[Kimchi-devel] Support async task query classification

[Aline Manera]

On 08/29/2014 12:26 AM, Royce Lv wrote:
> Problems to solve:
>
>     When we generate the debug reports (or upload/download a storage 
> volume), only the request initiator gets task id, and is able to query 
> task status. We need other users from other browser to have same view 
> as the initiator, which is not possible now.
>
> Solution:
>     1. We add async event information, events will also be classified 
> so that users can subscribe events interest them
>
>     2. We enable reverse mapping (task to resource which generate 
> them) query for users. So that user can find tasks related to a 
> collection:
>     GET /tasks?init_collection=debugreports
>     after take a look at current implementation, we can also query 
> taget_uri
>     GET /tasks?target_uri=r(^/debugreports/*) (need to be encoded)
>

Good explanation, Royce!

I think we can use /tasks?target_uri=<uri-pattern> to do that.
So when loading the UI, we query for the resources to properly display 
them while they are being generated.
I think it is simple to do that now. I also can help coding.

> Since we currently out of support of async events, we may want to add 
> task query for this purpose.
>
> Welcome comments!