Is possible to get a project status stuck in an intermediate state

[Steve-Mcl]

Current Behavior

Related to "Difficulty editing project settings when project state is intermediate" #1231 where the settings page was effectively unusable due to status refreshing...

It is possible to get a project stuck on an intermediate state e.g. not stopped/not suspended/not started.

Other notes...

• For the short time my environment was in this state (approx 10 mins) the out.log was littered with around 650 lines containing the following repeated pattern...

Loading project settings
Target state is 'running'
Starting Node-RED
/** snipped for brevity **/
Loading project settings
Target state is 'running'
Starting Node-RED

Expected Behavior

Unsure - perhpas there should be a specific state like "Stalled"?

Steps To Reproduce

1. Stop a project
2. Edit the project settings and add a non-existing NPM package to the packages table
3. Save settings
4. Start the project

Environment

• FlowForge version: 1.0.3-git

[Steve-Mcl]

@hardillb

I would appreciate you testing the PRs for this issue in docker/k8s env if you can?

Steps to test before this PR...

1. Stop a project
2. Edit the project settings and add a non-existing NPM package to the packages table
3. Save settings
4. Start the project
   1. Expect to see state stuck at "installing"

Steps to test after PR is applied...

1. Stop a project
2. Edit the project settings and add a non-existing NPM package to the packages table
3. Save settings
4. Start the project
   1. Expect to see state return to stopped
   2. Expect to see events updated in the "Recent Activity"
5. In the action menu, try to start/restart
   1. Expect to see state return to stopped
   2. Expect to see events updated in the "Recent Activity"

[hardillb]

Works on K8s

[hardillb]

Works on docker

[hardillb]

@Steve-Mcl Only problem is that the page doesn't stop polling when it enters Stopped state so you can't edit the settings again until you reload the page.

[Steve-Mcl]

Tested in both staging an latest git ...