WORKFLOW-199: polling every X seconds for job completion

Author: bahamas10

lib/api.js

@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ var API = module.exports = function (opts) {
 
     var log;
 
+    var waiting = {};
+
     if (opts.log) {
         log = opts.log({
             component: 'workflow-api'
@@ -72,6 +74,12 @@ var API = module.exports = function (opts) {
         version: '0.1.0'
     };
 
+    var JOB_DONE_PATH = '/jobdone';
+    var JOB_DONE_ROUTE = {
+        path: JOB_DONE_PATH,
+        version: '0.1.0'
+    };
+
     var JOBS_PATH = '/jobs';
     var JOB_PATH = JOBS_PATH + '/:uuid';
     var JOBS_ROUTE = {
@@ -279,7 +287,10 @@ var API = module.exports = function (opts) {
 
         return factory.workflow(workflow, meta, function (err, result) {
             if (err) {
-                return next(err.toRestError);
+                if (typeof (err) === 'string')
+                    return next(new Error(err));
+                else
+                    return next(err.toRestError || err);
             }
             res.header('Location', req.path() + '/' + result.uuid);
             // If Request-Id hasn't been set, we'll set it to workflow UUID:
@@ -497,8 +508,8 @@ var API = module.exports = function (opts) {
             params: {}
         };
         var meta = {};
-        var members = ['exec_after', 'workflow', 'target', 'num_attempts',
-                        'uuid', 'locks'];
+        var members = ['callback_urls', 'exec_after', 'workflow', 'target',
+                        'num_attempts', 'uuid', 'locks'];
 
         var job_members = [];
         if (typeof (opts.api.job_extra_params) !== 'undefined') {
@@ -534,9 +545,23 @@ var API = module.exports = function (opts) {
                 res.header('request-id',  result.uuid);
             }
             res.header('Location', req.path() + '/' + result.uuid);
+
             res.status(201);
-            res.send(result);
-            return next();
+            if (req.params.wait) {
+                log.info({req: req, job: result.uuid},
+                    'holding onto request for job %s', result.uuid);
+                waiting[result.uuid] = {
+                    req: req,
+                    res: res,
+                    next: next
+                };
+                // flush headers (so they have the UUID as the location header)
+                res.write('\n');
+                return undefined;
+            } else {
+                res.send(result);
+                return next();
+            }
         });
     }
 
@@ -677,6 +702,29 @@ var API = module.exports = function (opts) {
             }
         });
     }
+
+    function jobDone(req, res, next) {
+        var job = req.params;
+        // end the incoming request
+        res.send(job.uuid ? 200 : 400);
+        next();
+
+        // end any waiting requests
+        if (job.uuid && waiting[job.uuid]) {
+            log.info('ending waiting request for %s', job.uuid);
+            var o = waiting[job.uuid];
+
+            // res.send and res.format won't work here because headers were
+            // flushed by writing a newline to the socket.  instead, we format
+            // the data ourselves and ship it off by assuming the user wanted
+            // JSON.  this is really lame.  XXX
+            o.res.end(JSON.stringify(job));
+            o.next();
+            delete waiting[job.uuid];
+        }
+
+    }
+
     // --- Routes
     // Workflows:
     server.get(WORKFLOWS_ROUTE, listWorkflows);
@@ -706,6 +754,8 @@ var API = module.exports = function (opts) {
     server.get(JOB_INFO_ROUTE, getInfo);
     server.head(JOB_INFO_ROUTE, getInfo);
     server.post(JOB_INFO_ROUTE, postInfo);
+    // Job done (callback):
+    server.post(JOB_DONE_ROUTE, jobDone);
     // Ping:
     server.get(PING_ROUTE, function (req, res, next) {
         var data = {

lib/job-runner.js

@@ -62,9 +62,8 @@ var WorkflowJobRunner = module.exports = function (opts) {
     // pointer to child process forked by runTask
     var child = null;
     // Properties of job object which a task should not be allowed to modify:
-    // Properties of job object which a task should not be allowed to modify:
     var frozen_props = [
-        'chain', 'chain_results', 'onerror', 'onerror_results',
+        'callback_urls', 'chain', 'chain_results', 'onerror', 'onerror_results',
         'exec_after', 'timeout', 'elapsed', 'uuid', 'workflow_uuid',
         'name', 'execution', 'num_attempts', 'max_attempts', 'initial_delay',
         'max_delay', 'prev_attempt', 'oncancel', 'oncancel_results',
@@ -90,6 +89,10 @@ var WorkflowJobRunner = module.exports = function (opts) {
         job.chain_results = [];
     }
 
+    if (!job.callback_urls) {
+        job.callback_urls = [];
+    }
+
     if (job.onerror && !job.onerror_results) {
         job.onerror_results = [];
     }