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Use DeleteStateMachine with an AWS SDK - AWS SDK Code Examples

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Use DeleteStateMachine with an AWS SDK

The following code examples show how to use DeleteStateMachine.

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.NET
AWS SDK for .NET
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the AWS Code Examples Repository.

/// <summary> /// Delete a Step Functions state machine. /// </summary> /// <param name="stateMachineArn">The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the /// state machine.</param> /// <returns>A Boolean value indicating the success of the action.</returns> public async Task<bool> DeleteStateMachine(string stateMachineArn) { var response = await _amazonStepFunctions.DeleteStateMachineAsync(new DeleteStateMachineRequest { StateMachineArn = stateMachineArn }); return response.HttpStatusCode == System.Net.HttpStatusCode.OK; }
Java
SDK for Java 2.x
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the AWS Code Examples Repository.

public static void deleteMachine(SfnClient sfnClient, String stateMachineArn) { try { DeleteStateMachineRequest deleteStateMachineRequest = DeleteStateMachineRequest.builder() .stateMachineArn(stateMachineArn) .build(); sfnClient.deleteStateMachine(deleteStateMachineRequest); DescribeStateMachineRequest describeStateMachine = DescribeStateMachineRequest.builder() .stateMachineArn(stateMachineArn) .build(); while (true) { DescribeStateMachineResponse response = sfnClient.describeStateMachine(describeStateMachine); System.out.println("The state machine is not deleted yet. The status is " + response.status()); Thread.sleep(3000); } } catch (SfnException | InterruptedException e) { System.err.println(e.getMessage()); } System.out.println(stateMachineArn + " was successfully deleted."); }
Kotlin
SDK for Kotlin
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There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the AWS Code Examples Repository.

suspend fun deleteMachine(stateMachineArnVal: String?) { val deleteStateMachineRequest = DeleteStateMachineRequest { stateMachineArn = stateMachineArnVal } SfnClient { region = "us-east-1" }.use { sfnClient -> sfnClient.deleteStateMachine(deleteStateMachineRequest) println("$stateMachineArnVal was successfully deleted.") } }
Python
SDK for Python (Boto3)
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There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the AWS Code Examples Repository.

class StateMachine: """Encapsulates Step Functions state machine actions.""" def __init__(self, stepfunctions_client): """ :param stepfunctions_client: A Boto3 Step Functions client. """ self.stepfunctions_client = stepfunctions_client def delete(self, state_machine_arn): """ Delete a state machine and all of its run data. :param state_machine_arn: The ARN of the state machine to delete. """ try: response = self.stepfunctions_client.delete_state_machine( stateMachineArn=state_machine_arn ) except ClientError as err: logger.error( "Couldn't delete state machine %s. Here's why: %s: %s", state_machine_arn, err.response["Error"]["Code"], err.response["Error"]["Message"], ) raise else: return response
AWS SDK for .NET
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the AWS Code Examples Repository.

/// <summary> /// Delete a Step Functions state machine. /// </summary> /// <param name="stateMachineArn">The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the /// state machine.</param> /// <returns>A Boolean value indicating the success of the action.</returns> public async Task<bool> DeleteStateMachine(string stateMachineArn) { var response = await _amazonStepFunctions.DeleteStateMachineAsync(new DeleteStateMachineRequest { StateMachineArn = stateMachineArn }); return response.HttpStatusCode == System.Net.HttpStatusCode.OK; }
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