Are EventBridge events (fully) passed to Glue Workflows?

Question

Starting a Glue workflow with an EventBridge event set only (as Run properties) the IDs of the events that started the workflow. Are passing the full EventBridge events supported in Glue Workflows?

Answer

I'm not sure I understand your question. Did you follow the instructions here?

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/dg/starting-workflow-eventbridge.html

Answer

There is no native option to pass EventBridge event details to Glue job. But  I used the following workaround to do this:

1. You need to get an event ID from Glue workflow properties
```
event_id = glue_client.get_workflow_run_properties(Name=self.args['WORKFLOW_NAME'],
                       RunId=self.args['WORKFLOW_RUN_ID'])['RunProperties']['aws:eventIds'][1:-1]
```
2. Get all NotifyEvent events for the last several minutes. It's up to you to decide how much time can pass between the workflow start and  your job start.
```
response = event_client.lookup_events(LookupAttributes=[{'AttributeKey': 'EventName',
                                                         'AttributeValue': 'NotifyEvent'}],
                                                         StartTime=(datetime.datetime.now() - datetime.timedelta(minutes=5)),
                                                         EndTime=datetime.datetime.now())['Events']
```
3. Check which event has an enclosed event with the event ID we get from Glue workflow.
```
for i in range(len(response)):
      event_payload = json.loads(response[i]['CloudTrailEvent'])['requestParameters']['eventPayload']
      if event_payload['eventId'] == event_id:
                event = json.loads(event_payload['eventBody'])
```
In the event variable you get the full content of the event that triggered Glue workflow.

Are EventBridge events (fully) passed to Glue Workflows?

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