Used by activity workers to report to the service that the ActivityTask
represented by the specified taskToken is still making progress. The worker can
also (optionally) specify details of the progress, for example percent complete, using the
details parameter. This action can also be used by the worker as a mechanism to
check if cancellation is being requested for the activity task. If a cancellation is being
attempted for the specified task, then the boolean cancelRequested flag returned
by the service is set to true.
This action resets the taskHeartbeatTimeout clock. The
taskHeartbeatTimeout is specified in RegisterActivityType.
This action does not in itself create an event in the workflow execution history. However, if
the task times out, the workflow execution history will contain a
ActivityTaskTimedOut event that contains the information from the last heartbeat
generated by the activity worker.
The taskStartToCloseTimeout of an activity type is the maximum duration of an
activity task, regardless of the number of RecordActivityTaskHeartbeat requests
received. The taskStartToCloseTimeout is also specified in
RegisterActivityType.
This operation is only useful for long-lived activities to report liveliness of the task and to determine if a cancellation is being attempted.
If the cancelRequested flag returns true, a cancellation is being
attempted. If the worker can cancel the activity, it should respond with
RespondActivityTaskCanceled. Otherwise, it should ignore the cancellation request.
Access Control
You can use IAM policies to control this action’s access to Amazon SWF resources as follows:
- Use a
Resourceelement with the domain name to limit the action to only specified domains. - Use an
Actionelement to allow or deny permission to call this action. - You cannot use an IAM policy to constrain this action’s parameters.
If the caller does not have sufficient permissions to invoke the action, or the parameter
values fall outside the specified constraints, the action fails by throwing
OperationNotPermitted. For details and example IAM policies, see Using IAM to
Manage Access to Amazon SWF Workflows.
Access
public
Parameters
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Type |
Required |
Description |
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Optional |
An associative array of parameters that can have the following keys:
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Returns
Type |
Description |
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A |
Source
Method defined in services/swf.class.php | Toggle source view (6 lines) | View on GitHub

