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Iot Events Actions Structure

Actions schema

Type: array Properties: 0
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Actions is a JSON Structure definition published by Amazon IoT Events. It conforms to the https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/# meta-schema.

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-actions-structure.json",
  "name": "Actions",
  "description": "Actions schema",
  "type": "array",
  "items": {
    "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 ."
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "description": "An action to be performed when the <code>condition</code> is TRUE."
  }
}

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