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Trigger

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Trigger - AWS Glue

Information about a specific trigger.

Contents

Actions

The actions initiated by this trigger.

Type: Array of Action objects

Required: No

Description

A description of this trigger.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 2048.

Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\r\n\t]*

Required: No

EventBatchingCondition

Batch condition that must be met (specified number of events received or batch time window expired) before EventBridge event trigger fires.

Type: EventBatchingCondition object

Required: No

Id

Reserved for future use.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.

Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\t]*

Required: No

Name

The name of the trigger.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.

Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\t]*

Required: No

Predicate

The predicate of this trigger, which defines when it will fire.

Type: Predicate object

Required: No

Schedule

A cron expression used to specify the schedule (see Time-Based Schedules for Jobs and Crawlers. For example, to run something every day at 12:15 UTC, you would specify: cron(15 12 * * ? *).

Type: String

Required: No

State

The current state of the trigger.

Type: String

Valid Values: CREATING | CREATED | ACTIVATING | ACTIVATED | DEACTIVATING | DEACTIVATED | DELETING | UPDATING

Required: No

Type

The type of trigger that this is.

Type: String

Valid Values: SCHEDULED | CONDITIONAL | ON_DEMAND | EVENT

Required: No

WorkflowName

The name of the workflow associated with the trigger.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 255.

Pattern: [\u0020-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFFFD\uD800\uDC00-\uDBFF\uDFFF\t]*

Required: No

See Also

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

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