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Events and parameters

When a Workflow is triggered, it can receive an optional event. This event can include data that your Workflow can act on, including request details, user data fetched from your database (such as D1 or KV) or from a webhook, or messages from a Queue consumer.

Events are a powerful part of a Workflow, as you often want a Workflow to act on data. Because a given Workflow instance executes durably, events are a useful way to provide a Workflow with data that should be immutable (not changing) and/or represents data the Workflow needs to operate on at that point in time.

Pass parameters to a Workflow

You can pass parameters to a Workflow in two ways:

  • As an optional argument to the create method on a Workflow binding when triggering a Workflow from a Worker.
  • Via the --params flag when using the wrangler CLI to trigger a Workflow.

You can pass any JSON-serializable object as a parameter.

export default {
  async fetch(req: Request, env: Env) {
    let someEvent = { url: req.url, createdTimestamp: Date.now() }
    // Trigger our Workflow
    // Pass our event as the second parameter to the `create` method
    // on our Workflow binding.
    let instance = await env.MY_WORKFLOW.create({
      id: await crypto.randomUUID(),
      params: someEvent
    });


    return Response.json({
      id: instance.id,
      details: await instance.status(),
    });


    return Response.json({ result });
  },
};

To pass parameters via the wrangler command-line interface, pass a JSON string as the second parameter to the workflows trigger sub-command:

Terminal window
npx wrangler@latest workflows trigger workflows-starter '{"some":"data"}'
🚀 Workflow instance "57c7913b-8e1d-4a78-a0dd-dce5a0b7aa30" has been queued successfully

TypeScript and type parameters

By default, the WorkflowEvent passed to the run method of your Workflow definition has a type that conforms to the following, with payload (your data) and timestamp properties:

export type WorkflowEvent<T> = {
  // The data passed as the parameter when the Workflow instance was triggered
  payload: T;
  // The timestamp that the Workflow was triggered
  timestamp: Date;
};

You can optionally type these events by defining your own type and passing it as a type parameter ↗ to the WorkflowEvent:

// Define a type that conforms to the events your Workflow instance is
// instantiated with
interface YourEventType {
  userEmail: string;
  createdTimestamp: number;
  metadata?: Record<string, string>;
}

When you pass your YourEventType to WorkflowEvent as a type parameter, the event.payload property now has the type YourEventType throughout your workflow definition:

src/index.ts
// Import the Workflow definition
import { WorkflowEntrypoint, WorkflowStep, WorkflowEvent} from 'cloudflare:workers';


export class MyWorkflow extends WorkflowEntrypoint {
    // Pass your type as a type parameter to WorkflowEvent
    // The 'payload' property will have the type of your parameter.
    async run(event: WorkflowEvent<YourEventType>, step: WorkflowStep) {
        let state = step.do("my first step", async () => {
          // Access your properties via event.payload
          let userEmail = event.payload.userEmail
          let createdTimestamp = event.payload.createdTimestamp
        })


        step.do("my second step", async () => { /* your code here */ )
    }
}

You can also provide a type parameter to the Workflows type when creating (triggering) a Workflow instance using the create method of the Workers API. Note that this does not propagate type information into the Workflow itself, as TypeScript types are a build-time construct. To provide the type of an incoming WorkflowEvent, refer to the TypeScript and type parameters section of the Workflows documentation.

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