add functionality to make http request to self

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add functionality to make http request to self

ror6ax opened this issue 7 years ago · comments

Gregory Reshetniak commented 7 years ago

URI and FETCH seem to work before the task is run. It would be cool to have a possibility to run a task which is a webserver and get/post to it. Then set status depending on request response.

David Keijser · Answer 1 · Mon Feb 20 2017 19:09:27 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Hi, I'm afraid I don't quite get what you are asking, could you describe a bit more what you are trying to do?

The resources specified in fetch is downloaded by the agent before launching the task so you can not make a request to itself but I'm not sure what good that would do anyway so I this is probably where I misunderstand you.

Gregory Reshetniak · Answer 2 · Mon Feb 20 2017 19:27:42 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

My usecase is that a task is a web application.
I'd like to spin it up using the task, make one http request to it and kill the app.

David Keijser · Answer 3 · Mon Feb 20 2017 19:34:38 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

ok. that should be doable. You can run a webserver if you specify that you need a port to be mapped to your task. Then you can query the task info to see what your endpoint is once the task is running and then you can send a request to it. And then after that cancel the task (or have it exit on it's own after processing that first request).

I think this should all be possible already by using the API as it looks today, the request would have to be sent from the tool that is talking to eremetic