OpenWhisk Package Specification (HTML)

Portions of the OpenWhisk Packaging Specification, for convenience, are made available here in HTML format. The canonical source for the specification is in PDF format and can be found within this repository:

• https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk-wskdeploy/tree/master/specification

Programming Guide

If you want to learn how to write Packages and Applications using the specification and deploy them using the wskdeploy utility, please read the step-by-step guide:

• “wskdeploy utility by example”

Index

• Parameters - grammar, schema and examples for input and output parameters.
• Parameter Types - supported YAML and OpenWhisk Types.
• Shared Entity Schema - fields that are common among entities in the programming model.
• Packages - grammar, schema and examples for Packages.
• Actions - grammar, schema and examples for Actions.
• Triggers and Rules - grammar, schema and examples for Triggers and Rules.
• Sequences - schema to compose multiple Actions into a sequence.
• Normative & Non-normative References