Trigger Conditions¶

In the previous sections, you have been dealing with just a single dependency. But, in many cases, you want to wait for multiple events to occur and then trigger a resource which means you need a mechanism to determine which triggers to execute based on set of different event dependencies. This mechanism is supported through conditions.

Note: Whenever you define multiple dependencies in a sensor, the sensor applies a AND operation, meaning, it will wait for all dependencies to resolve before it executes triggers. conditions can modify that behavior.

Prerequisite¶

Minio server must be set up in the argo-events namespace with a bucket called test and it should be available at minio-service.argo-events:9000.

Conditions¶

Consider a scenario where you have a Webhook and Minio event-source, and you want to trigger an Argo workflow if the sensor receives an event from the Webhook event-source, but, another workflow if it receives an event from the Minio event-source.

Create the webhook event-source and event-source. The event-source listens to HTTP requests on port 12000.

kubectl -n argo-events apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/argoproj/argo-events/stable/examples/tutorials/06-trigger-conditions/webhook-event-source.yaml

Create the minio event-source. The event-source listens to events of type PUT and DELETE for objects in bucket test.

kubectl -n argo-events apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/argoproj/argo-events/stable/examples/tutorials/06-trigger-conditions/minio-event-source.yaml

Make sure there are no errors in any of the event-sources.

Let's create the sensor. If you take a closer look at the trigger templates, you will notice that it contains a field named conditions, which is a boolean expression containing dependency names. So, as soon as the expression is resolved as true, the corresponding trigger will be executed.
```
 kubectl -n argo-events apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/argoproj/argo-events/stable/examples/tutorials/06-trigger-conditions/sensor-01.yaml
```

Send an HTTP request to Webhook event-source.

curl -d '{"message":"this is my first webhook"}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST http://localhost:12000/example

You will notice an Argo workflow with name group-1-xxxx is created with following output,
```
this is my first webhook
```
Now, lets generate a Minio event so that we can run group-2-xxxx workflow. Drop a file onto test bucket. The workflow that will get created will print the name of the bucket as follows,
```
test
```
Great!! You have now learned how to use conditions. Lets update the sensor with a trigger that waits for both dependencies to resolve. This is the normal sensor behavior if conditions is not defined.
```
 kubectl -n argo-events apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/argoproj/argo-events/stable/examples/tutorials/06-trigger-conditions/sensor-02.yaml
```
Send an HTTP request and perform a file drop on Minio bucket as done above. You should get the following output.
```
this is my first webhook test
```