DescribeActivity - AWS Step Functions

DescribeActivity

Describes an activity.

Note

This operation is eventually consistent. The results are best effort and may not reflect very recent updates and changes.

Request Syntax

{ "activityArn": "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.

activityArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the activity to describe.

Type: String

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

Required: Yes

Response Syntax

{ "activityArn": "string", "creationDate": number, "encryptionConfiguration": { "kmsDataKeyReusePeriodSeconds": number, "kmsKeyId": "string", "type": "string" }, "name": "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.

activityArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that identifies the activity.

Type: String

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

creationDate

The date the activity is created.

Type: Timestamp

encryptionConfiguration

Settings for configured server-side encryption.

Type: EncryptionConfiguration object

name

The name of the activity.

A name must not contain:

  • white space

  • brackets < > { } [ ]

  • wildcard characters ? *

  • special characters " # % \ ^ | ~ ` $ & , ; : /

  • control characters (U+0000-001F, U+007F-009F)

To enable logging with CloudWatch Logs, the name should only contain 0-9, A-Z, a-z, - and _.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 80.

Errors

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

ActivityDoesNotExist

The specified activity does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidArn

The provided Amazon Resource Name (ARN) is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: