Trigger Flow

Manually trigger a workflow schedule.

Prerequisites

  • The user must be the owner of the workflow.
  • Both the user and the workflow are not locked.

Request Format

POST https://{apigw-address}/dataflow-batch-service/v2.0/flows

Request Parameters (URI)

Name Location (Path/Query) Mandatory/Optional Data Type Description
userId Query Mandatory String The user ID. How to get userId>>
orgId Query Mandatory String The organization ID which the user belongs to. How to get orgId>>
action Query Mandatory String Fixed value: trigger

Request Parameters (Body)

Name Mandatory/Optional Data Type Description
flowId Mandatory Integer The workflow ID.
triggerTime Mandatory Long

Specify the trigger time of the workflow, keeping in mind the following rules:

  • If the triggering time is before the current time, the workflow will be triggered immediately, and the triggering time will be passed into the time parameters for calculation.
  • The workflow only allows one instance to run at any one time. If the pre-run instance conflicts with a running instance, it will be executed in sequence.

Response Parameters

Name Data Type Description
data FlowInstanceId Struct The details of a workflow instance. For more information, see FlowInstanceId Struct

FlowInstanceId Struct

Sample

{
  "flowInstanceId": "2430-20190718075000"
}

Parameters

Name Data Type Description
flowInstanceId String The ID of the workflow instance.

Error Code

Code Message Description
62104 This workflow has no task. You cannot trigger it. The workflow does not have any task for you to trigger.
62109 Server internal exception Internal server exception.

For other error codes, see Common Error Codes.

Samples

Request Sample

url: https://{apigw-address}/dataflow-batch-service/v2.0/flows?action=trigger&userId=yourUserId&orgId=yourOrgId
method: POST
{
  "flowId":3377,
  "triggerTime":1574385824000
}

Return Sample

{
  "status": 0,
  "msg": " Success",
  "data": {
    "flowInstanceId": "2791-19700101000000"
  }
}

SDK Samples


You can access the SDK samples for batch processing service on GitHub: