Method: googleapis.workflowexecutions.v1beta.projects.locations.workflows.executions.run

Starts a workflow execution and waits for it to finish. This provides a simpler interface to launch a workflow execution than the create() method. Note that run() calls create() to start a new execution, and optionally accepts execution parameters defined in the YAML source code as either integer, float, bool, string, list, or map data types.

This method waits—the workflow execution is paused—until the operation is complete, fails, or times out. The default timeout value is 1800 seconds (30 minutes) and can be changed to a maximum value of 31536000 seconds (one year) for long-running operations using the connector_params field.

The connector uses polling to monitor the long-running operation, which might generate additional billable steps. The polling policy for the long-running operation can be configured. For example, if you set skip_polling to True, the connector invocation call is non-blocking if the initial request succeeds; otherwise, retries might occur.

For more information about connector-specific parameters (connector_params), see Invoke a connector call.

For more information about retries and long-running operations, see Understand connectors.

Note that if skip_polling is set to True, run() doesn't return anything unlike the create() method which returns a response containing an instance of Execution. Otherwise, run() returns the workflow execution's result as a JSON-decoded object.

Arguments

Parameters
workflow_id

string

Required. ID of the workflow.

location

string

Optional location of the workflow. If not present, the location of the current project is used by default.

project_id

string

Optional project ID associated with the workflow. If not present, the current project ID is used by default.

argument Optional execution parameters defined in YAML source code. Supported types include integer, float, bool, string, list, or map.

Raised exceptions

Exceptions
ConnectionError In case of a network problem (such as DNS failure or refused connection).
HttpError If the response status is >= 400 (excluding 429 and 503).
TimeoutError If a long-running operation takes longer to finish than the specified timeout limit.
TypeError If an operation or function receives an argument of the wrong type.
ValueError If an operation or function receives an argument of the right type but an inappropriate value. For example, a negative timeout.
OperationError If a long-running operation finished unsuccessfully.
ResponseTypeError If the long-running operation returned a response of the wrong type.

Response

The workflow execution's result.

Subworkflow snippet

Some fields might be optional or required.

YAML

- run:
    call: googleapis.workflowexecutions.v1beta.projects.locations.workflows.executions.run
    args:
        workflow_id: ...
        location: ...
        project_id: ...
        argument: ...
    result: runResult

JSON

[
  {
    "run": {
      "call": "googleapis.workflowexecutions.v1beta.projects.locations.workflows.executions.run",
      "args": {
        "workflow_id": "...",
        "location": "...",
        "project_id": "...",
        "argument": "..."
      },
      "result": "runResult"
    }
  }
]