262 questions
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Does Amazon Cloudformation support SWF domains, workflow types and activity types?
I am struggling to find any documentation or examples of a cloudformation template for a SWF domain, workflow types and activity types.
2 votes
1 answer
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Break out of loop in AWS SWF activity
I'm running permanent loop in SWF Activity. Say like a web crawler crawling a website www.example1.com. However, I don't want to wait until it finishes crawling, but at certain time I want to ...
6 votes
1 answer
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How to implement manual approval in AWS Step Functions? What's the recommended workflow engine between SWF and Step Functions?
Step Functions now support callback features to support manual approval. I wanted to know how the task token is generated and if we can pass our own task token string so that we do not require to ...
8 votes
3 answers
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Open Source Equivalent of AWS Flow Framework [closed]
There many workflow system out there but I was wondering which one of the open source workflow management system is the closest to the AWS Flow Framework (with Amazon SWF like capability build in)?
0 votes
1 answer
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Amazon Simple Workflow - Given workflowID List all executions
Workflow when started again, with the same workflowID, but it gets a different runID. Is there a way to retrieve such executions (containing different runID) of a given workflow ID? I explored ...
1 vote
2 answers
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How are Amazon SWF signals intended to be processed?
So, I have a scenario in which I periodically call SignalWorkflowExecution() passing in a request for work flow signalling. In the Decider I have coded, I see it then receive on its next poll request, ...
0 votes
1 answer
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Amazon Simple Workflow and child workflow
I am trying to run a childworkflow from a workflow in amazon simple workflow service using java flow framework for AWS. Below is the main workflow implementation code: package SWF.ChildWorkFlow; ...
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2 answers
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MDC value missing from log
My app is running on amazon SWF and I want to be able to see all the logs of a specific request using an slf4j MDC. For some code flows I see the MDC in the logs, but for some they are missing, for ...
1 vote
2 answers
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AWS SWF - activities client generation not working (Maven, IntelliJ)
I'm working through the SWF tutorial right now and trying to get GreeterActivitiesClient in GreeterWorkFlowImpl. I'm getting "Cannot resolve symbol" error for the Client and the ClientImpl. ...
1 vote
1 answer
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Aws cdk for simple workflow (SWF) domain
I am using CDK for deployment of SWF application. SWF workflow and activities are getting created when I start the worker. I am searching about how to create swf domain using CDK instead of creating ...
9 votes
4 answers
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How do I register a microservice (or its methods) to Task in Netflix Conductor?
I was looking for a more sophisticated workflow than Saga from AxonFramework -- which we are currently using -- and I found one in Netflix Conductor. Sadly, I have searched the Internet for a decent ...
0 votes
1 answer
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Do we need to increase activity version in SWF for increasing its timeout?
We have an existing workflow where we need to increase timeout for an activity (Start to Close) to enable an urgent processing. Do we require to do a version bump up on activity ?
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Is there any special configuration needed for @ExponentialRetry in AWS FlowFramework of SWF?
I am using @ExponentialRetry on the activity, but it is not retrying the activity. Here is my code in Intellij IDEA. This is my Activities interface @ExponentialRetry( initialRetryIntervalSeconds =...
0 votes
1 answer
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What happens when we call @Execute method of SWF Flow workflow?
I know from the documentation, that when a workflow worker gets a decision task, it executes the whole workflow with replay history by calling the method annotated with @Execute. I am trying to find ...
0 votes
1 answer
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Rerun a failed workflow in SWF
In AWS SWF, if the decider has failed some workflow executions due to SCHEDULE_TO_START timeout in activities, then how can we re-run them both using AWS console and in program? Is there any other ...