Ability to delete jobs

Question

Ability to delete jobs

wnoronha opened this issue 14 years ago · comments

Warren Noronha commented 14 years ago

Would be good to delete a job (well you can do this by Job.find(n).delete

Doing this should also delete the dependent work units (which does not happen)

Warren Noronha · Answer 1 · Thu Jun 10 2010 04:20:13 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Just noticed you have the :dependent attr for the work units..

Jeremy Ashkenas · Answer 2 · Thu Jun 10 2010 06:48:37 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

For automatic job deletion, check out the "Cleaning Up" section on this page:

http://wiki.github.com/documentcloud/cloud-crowd/the-job-api

Warren Noronha · Answer 3 · Thu Jun 10 2010 07:35:12 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

The workflow for this is: User decides to start a scrapper job for domain perl.org. Soon after the jobs/nodes have started processing this request he realizes he wants to scrape pearl.org. Need a clean way to cancel this job.

Jeremy Ashkenas · Answer 4 · Thu Jun 10 2010 07:40:10 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

It's not safe to just delete the job, because a large number of other computers might be right in the middle of processing it. This is something that needs to be handled by your application. I'd recommend having your process method check the status of the model in the database before doing the work (or periodically, while doing it), and aborting if the status of the model is "cancelled".