In Atomic Domain Languages an Action is a named XML Element that describes fundamental unit of executable functionality.
An An Action Element can contain following modifiers or attributes:
- Name
- Documentation
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<Action Name="RotateCameraAction" Documentation="Simple Action to Rotate IP-based Camera by x degrees"/> |
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- Triggering an external non-thing event like sending an Email, Tweet, triggering a build etc.
- Receiving data from external source like a Database updates .
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<Action name="EmailAction" documentation="Send Email"> <Workflow Limit="1" Live="1" Timeout="0"> <Task name="Main" while="true"> <Event name="Argument" as="ActionArgument"/> <Invoke name="ReadValue" waitFor="Argument" post="smtp://[%:Event.Argument.Hostname.Value:%]" Hostname="[%:Event.Argument.Hostname.Value:%]"> <Message> <Value> <Port>[%:Event.Argument.Port.Value:%]</Port> <Username>[%:Event.Argument.Username.Value:%]</Username> <Password>[%:Event.Argument.Password.Value:%]</Password> <From>[%:Event.Argument.From.Value:%]</From> <To>[%:Event.Argument.To.Value:%]</To> <CC>[%:Event.Argument.CC.Value:%]</CC> <Subject>[%:Event.Argument.Subject.Value:%]</Subject> <Body>[%:Event.Argument.Body.Value:%]</Body> <StartTLS>[%:Event.Argument.StartTLS.Value:%]</StartTLS> </Value> </Message> </Invoke> </Task> </Workflow> </Action> |
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<Action Name="startSimulatorAc" Documentation="Start the simulator">
<Workflow Limit="1" Live="1" Timeout="-1">
<Task name="Main">
<StartOsWindows>StartProcess.exe cmd.exe "/K c:\Users\Dev\Documents\atomiton\bitbucket\tqlsimulator\build\install\TQLSimulator\bin\TQLSimulator.bat local
-runAsFleetEventsGen eventOptions=10"</StartOsWindows>
<StartOsUnix>bash config/startupscript.sh</StartOsUnix>
<StartOsMac>[:CmdOsUnix:]</StartOsMac>
<StopOsWindows>TaskKill.exe /PID [%:Output.ActionArgument.currentSimulatorState/Known/text():%]</StopOsWindows>
<StopOsUnix>kill [%:Output.ActionArgument.currentSimulatorState/Known/text():%]</StopOsUnix>
<StopOsMac>[:CmdOsUnix:]</StopOsMac>
<Output name="ActionArgument" as="ActionArgument"/>
<Invoke name="startSimulatorAc" waitFor="ActionArgument" skip-if="[%:Output.ActionArgument.currentSimulatorState/starts-with(Value, 'off'):%]"
execute="[:Start[:OsTag:]:]">
</Invoke>
<Output name="ActionResult">
<Value>
<currentSimulatorState>
[%:Invoke/startSimulatorAc/Message/Value/text():%]
</currentSimulatorState>
</Value>
</Output>
<Invoke name="stopSimulatorAc" waitFor="ActionArgument" skip-if="[%:Output.ActionArgument.currentSimulatorState/starts-with(Value, 'on'):%]"
execute="[:Stop[:OsTag:]:]">
</Invoke>
</Task>
</Workflow>
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How is Action Triggered: Starting of an Action is asynchronous and triggered by external / internal event (change of state).
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