Opened 16 years ago
Closed 16 years ago
#1064 closed enhancement (fixed)
Add support for dry-run to the plug-in system
| Reported by: | Nicklas Nordborg | Owned by: | Nicklas Nordborg |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | BASE 2.8 |
| Component: | core | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: |
Description (last modified by )
There is a wish in ticket #1028 that it should be possible to run a plug-in in dry-run mode. In principle it is not very complicated since the plug-in only has to skip the call to DbControl.commit() and no changes will be saved to the database.
The problem is what to do after the dry-run. If everything is ok, the user will probably want to run the plug-in again but without the dry-run flag. If there was a problem, the user wants to change the parameters. Neither of this is currently possible. The only workaround is to start with a new job with the same parameters (except for the dry-run flag). This kind of limits the usefulness of a dry-run flag since it is error-prone to have to enter the same parameters a second time.
The first case (everything is ok) can be solved by introducing a new return status for jobs: DONE_DRY_RUN. This could be used to trigger a "Run again" button in the GUI that runs the plug-in without the dry-run flag.
The second case is (failure) is more problematic and is covered in a separate ticket #1082.
Change History (4)
comment:1 by , 16 years ago
| Milestone: | → BASE 2.8 |
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| Owner: | changed from to |
| Status: | new → assigned |
comment:2 by , 16 years ago
| Description: | modified (diff) |
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comment:3 by , 16 years ago
comment:4 by , 16 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
The context information we need to re-configure a failed job is only three new fields: itemType, contextType and subcontext. If this information is stored together with the job it should be possible to re-configure it.