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Wait

"type" : "WAIT"

Introduction​

WAIT is used when the workflow needs to be paused for an external signal to continue.

Use Cases​

WAIT is used when the workflow needs to wait and pause for an external signal such as a human intervention (like manual approval) or an event coming from external source such as Kafka, SQS or Conductor's internal queueing mechanism.

Some use cases where WAIT task is used:

  1. To add a human approval task. When the task is approved/rejected by human WAIT task is updated using POST /tasks API to completion.
  2. To wait for and external signal coming from an event queue mechanism supported by Conductor

Configuration​

  • taskType: WAIT
  • There are no other configurations required