Pass Input of Step Function to Glue JOb

Question

I'm trying to pass input from step function to Glue Job. Following is my test state machine,

This is the code I'm using

This is the input I' giving to state machine,

{ "Comment": "Insert your JSON here" }

Issue is that values are not passing to the Glue

Answer 1

The syntax that you are using is not valid. Please check below example or this link for more.

GlueOrchestrationStateMachine:
        Type: "AWS::StepFunctions::StateMachine"
        Properties:
            RoleArn: !GetAtt StepFunctionsServiceRole.Arn
            DefinitionString: !Sub |-
                  {
                    "StartAt": "Glue StartJobRun",
                    "States": {
                      "Glue StartJobRun": {
                        "Type": "Task",
                        "Resource": "arn:aws:states:::glue:startJobRun.sync",
                        "Parameters": {
                          "JobName.$": "$.job_name",
                          "Arguments": {
                              "--REGION.$": "$.arguments.region",
                              "--TABLE_NAME.$": "$.arguments.table_name",
                              "--S3_OUTPUT_BUCKET.$": "$.arguments.s3_output_bucket",
                              "--S3_OUTPUT_KEY_PREFIX.$": "$.arguments.s3_output_key_prefix",
                              "--DATABASE_NAME.$": "$.arguments.database_name"
                          }
                        },
                        "InputPath": "$",
                        "ResultPath": "$.status",
                        "Next": "Start Crawler",
                        "Catch": [
                            {
                              "ErrorEquals": [ "States.ALL" ],
                              "Next": "Job Failure"
                            }
                        ]
                      },
                      
                  }
              }