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Call Workflows from Pages

You can bind and trigger Workflows from Pages Functions by deploying a Workers project with your Workflow definition and then invoking that Worker using service bindings or a standard fetch() call.

Use Service Bindings

Service Bindings allow you to call a Worker from another Worker or a Pages Function without needing to expose it directly.

To do this, you will need to:

  1. Deploy your Workflow in a Worker
  2. Create a Service Binding to that Worker in your Pages project
  3. Call the Worker remotely using the binding

For example, if you have a Worker called workflows-starter, you would create a new Service Binding in your Pages project as follows, ensuring that the service name matches the name of the Worker your Workflow is defined in:

{
  "services": [
    {
      "binding": "WORKFLOW_SERVICE",
      "service": "workflows-starter"
    }
  ]
}

Your Worker can expose a specific method (or methods) that only other Workers or Pages Functions can call over the Service Binding.

In the following example, we expose a specific createInstance method that accepts our Payload and returns the InstanceStatus from the Workflows API:

index.js
import { WorkerEntrypoint } from "cloudflare:workers";


export default class WorkflowsService extends WorkerEntrypoint {
  // Currently, entrypoints without a named handler are not supported
  async fetch() {
    return new Response(null, { status: 404 });
  }


  async createInstance(payload) {
    let instance = await this.env.MY_WORKFLOW.create({
      params: payload,
    });


    return Response.json({
      id: instance.id,
      details: await instance.status(),
    });
  }
}

Your Pages Function would resemble the following:

functions/request.js
export const onRequest = async (context) => {
  // This payload could be anything from within your app or from your frontend
  let payload = { hello: "world" };
  return context.env.WORKFLOWS_SERVICE.createInstance(payload);
};

To learn more about binding to resources from Pages Functions, including how to bind via the Cloudflare dashboard, refer to the bindings documentation for Pages Functions.

Using fetch

An alternative to setting up a Service Binding is to call the Worker over HTTP by using the Workflows Workers API to create a new Workflow instance for each incoming HTTP call to the Worker:

index.js
// This is in the same file as your Workflow definition
export default {
  async fetch(req, env) {
    let instance = await env.MY_WORKFLOW.create({
      params: payload,
    });
    return Response.json({
      id: instance.id,
      details: await instance.status(),
    });
  },
};

Your Pages Function can then make a regular fetch call to the Worker:

functions/request.js
export const onRequest = async (context) => {
  // Other code
  let payload = { hello: "world" };
  const instanceStatus = await fetch("https://YOUR_WORKER.workers.dev/", {
    method: "POST",
    body: JSON.stringify(payload), // Send a payload for our Worker to pass to the Workflow
  });


  return Response.json(instanceStatus);
};

You can also choose to authenticate these requests by passing a shared secret in a header and validating that in your Worker.

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