Request Syntax Request Parameters Response Syntax Response Elements Errors Examples See Also

DescribeDomain

Returns information about the specified domain, including description and status.

Access Control

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

Use a Resource element with the domain name to limit the action to only specified domains.
Use an Action element to allow or deny permission to call this action.
You cannot use an IAM policy to constrain this action's parameters.

If the caller doesn't 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 is set to OPERATION_NOT_PERMITTED. For details and example IAM policies, see Using IAM to Manage Access to Amazon SWF Workflows in the Amazon SWF Developer Guide.

Request Syntax


{
   "name": "string"
}

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

name

The name of the domain to describe.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.

Required: Yes

Response Syntax


{
   "configuration": { 
      "workflowExecutionRetentionPeriodInDays": "string"
   },
   "domainInfo": { 
      "arn": "string",
      "description": "string",
      "name": "string",
      "status": "string"
   }
}

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

configuration

The domain configuration. Currently, this includes only the domain's retention period.

Type: DomainConfiguration object

domainInfo

The basic information about a domain, such as its name, status, and description.

Type: DomainInfo object

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

OperationNotPermittedFault

Returned when the caller doesn't have sufficient permissions to invoke the action.

HTTP Status Code: 400

UnknownResourceFault

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.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

DescribeDomain Example

This example illustrates one usage of DescribeDomain.

Sample Request


POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: swf.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.25) Gecko/20111212 Firefox/3.6.25 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0E)
Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */*
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 115
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.0
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
X-Amz-Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:13:33 GMT
X-Amz-Target: SimpleWorkflowService.DescribeDomain
Content-Encoding: amz-1.0
X-Amzn-Authorization: AWS3 AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE,Algorithm=HmacSHA256,SignedHeaders=Host;X-Amz-Date;X-Amz-Target;Content-Encoding,Signature=IFJtq3M366CHqMlTpyqYqd9z0ChCoKDC5SCJBsLifu4=
Referer: http://swf.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/explorer/index.html
Content-Length: 21
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache

{"name": "867530901"}

Sample Response


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 137
Content-Type: application/json
x-amzn-RequestId: e86a6779-3f26-11e1-9a27-0760db01a4a8

{"configuration":
  {"workflowExecutionRetentionPeriodInDays": "60"},
 "domainInfo":
  {"description": "music",
  "name": "867530901",
  "status": "REGISTERED"}
}