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Execution Context

The Execution Context provides a JSON representation of a Studio Flow and its widgets at the time of a given Execution.

Context Properties

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Property nameTypeRequiredPIIDescriptionChild properties
accountSidSID<AC>

Optional

Not PII

The SID of the Account that created the ExecutionContext resource.

Pattern: ^AC[0-9a-fA-F]{32}$Min length: 34Max length: 34
context

Optional

PII MTL: 30 days

The current state of the Flow's Execution. As a flow executes, we save its state in this context. We save data that your widgets can access as variables in configuration fields or in text areas as variable substitution.

flowSidSID<FW>

Optional

Not PII

The SID of the Flow.

Pattern: ^FW[0-9a-fA-F]{32}$Min length: 34Max length: 34
executionSidSID<FN>

Optional

Not PII

The SID of the context's Execution resource.

Pattern: ^FN[0-9a-fA-F]{32}$Min length: 34Max length: 34
urlstring<uri>

Optional

Not PII

The absolute URL of the resource.

Fetch a single execution context

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GET https://studio.twilio.com/v2/Flows/{FlowSid}/Executions/{ExecutionSid}/Context

Path parameters

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Property nameTypeRequiredPIIDescription
flowSidSID<FW>
required
Not PII

The SID of the Flow with the Execution context to fetch.

Pattern: ^FW[0-9a-fA-F]{32}$Min length: 34Max length: 34
executionSidSID<FN>
required
Not PII

The SID of the Execution context to fetch.

Pattern: ^FN[0-9a-fA-F]{32}$Min length: 34Max length: 34
Fetch Execution ContextLink to code sample: Fetch Execution Context
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// Download the helper library from https://www.twilio.com/docs/node/install

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const twilio = require("twilio"); // Or, for ESM: import twilio from "twilio";

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// Find your Account SID and Auth Token at twilio.com/console

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// and set the environment variables. See http://twil.io/secure

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const accountSid = process.env.TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID;

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const authToken = process.env.TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN;

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const client = twilio(accountSid, authToken);

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async function fetchExecutionContext() {

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  const executionContext = await client.studio.v2

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    .flows("FWXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX")

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    .executions("FNXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX")

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    .executionContext()

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    .fetch();

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  console.log(executionContext.accountSid);

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}

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fetchExecutionContext();

Response

Note about this response
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{

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  "account_sid": "ACaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",

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  "context": {

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    "foo": "bar"

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  },

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  "flow_sid": "FWXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",

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  "execution_sid": "FNXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",

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  "url": "https://studio.twilio.com/v2/Flows/FWaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/Executions/FNaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/Context"

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}