[Bug]: Running two instances comingles output

[jacobdadams]

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App Version

1.6.7

Electron Version

25.2.0

Operating System

Windows

What happened?

If two instances of the api client are geocoding at the same time, the output for each contains a mixture of results from each process. Depending on when each one starts and finishes, one output may just have extra rows from the other process, or rows get completely stomped on by the other process.

If independent parallel execution is deemed not supportable, is there a way to check the client is already running?

Steps To Reproduce

1. Start an instance and start geocoding
2. Start another instance and start geocoding another file that will finish first
3. The second file will have rows from the first

Relevant log output

No response

[steveoh]

I'm leaning towards this isn't a bug and only one instance should be run at a time. Do you run more than one instance to make it go faster? That sort of defeats the intention and goals of the app.

[jacobdadams]

I have a bunch of files I need to geocode, so I was trying to do them in parallel. I was curious if it would let me open a second instance and what the result would be.

[stdavis]

This is where a CLI would be nice.

[steveoh]

Explain your thoughts on a cli?

[stdavis]

I'm not sure if this is possible. But it would be cool if this app came with a cli. So that you could run a job from the command line.

ugrc-api-client geocode ./Addresses.csv

I'm not sure how the field mapping would work. I just thought that for folks that needed a repeatable process it would be nice.