Enrico Scopelliti

…en how a simple wsk action invoke myAction passes through different stages of the OpenWhisk system. The system itself mainly consists of only two custom components, the Controller and the Invoker. Everything else is already there, developed by so many people out there in the open-source community.

Now you can use the REST API again (start from step 1 again I guess) to actually obtain your activation and thus the result of your action. To do so you’d use

Note how the record contains both the returned result and the logs written. It also contains the start and end time of the invocation of the action. There are more fields in an activation record, this is a stripped down version for simplicity.