ADF web activity

Question

Hello,
Now that I have completed the ADF pipeline, at the end of it I would like to use a web activity so that it informs external apps that the ADF has completed loading the files successfully.
Question:
Can you please let me know what needs to be done from the external app?
do they need to provide a url or something like that and the web activity to call that url and pass a parameter to say if it failed or succeeded?
Any simple example to see how web activity notifies other apps for this requirement?
Thank you

Answer 1

Hello @arkiboys ,

Thanks for the question and using MS Q&A platform.

At this point we are not sure what your external app is. But in general, the implementation totally depends on the capabilities of your external application, if your app exposes an endpoint (nothing but an endpoint URL through which you can pass the parameters) then you will have to pass the respective fileds to the endpoint using ADF web activity. In case if your external app can read data from blob, then you can write a blob with few details about the competition of the pipeline like pipeline name, pipeline runID, status, etc. In a similar way if your pipeline can read from SQL then you can write the pipeline completion details to SQL and then your external app can read it. If you have custom code that can pass the message to your external app, then you may also use a Custom activity or an Azure Function Activity inside your ADF pipeline.

• I see that this has also been discussed here in this thread - adf completed - notification

do they need to provide a url or something like that and the web activity to call that url and pass a parameter to say if it failed or succeeded?

Yes, you are correct, an endpoint URL is needed to pass the message/content to your external app.

As your external app is generic at this point, you may consider any of the above discussed scenarios as per your requirement.

Hope this will help. Please let us know if any further queries.

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