DescribeApplication

Returns information about a specific Amazon Kinesis Analytics application.

If you want to retrieve a list of all applications in your account, use the ListApplications operation.

This operation requires permissions to perform the kinesisanalytics:DescribeApplication action. You can use DescribeApplication to get the current application versionId, which you need to call other operations such as Update.

Request Syntax


{
   "ApplicationName": "string"
}

Request Parameters

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

ApplicationName

Name of the application.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: [a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+

Required: Yes

Response Syntax


{
   "ApplicationDetail": { 
      "ApplicationARN": "string",
      "ApplicationCode": "string",
      "ApplicationDescription": "string",
      "ApplicationName": "string",
      "ApplicationStatus": "string",
      "ApplicationVersionId": number,
      "CloudWatchLoggingOptionDescriptions": [ 
         { 
            "CloudWatchLoggingOptionId": "string",
            "LogStreamARN": "string",
            "RoleARN": "string"
         }
      ],
      "CreateTimestamp": number,
      "InputDescriptions": [ 
         { 
            "InAppStreamNames": [ "string" ],
            "InputId": "string",
            "InputParallelism": { 
               "Count": number
            },
            "InputProcessingConfigurationDescription": { 
               "InputLambdaProcessorDescription": { 
                  "ResourceARN": "string",
                  "RoleARN": "string"
               }
            },
            "InputSchema": { 
               "RecordColumns": [ 
                  { 
                     "Mapping": "string",
                     "Name": "string",
                     "SqlType": "string"
                  }
               ],
               "RecordEncoding": "string",
               "RecordFormat": { 
                  "MappingParameters": { 
                     "CSVMappingParameters": { 
                        "RecordColumnDelimiter": "string",
                        "RecordRowDelimiter": "string"
                     },
                     "JSONMappingParameters": { 
                        "RecordRowPath": "string"
                     }
                  },
                  "RecordFormatType": "string"
               }
            },
            "InputStartingPositionConfiguration": { 
               "InputStartingPosition": "string"
            },
            "KinesisFirehoseInputDescription": { 
               "ResourceARN": "string",
               "RoleARN": "string"
            },
            "KinesisStreamsInputDescription": { 
               "ResourceARN": "string",
               "RoleARN": "string"
            },
            "NamePrefix": "string"
         }
      ],
      "LastUpdateTimestamp": number,
      "OutputDescriptions": [ 
         { 
            "DestinationSchema": { 
               "RecordFormatType": "string"
            },
            "KinesisFirehoseOutputDescription": { 
               "ResourceARN": "string",
               "RoleARN": "string"
            },
            "KinesisStreamsOutputDescription": { 
               "ResourceARN": "string",
               "RoleARN": "string"
            },
            "LambdaOutputDescription": { 
               "ResourceARN": "string",
               "RoleARN": "string"
            },
            "Name": "string",
            "OutputId": "string"
         }
      ],
      "ReferenceDataSourceDescriptions": [ 
         { 
            "ReferenceId": "string",
            "ReferenceSchema": { 
               "RecordColumns": [ 
                  { 
                     "Mapping": "string",
                     "Name": "string",
                     "SqlType": "string"
                  }
               ],
               "RecordEncoding": "string",
               "RecordFormat": { 
                  "MappingParameters": { 
                     "CSVMappingParameters": { 
                        "RecordColumnDelimiter": "string",
                        "RecordRowDelimiter": "string"
                     },
                     "JSONMappingParameters": { 
                        "RecordRowPath": "string"
                     }
                  },
                  "RecordFormatType": "string"
               }
            },
            "S3ReferenceDataSourceDescription": { 
               "BucketARN": "string",
               "FileKey": "string",
               "ReferenceRoleARN": "string"
            },
            "TableName": "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.

ApplicationDetail

Provides a description of the application, such as the application Amazon Resource Name (ARN), status, latest version, and input and output configuration details.

Type: ApplicationDetail object

Errors

ResourceNotFoundException

Specified application can't be found.

HTTP Status Code: 400

UnsupportedOperationException