Amazon IoT Events · JSON Structure

Iot Events Action Structure

An action to be performed when the condition is TRUE.

Type: object Properties: 13
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Action is a JSON Structure definition published by Amazon IoT Events, describing 13 properties. It conforms to the https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/# meta-schema.

Properties

setVariable sns iotTopicPublish setTimer clearTimer resetTimer lambda iotEvents sqs firehose dynamoDB dynamoDBv2 iotSiteWise

Meta-schema: https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/#

JSON Structure

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{
  "$schema": "https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/#",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-iot-events/refs/heads/main/json-structure/iot-events-action-structure.json",
  "name": "Action",
  "description": "An action to be performed when the <code>condition</code> is TRUE.",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "setVariable": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/SetVariableAction"
        },
        {
          "description": "Sets a variable to a specified value."
        }
      ]
    },
    "sns": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/SNSTopicPublishAction"
        },
        {
          "description": "Sends an Amazon SNS message."
        }
      ]
    },
    "iotTopicPublish": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/IotTopicPublishAction"
        },
        {
          "description": "Publishes an MQTT message with the given topic to the AWS IoT message broker."
        }
      ]
    },
    "setTimer": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/SetTimerAction"
        },
        {
          "description": "Information needed to set the timer."
        }
      ]
    },
    "clearTimer": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/ClearTimerAction"
        },
        {
          "description": "Information needed to clear the timer."
        }
      ]
    },
    "resetTimer": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/ResetTimerAction"
        },
        {
          "description": "Information needed to reset the timer."
        }
      ]
    },
    "lambda": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/LambdaAction"
        },
        {
          "description": "Calls a Lambda function, passing in information about the detector model instance and the event that triggered the action."
        }
      ]
    },
    "iotEvents": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/IotEventsAction"
        },
        {
          "description": "Sends AWS IoT Events input, which passes information about the detector model instance and the event that triggered the action."
        }
      ]
    },
    "sqs": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/SqsAction"
        },
        {
          "description": "Sends information about the detector model instance and the event that triggered the action to an Amazon SQS queue."
        }
      ]
    },
    "firehose": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/FirehoseAction"
        },
        {
          "description": "Sends information about the detector model instance and the event that triggered the action to an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream."
        }
      ]
    },
    "dynamoDB": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/DynamoDBAction"
        },
        {
          "description": "Writes to the DynamoDB table that you created. The default action payload contains all attribute-value pairs that have the information about the detector model instance and the event that triggered the action. You can customize the <a href=\"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iotevents/latest/apireference/API_Payload.html\">payload</a>. One column of the DynamoDB table receives all attribute-value pairs in the payload that you specify. For more information, see <a href=\"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iotevents/latest/developerguide/iotevents-event-actions.html\">Actions</a> in <i>AWS IoT Events Developer Guide</i>."
        }
      ]
    },
    "dynamoDBv2": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/DynamoDBv2Action"
        },
        {
          "description": "Writes to the DynamoDB table that you created. The default action payload contains all attribute-value pairs that have the information about the detector model instance and the event that triggered the action. You can customize the <a href=\"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iotevents/latest/apireference/API_Payload.html\">payload</a>. A separate column of the DynamoDB table receives one attribute-value pair in the payload that you specify. For more information, see <a href=\"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/iotevents/latest/developerguide/iotevents-event-actions.html\">Actions</a> in <i>AWS IoT Events Developer Guide</i>."
        }
      ]
    },
    "iotSiteWise": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/IotSiteWiseAction"
        },
        {
          "description": "Sends information about the detector model instance and the event that triggered the action to an asset property in AWS IoT SiteWise ."
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

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