Force run and pause Ent Periodic Jobs

[danilo-silva-cw]

Hello @mperham,

The features are force run and pause cron of a job using the LID as identifier.

I created a private gem using Ruby prepends to add the functionality of pausing or starting a cron job based on the issue #5000. The only part of your gem sidekiq-ent that I had to use was the loop.erb view file to add the buttons.

I would like to publish this gem as a opensource, and in a future if you want to incorporate to sidekiq-ent

Would you allow this publication? Or if you prefer, may I send you the gem through some means so that you can better review it?

[mperham]

That's neat that you were able to build this!

I've had concerns about the Pause functionality. If someone forgets they pressed it or doesn't tell another team member, it could cause a lot of confusion about why the cron job is not running.

I don't think you can publish the gem without republishing a modified loop.erb, which isn't allowed by the license. Do you want to send me a patch so you can add your table columns without modifying and distributing loop.erb? Sidekiq Pro does something similar so it can inject the filter input boxes, Sidekiq provides an empty impl which Pro overrides.

[stevenharman]

The pause functionality aside, I too have wanted a "run right now" button in the UI. Lacking that, I tend to just fire up a console session and enqueue one myself. Which works, but isn't as convenient as the UI. Especially for local testing/debugging. So, a nice-to-have, for me. 😄

[dannnylo]

Hello @stevenharman,
I finally managed to launch my gem, with this functionality.

https://rubygems.org/gems/sidekiq-belt

[danilo-silva-cw]

Hello @mperham.

Sorry for the delay in reply.
I sent via email the gist link with the diff of the view with the subject "Discussions #5901 Force run and pause Ent Periodic Jobs".

I am waiting for your reply.

Thanks

[mperham]

I think my long-term plan here is to allow third-party code to add columns to all tables in the Web UI. I'll need to rejigger the Web UI to allow this but it's a common request from people looking to enhance the data in various tables with links or buttons. Thanks for sending me your code as one example.

I don't have a timeline for this work but I'm taking a sabbatical this summer so look for progress in the fall.

[dannnylo]

I created a simple way to inject buttons into views.
https://github.com/dannnylo/sidekiq-belt/blob/main/lib/sidekiq/web_action_helper.rb#L12
https://github.com/dannnylo/sidekiq-belt/blob/main/lib/sidekiq/web_router_helper.rb#L9

And to use is like https://github.com/dannnylo/sidekiq-belt/blob/main/lib/sidekiq/belt/ent/periodic_pause.rb#L39

app.replace_content("/loops") do |content|
    content.gsub!("</th>\n    </tr>", "</th><th><%= t('Pause/Unpause') %></th></th>\n    </tr>")
end

To make it easy and reusable at the end of Sidekiq views could have a comment as a tag to UI replacement.

<table>
  <thead>
    <th></th>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td></td>
      <!-- END_COLUMN -->
    </tr>
    <!-- END_LINE -->
  </tbody>
</table>