Validates the specified pipeline definition to ensure that it is well formed and can be run without error.
Example 1 This example sets an valid pipeline configuration and returns success. POST / HTTP/1.1 Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1 X-Amz-Target: DataPipeline.ValidatePipelineDefinition Content-Length: 936 Host: datapipeline.us-east-1.amazonaws.com X-Amz-Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:49:52 GMT Authorization: AuthParams {"pipelineId": "df-06372391ZG65EXAMPLE", "pipelineObjects": [ {"id": "Default", "name": "Default", "fields": [ {"key": "workerGroup", "stringValue": "MyworkerGroup"} ] }, {"id": "Schedule", "name": "Schedule", "fields": [ {"key": "startDateTime", "stringValue": "2012-09-25T17:00:00"}, {"key": "type", "stringValue": "Schedule"}, {"key": "period", "stringValue": "1 hour"}, {"key": "endDateTime", "stringValue": "2012-09-25T18:00:00"} ] }, {"id": "SayHello", "name": "SayHello", "fields": [ {"key": "type", "stringValue": "ShellCommandActivity"}, {"key": "command", "stringValue": "echo hello"}, {"key": "parent", "refValue": "Default"}, {"key": "schedule", "refValue": "Schedule"} ] } ] } x-amzn-RequestId: 92c9f347-0776-11e2-8a14-21bb8a1f50ef Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1 Content-Length: 18 Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:50:53 GMT {"errored": false} Example 2 This example sets an invalid pipeline configuration and returns the associated set of validation errors. POST / HTTP/1.1 Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1 X-Amz-Target: DataPipeline.ValidatePipelineDefinition Content-Length: 903 Host: datapipeline.us-east-1.amazonaws.com X-Amz-Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:49:52 GMT Authorization: AuthParams {"pipelineId": "df-06372391ZG65EXAMPLE", "pipelineObjects": [ {"id": "Default", "name": "Default", "fields": [ {"key": "workerGroup", "stringValue": "MyworkerGroup"} ] }, {"id": "Schedule", "name": "Schedule", "fields": [ {"key": "startDateTime", "stringValue": "bad-time"}, {"key": "type", "stringValue": "Schedule"}, {"key": "period", "stringValue": "1 hour"}, {"key": "endDateTime", "stringValue": "2012-09-25T18:00:00"} ] }, {"id": "SayHello", "name": "SayHello", "fields": [ {"key": "type", "stringValue": "ShellCommandActivity"}, {"key": "command", "stringValue": "echo hello"}, {"key": "parent", "refValue": "Default"}, {"key": "schedule", "refValue": "Schedule"} ] } ] } x-amzn-RequestId: 496a1f5a-0e6a-11e2-a61c-bd6312c92ddd Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1 Content-Length: 278 Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:50:53 GMT {"errored": true, "validationErrors": [ {"errors": ["INVALID_FIELD_VALUE: 'startDateTime' value must be a literal datetime value."], "id": "Schedule"} ] }