New feature of checking the state of job on the basis of job id

[PramodBisht]

You can add new feature of notifying a user when the job is complete. For example, using job id person should be able to know if that job is completed or not. Put it in another way on the basis of job id person should be able to know if job is in (pending,running or finished)

Thanks

[djm]

Hi Pramod,

Thanks for the feature request. I think I understand what you're after - a kind of job status call..

e.g

>>> scrapyd.job_status('ab4...62e')
'running'  # or 'pending', 'finished'

Correct?

The wrapper was originally written as a 1:1 to the Scrapyd API itself but I think this does warrant an extra wrapper method because it's so useful. The list_jobs endpoint from Scrapyd has this functionality in theory but having to parse the response yourself to get an answer about job status is indeed a pain.

I'll look at implementing this asap.

[djm]

@PramodBisht Implemented this and released :)

Please see updated docs here: http://python-scrapyd-api.readthedocs.org/en/latest/usage.html#retrieve-the-status-of-a-specific-job

and release v0.2 on PyPI here: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-scrapyd-api

Cheers.

[PramodBisht]

@djm

Thanks