notify users of job status

[g-k]

It'd be nice to have a way to show an running action's status and errors in the TC dashboard.

Possible options:

• websockets
• sse
• long-polling/comet
• polling

[g-k]

@helfi92 any recommendations for this?

[helfi92]

Hey @g-k, right now we currently await on the action request and show a green banner if the request resolves without throwing. If the user is missing scopes, then we show an error.

There isn't something in place right now to show a real-time update of a request status. If the request takes 10 seconds for example, then there will be a loading spinner until that request returns something. I'm not sure we want to handle continuous status update for now since we'll be dealing with many different domains.

You can see https://github.com/taskcluster/taskcluster-tools/blob/master/src/views/WorkerManager/WorkerManager.js#L169-L199 for the method where we handle the request. Hope that helps.

[helfi92]

@g-k To notify users with the action status, you could look into taskcluster-notify.

[helfi92]

Also, it's better if the action endpoint returns early. In other words, if the action takes a while, start it up and send the HTTP response.

[helfi92]

@g-k To interact with the taskcluster-notify service, use taskcluster/taskcluster-client#methods-in-taskclusternotify.

[g-k]

+1 for notifications. These will probably take >10 seconds run.