AWS SDK Version 3 for .NET
API Reference

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Returns information about the specified workflow type. This includes configuration settings specified when the type was registered and other information such as creation date, current status, etc.

Access Control

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

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.

Note:

This is an asynchronous operation using the standard naming convention for .NET 4.5 or higher. For .NET 3.5 the operation is implemented as a pair of methods using the standard naming convention of BeginDescribeWorkflowType and EndDescribeWorkflowType.

Namespace: Amazon.SimpleWorkflow
Assembly: AWSSDK.SimpleWorkflow.dll
Version: 3.x.y.z

Syntax

C#
public virtual Task<DescribeWorkflowTypeResponse> DescribeWorkflowTypeAsync(
         DescribeWorkflowTypeRequest request,
         CancellationToken cancellationToken
)

Parameters

request
Type: Amazon.SimpleWorkflow.Model.DescribeWorkflowTypeRequest

Container for the necessary parameters to execute the DescribeWorkflowType service method.

cancellationToken
Type: System.Threading.CancellationToken

A cancellation token that can be used by other objects or threads to receive notice of cancellation.

Return Value


The response from the DescribeWorkflowType service method, as returned by SimpleWorkflow.

Exceptions

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

Version Information

.NET Core App:
Supported in: 3.1

.NET Standard:
Supported in: 2.0

.NET Framework:
Supported in: 4.5

See Also