[Engine-devel] RFE: Actions on tasks (jobs)

[Shireesh Anjal]

Hi,

We plan to introduce support for gluster tasks in oVirt, using the 
current Jobs/steps framework. Which means, any gluster async task 
started on a cluster will be shown as a Job in the "Tasks" tab. While 
this helps in listing and monitoring the status of all gluster tasks, we 
have a requirement to support a set of actions on such tasks. One should 
be able to select a task, and then, if supported for that task, perform 
one or more of the following actions on it:

- pause
- resume
- abort
- commit

I think this can probably be achieved by introducing a generic mechanism 
for performing actions on task, allowing each type of task to define 
what actions are allowed on it in it's current state.

Requesting opinions/suggestions on possible ways to achieve this 
requirement.

Thanks,
Shireesh