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Returns information about the specified workflow execution including its type and some statistics.

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

Access Control

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

  • Use a Resource element with the domain name to limit the action to only specified domains.

  • Use an Action element to allow or deny permission to call this action.

  • You cannot use an IAM policy to constrain this action's parameters.

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.

post/#X-Amz-Target=SimpleWorkflowService.DescribeWorkflowExecution

Headers

X-Amz-Target'SimpleWorkflowService.DescribeWorkflowExecution' required

Request body

domainstring required

The name of the domain containing the workflow execution.

Response

Success

latestActivityTaskTimestampstring date-time

The time when the last activity task was scheduled for this workflow execution. You can use this information to determine if the workflow has not made progress for an unusually long period of time and might require a corrective action.

latestExecutionContextstring

The latest executionContext provided by the decider for this workflow execution. A decider can provide an executionContext (a free-form string) when closing a decision task using <a>RespondDecisionTaskCompleted</a>.