Review and Test

Lets look at what we built and then run our workflow with the local development server.

Review

The file system should look something like

\ src
   | approval-job.ts
   | approval-process.ts
   | complete-job.ts
   | index.ts
   | job-approved.ts
   | submit-job.ts
   \ wait-for-approval.ts

And this is what we created:

Test Locally

Now lets test our new service locally. After this we'll deploy to AWS and test it there.

Notice the --local flag on all of the calls. We'll remove this later when we deploy to AWS.

First make sure your watch command ([npx]|[yarn]|[pnpm] watch) is still running or restart it.

Next restart the local command

npx eventual local

Now we'll use our service locally:

npx eventual invoke submitJob "this is my job description" --local

Grab the jobId that was returned, remember that the job id is also out execution id.

Check the status of the workflow

npx eventual get execution [job id] --local

It should say IN_PROGRESS because it is waiting for the approval task to complete. We can make that happen by invoking completeJob.

npx eventual invoke completeJob '{ "jobId": "[job id]", "approved": true }' --local

Now if you run:

npx eventual get execution [job id] --local

The result should look something like

[jobId]
Status: SUCCEEDED
StartTime: 2023-04-05T02:35:37.757Z
EndTime: 2023-04-05T02:35:54.251Z
Result:
Job was approved

You can see the details of the workflow run by running:

npx eventual get history -e [job id] --local

Which should output something like

✔ Getting execution history
2023-04-05T02:53:02.473Z        WorkflowStarted
2023-04-05T02:53:03.940Z        WorkflowRunStarted
2023-04-05T02:53:03.940Z        WorkflowRunCompleted
2023-04-05T02:53:03.940Z        TaskScheduled(0)
Task Name: "waitForApproval"
2023-04-05T02:54:03.554Z        TaskSucceeded(0)
Result: true
2023-04-05T02:54:03.731Z        WorkflowRunStarted
2023-04-05T02:54:03.731Z        WorkflowRunCompleted
2023-04-05T02:54:03.731Z        WorkflowSucceeded
Output: "Job was approved"
2023-04-05T02:54:03.731Z        EventsEmitted(1)