TriggerRule use case for wskdeploy

Package description

This Package named triggerrule includes:

• An action named “greeting”. It accepts two parameters “name” and “place” and will return a greeting message “Hello, name from place!”
• A trigger named as “locationUpdate”
• A rule named “myRule” to associate the trigger with the action.

How to deploy and test

Step 1. Deploy the package.

$ wskdeploy -p tests/usecases/triggerrule

Step 2. Verify the action is installed.

$ wsk action list

{
  "name": "greeting",
  "publish": false,
  "annotations": [{
    "key": "exec",
    "value": "nodejs:6"
  }],
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "namespace": "<namespace>/triggerrule"
}

Step 3. Verify the action's last activation (ID) before invoking.

$ wsk activation list --limit 1 greeting

activations
3b80ec50d934464faedc04bc991f8673 greeting

Step 4. Invoke the trigger

$ wsk trigger fire locationUpdate --param name Bernie --param place "Washington, D.C."

ok: triggered /_/locationUpdate with id 5f8f26928c384afd85f47281bf85b302

Step 5. Verify the action is invoked

$ wsk activation list --limit 2 greeting

activations
a2b5cb1076b24c1885c018bb46f4e990 greeting
3b80ec50d934464faedc04bc991f8673 greeting

Indeed a new activation was listed.