Triggers

The Trigger entity schema contains the necessary information to describe the stream of events that it represents. For more information, see the document “Creating Triggers and Rules”.

Subsections

• Fields
• Requirements
• Notes
• Grammar
• Example

Fields

Requirements

The Trigger name (i.e., MUST be less than or equal to 256 characters.

The Trigger entity schema includes all general Entity Schema fields in addition to any fields declared above.

Notes

• The ‘events’ key name is not supported at this time.
• The Trigger entity within the OpenWhisk programming model is considered outside the scope of the Package (although there are discussions about changing this in the future). This means that Trigger and API information will not be returned when using the OpenWhisk Package API:
  • $ wsk package list <package name>
• However, it may be obtained using the Trigger API:

Grammar

<triggerName>:
  <Entity schema>
  feed: <feed name>
  credential: <Credential>
  inputs:
    <list of parameter>

Example

triggers:
  everyhour:
    feed: /whisk.system/alarms/alarm

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