| How to interactively waiting for background jobs? [solved] [message #1258537] |
Thu, 27 February 2014 13:38  |
 Jens Rabe
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Hello,
when I have a long-running job and the user does an action which needs this job to complete before, I want to display the "Waiting for background jobs to complete" with the option to cancel the action the user currently wants to do, as it is done in Eclipse e.g. when a lengthy build is in progress and I want to save a file.
How do I achieve this? As I read in the documentation, a simple join() on the job simply blocks the current thread. Unfortunately, I found nothing about that searching the web.
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| Re: How to interactively waiting for background jobs? [message #1260343 is a reply to message #1258537] |
Sat, 01 March 2014 10:48  |
Jens Rabe
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I found the answer myself after doing some googling, source-digging and single-stepping. The answer is using scheduling rules. Unfortunately, the documentation and wiki are not that comprehensive on that topic, but here is how I solved it:
For our data model, there is a known set of dependencies which jobs should be put on hold while certain objects are worked on. I transferred this into a set of simple scheduling rules as follows:
Rule 1 contains Rule 2 if either
- both rules are for the same object, or
- Rule 2's object is "reachable" from Rule 1's by traversing the dependency graph from the latter one.
Rule 1 conflicts Rule 2 if either rule contains the other one.
Applying these rules to my jobs yield the desired execution sequence, and using IJobManager.beginRule causes the "Waiting for background jobs to complete" dialog to pop up, and conflicting jobs to be held until I issue IJobManager.endRule.
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