single state and executes it. You can test a state without creating a state machine or updating an existing state machine. Using this API, you can test the following:

You can call this API on only one state at a time. The states that you can test include the following:

The TestState API assumes an IAM role which must contain the required IAM permissions for the resources your state is accessing. For information about the permissions a state might need, see IAM permissions to test a state.

The TestState API can run for up to five minutes. If the execution of a state exceeds this duration, it fails with the States.Timeout error.

TestState doesn't support Activity tasks, .sync or .waitForTaskToken service integration patterns, Parallel, or Map states.

Public Method TestStateAsync(TestStateRequest, CancellationToken)

Accepts the definition of a single state and executes it. You can test a state without creating a state machine or updating an existing state machine. Using this API, you can test the following:

You can call this API on only one state at a time. The states that you can test include the following:

The TestState API assumes an IAM role which must contain the required IAM permissions for the resources your state is accessing. For information about the permissions a state might need, see IAM permissions to test a state.

The TestState API can run for up to five minutes. If the execution of a state exceeds this duration, it fails with the States.Timeout error.

TestState doesn't support Activity tasks, .sync or .waitForTaskToken service integration patterns, Parallel, or Map states.

Public Method UntagResource(UntagResourceRequest)

Remove a tag from a Step Functions resource

Public Method UntagResourceAsync(UntagResourceRequest, CancellationToken)

Remove a tag from a Step Functions resource

Public Method UpdateMapRun(UpdateMapRunRequest)

Updates an in-progress Map Run's configuration to include changes to the settings that control maximum concurrency and Map Run failure.

Public Method UpdateMapRunAsync(UpdateMapRunRequest, CancellationToken)

Updates an in-progress Map Run's configuration to include changes to the settings that control maximum concurrency and Map Run failure.

Public Method UpdateStateMachine(UpdateStateMachineRequest)

Updates an existing state machine by modifying its definition, roleArn, or loggingConfiguration. Running executions will continue to use the previous definition and roleArn. You must include at least one of definition or roleArn or you will receive a MissingRequiredParameter error.

A qualified state machine ARN refers to a Distributed Map state defined within a state machine. For example, the qualified state machine ARN arn:partition:states:region:account-id:stateMachine:stateMachineName/mapStateLabel refers to a Distributed Map state with a label mapStateLabel in the state machine named stateMachineName.

A qualified state machine ARN can either refer to a Distributed Map state defined within a state machine, a version ARN, or an alias ARN.

The following are some examples of qualified and unqualified state machine ARNs:

  • The following qualified state machine ARN refers to a Distributed Map state with a label mapStateLabel in a state machine named myStateMachine.

    arn:partition:states:region:account-id:stateMachine:myStateMachine/mapStateLabel

    If you provide a qualified state machine ARN that refers to a Distributed Map state, the request fails with ValidationException.

  • The following qualified state machine ARN refers to an alias named PROD.

    arn::states:::stateMachine:

    If you provide a qualified state machine ARN that refers to a version ARN or an alias ARN, the request starts execution for that version or alias.

  • The following unqualified state machine ARN refers to a state machine named myStateMachine.

    arn::states:::stateMachine:

After you update your state machine, you can set the publish parameter to true in the same action to publish a new version. This way, you can opt-in to strict versioning of your state machine.

Step Functions assigns monotonically increasing integers for state machine versions, starting at version number 1.

All StartExecution calls within a few seconds use the updated definition and roleArn. Executions started immediately after you call UpdateStateMachine may use the previous state machine definition and roleArn.

Public Method UpdateStateMachineAlias(UpdateStateMachineAliasRequest)

Updates the configuration of an existing state machine alias by modifying its description or routingConfiguration.

You must specify at least one of the description or routingConfiguration parameters to update a state machine alias.

UpdateStateMachineAlias is an idempotent API. Step Functions bases the idempotency check on the stateMachineAliasArn, description, and routingConfiguration parameters. Requests with the same parameters return an idempotent response.

This operation is eventually consistent. All StartExecution requests made within a few seconds use the latest alias configuration. Executions started immediately after calling UpdateStateMachineAlias may use the previous routing configuration.

Related operations:

Public Method UpdateStateMachineAliasAsync(UpdateStateMachineAliasRequest, CancellationToken)

Updates the configuration of an existing state machine alias by modifying its description or routingConfiguration.

You must specify at least one of the description or routingConfiguration parameters to update a state machine alias.

UpdateStateMachineAlias is an idempotent API. Step Functions bases the idempotency check on the stateMachineAliasArn, description, and routingConfiguration parameters. Requests with the same parameters return an idempotent response.

This operation is eventually consistent. All StartExecution requests made within a few seconds use the latest alias configuration. Executions started immediately after calling UpdateStateMachineAlias may use the previous routing configuration.

Related operations:

Public Method UpdateStateMachineAsync(UpdateStateMachineRequest, CancellationToken)

Updates an existing state machine by modifying its definition, roleArn, or loggingConfiguration. Running executions will continue to use the previous definition and roleArn. You must include at least one of definition or roleArn or you will receive a MissingRequiredParameter error.

A qualified state machine ARN refers to a Distributed Map state defined within a state machine. For example, the qualified state machine ARN arn:partition:states:region:account-id:stateMachine:stateMachineName/mapStateLabel refers to a Distributed Map state with a label mapStateLabel in the state machine named stateMachineName.

A qualified state machine ARN can either refer to a Distributed Map state defined within a state machine, a version ARN, or an alias ARN.

The following are some examples of qualified and unqualified state machine ARNs:

  • The following qualified state machine ARN refers to a Distributed Map state with a label mapStateLabel in a state machine named myStateMachine.

    arn:partition:states:region:account-id:stateMachine:myStateMachine/mapStateLabel

    If you provide a qualified state machine ARN that refers to a Distributed Map state, the request fails with ValidationException.

  • The following qualified state machine ARN refers to an alias named PROD.

    arn::states:::stateMachine:

    If you provide a qualified state machine ARN that refers to a version ARN or an alias ARN, the request starts execution for that version or alias.

  • The following unqualified state machine ARN refers to a state machine named myStateMachine.

    arn::states:::stateMachine:

After you update your state machine, you can set the publish parameter to true in the same action to publish a new version. This way, you can opt-in to strict versioning of your state machine.

Step Functions assigns monotonically increasing integers for state machine versions, starting at version number 1.

All StartExecution calls within a few seconds use the updated definition and roleArn. Executions started immediately after you call UpdateStateMachine may use the previous state machine definition and roleArn.

Events

NameDescription
Event AfterResponseEvent Inherited from Amazon.Runtime.AmazonServiceClient.
Event BeforeRequestEvent Inherited from Amazon.Runtime.AmazonServiceClient.
Event ExceptionEvent Inherited from Amazon.Runtime.AmazonServiceClient.

Version Information

.NET Core App:
Supported in: 3.1

.NET Standard:
Supported in: 2.0

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