Step Functions Local with Boto3

Question

Hello,

I am working with AWS Step Functions and we are exploring the testing options. AWS Step Functions local seems like the way to go. I have tested it out locally as outlined in [this guide](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/mocking-service-integrations-with-aws-step-functions-local/), which works well. That requires using the AWS CLI to interact with SFN local. We are a Python shop so being able to continue using boto3 for interactions with AWS would be great. Is there anyway to use boto3 to query the local SFNs? I haven't seen any documentation about this and I've tried but the latest boto3 (1.24.71) doesn't seem to know about endpoints.

Thanks

Accepted Answer

Hi,

I believe you can specify the endpoints as follows

```
import boto3

client = boto3.client('stepfunctions', endpoint_url='http://localhost:8083')
```

https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/reference/core/session.html

Answer

I don't think there is a way and I must say that I do not understand why you need it. We are talking about testing the state machine. So all you need to do is create the input JSON and invoke it locally. You are not running integration tests locally which require some other service to invoke the state machine.

Step Functions Local with Boto3

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