[katello-devel] Async Jobs as resources

[Lukas Zapletal]

On 07/15/2011 10:41 PM, Dmitri Dolguikh wrote:
>
> I think we should acknowledge the fact that async tasks are a resource
> on their own, and give them a dedicated url, something like:
>
> POST /tasks/sync/provider/:id
> POST /tasks/sync/repository/:id
>
> to initiate a sync process.
>
> To get the status:
>
> GET /tasks/:id
>
> or perhaps we should be more specific:
>
> GET /tasks/sync/:id
>
> What do you think?

Couldn't a task be generic resource (e.g. with path /tasks) with the 
data specifying the task resource you are working with? Something like:

{
   :task => "repository",
   :data => { ... }
}

A generic interface.

-- 
Later,

  Lukas Zapletal | E32E400A
  RHN Satellite Engineering
  Red Hat Czech s.r.o. Brno