DescribeApplication
This documentation is for version 1 of the Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics API, which only supports SQL applications. Version 2 of the API supports SQL and Java applications. For more information about version 2, see Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics API V2 Documentation.
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
-
The request was rejected because a specified parameter is not supported or a specified resource is not valid for this operation.
HTTP Status Code: 400
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: