Send a signal to an workflow

Always targets the latest run; runId cannot be pinned for Temporal signal operations.

POST /workflow/{id}/signal/{signal}

Send a signal to an workflow

cURL

curl --request POST \
  --url http://localhost:3001/workflow/{id}/signal/{signal} \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "payload": {}
}'

import requests

url = "http://localhost:3001/workflow/{id}/signal/{signal}"

payload = { "payload": {} }
headers = {"Content-Type": "application/json"}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({payload: {}})
};

fetch('http://localhost:3001/workflow/{id}/signal/{signal}', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_PORT => "3001",
  CURLOPT_URL => "http://localhost:3001/workflow/{id}/signal/{signal}",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'payload' => [
        
    ]
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Content-Type: application/json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "http://localhost:3001/workflow/{id}/signal/{signal}"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"payload\": {}\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("http://localhost:3001/workflow/{id}/signal/{signal}")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"payload\": {}\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("http://localhost:3001/workflow/{id}/signal/{signal}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"payload\": {}\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

400

{
  "error": "ValidationError",
  "message": "Invalid Payload",
  "issues": [
    {}
  ]
}

{
  "error": "<string>",
  "message": "<string>",
  "workflowId": "<string>"
}

{
  "error": "<string>",
  "message": "<string>",
  "workflowId": "<string>"
}

Path Parameters

id · string · required

The workflow id

signal · string · required

The signal name

Body

application/json

Body must contain payload; payload is sent to Temporal

payload · object

The payload sent to the signal operation

Response

200

Success