sugary-sweet state machine syntax

Warning: this is an early stage work-in-progress and is under heavy development.

install

npm i sota

what is sota?

Simple: It's just Amazon State Language... with enough sugar piled on to mask the notoriously bitter aftertaste.

Let's say you saved the following to a file called state-machine.pdn...

arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:12345679:function:foo
arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:12345679:function:bar
[
  [
    arn:aws:states:us-east-1:12345679:activity:a
    arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:12345679:function:a
  ]
  [
    arn:aws:states:us-east-1:12345679:activity:c
    @try [
      arn:aws:states:us-east-1:12345679:activity:d
      arn:aws:states:us-east-1:12345679:activity:c
    ]
    @retry [
      arn:aws:states:us-east-1:12345679:activity:e
    ]
  ]
]
@if [
  [$.foo >= 1565317676]
  arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:12345679:function:foo
  boom
]
@fail boom

And then you ran it through sota like so...

cat state-machine.pdn | sota

Well, if you did that, you'd get the following:

{
  "StartAt": "foo",
  "States": {
    "foo": {
      "Type": "Task",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:12345679:function:foo",
      "ResultPath": "$.foo",
      "Next": "bar"
    },
    "bar": {
      "Type": "Task",
      "Resource": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:12345679:function:bar",
      "ResultPath": "$.bar",
      "Next": "parallel"
    },
    "parallel": {
      "Type": "Parallel",
      "Branches": [
        {
          "StartAt": "a",
          "States": {
            "a": {
              "Type": "Task",
              "Resource": "arn:aws:states:us-east-1:12345679:activity:a",
              "ResultPath": "$.a",
              "Next": "a-1"
            },
            "a-1": {
              "Type": "Task",
              "Resource": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:12345679:function:a",
              "ResultPath": "$.a-1",
              "End": true
            }
          }
        },
        {
          "StartAt": "c",
          "States": {
            "c": {
              "Type": "Task",
              "Resource": "arn:aws:states:us-east-1:12345679:activity:c",
              "ResultPath": "$.c",
              "Next": "d"
            },
            "d": {
              "Type": "Task",
              "Resource": "arn:aws:states:us-east-1:12345679:activity:d",
              "ResultPath": "$.d",
              "Catch": [
                {
                  "ErrorEqual": [
                    "States.ALL"
                  ],
                  "ResultPath": "$.d-error",
                  "Next": "c"
                }
              ],
              "Next": "e"
            },
            "e": {
              "Type": "Task",
              "Resource": "arn:aws:states:us-east-1:12345679:activity:e",
              "ResultPath": "$.e",
              "Retry": [
                {
                  "ErrorEquals": [
                    "States.ALL"
                  ],
                  "MaxAttempts": 3,
                  "IntervalSeconds": 1,
                  "BackoffRate": 1
                }
              ],
              "End": true
            }
          }
        }
      ],
      "Next": "choice"
    },
    "choice": {
      "Type": "Choice",
      "Choices": [
        {
          "Variable": "$.foo",
          "StringGreaterThanEquals": "1565317676",
          "Next": "foo"
        },
        {
          "Variable": "$.foo",
          "NumericGreaterThanEquals": 1565317676,
          "Next": "foo"
        },
        {
          "Variable": "$.foo",
          "TimestampGreaterThanEquals": 1565317676,
          "Next": "foo"
        }
      ],
      "Default": "boom"
    },
    "boom": {
      "Type": "Fail",
      "ResultPath": "$.boom"
    }
  }
}