CreateActivity - Amazon Step Functions
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CreateActivity

Creates an activity. An activity is a task that you write in any programming language and host on any machine that has access to Amazon Step Functions. Activities must poll Step Functions using the GetActivityTask API action and respond using SendTask* API actions. This function lets Step Functions know the existence of your activity and returns an identifier for use in a state machine and when polling from the activity.

Note

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

Note

CreateActivity is an idempotent API. Subsequent requests won’t create a duplicate resource if it was already created. CreateActivity's idempotency check is based on the activity name. If a following request has different tags values, Step Functions will ignore these differences and treat it as an idempotent request of the previous. In this case, tags will not be updated, even if they are different.

Request Syntax

{ "name": "string", "tags": [ { "key": "string", "value": "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 activity to create. This name must be unique for your Amazon account and region for 90 days. For more information, see Limits Related to State Machine Executions in the Amazon Step Functions Developer Guide.

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.

Required: Yes

tags

The list of tags to add to a resource.

An array of key-value pairs. For more information, see Using Cost Allocation Tags in the Amazon Billing and Cost Management User Guide, and Controlling Access Using IAM Tags.

Tags may only contain Unicode letters, digits, white space, or these symbols: _ . : / = + - @.

Type: Array of Tag objects

Required: No

Response Syntax

{ "activityArn": "string", "creationDate": number }

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 created activity.

Type: String

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

creationDate

The date the activity is created.

Type: Timestamp

Errors

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

ActivityLimitExceeded

The maximum number of activities has been reached. Existing activities must be deleted before a new activity can be created.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidName

The provided name is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyTags

You've exceeded the number of tags allowed for a resource. See the Limits Topic in the Amazon Step Functions Developer Guide.

HTTP Status Code: 400

See Also

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