Orion/Documentation/Developer Guide/Long running operations in services and plugins

Long running operations in services and plugins

Methods in Orion plugins may run asychronusly returning a promise (see orion/Deferred.js). The result of the method should be returned by calling deferred.resolve or deferred.reject methods. If you wish to report progress you should use deferred.progress method. Progress information will be reported on UI if argument passed to progress method describes an operation, with API as fallows:

Operation Description

type

String one of: loadstart, progress, error, abort, load, loadend

timestamp

Long the time when the operation war run

lengthComputable

Boolean true if the progress is deterministic

loaded

Integer Optional applicable if lengthComputable is true, number of items loaded/process

total

Integer Optional applicable if lengthComputable is true, total number of items to load/process

Location

URL Optional the location of task where we can find more details and perform operations like update.
Important! this attribute should not be present if this operation status is only important when current page is opened. If operation should be tracked also outside of the current page, for instance in All Operations page plugin provider is required to provide Operation Service.

expires

Long timestamp to which the operation will be available under given location

Operation Service

Service methods

getOperation(location)

Returns promise that should act the same way as the one that started the operation. When operation is running updates in format of Operation Description should be returned by deferred.progress. When operation is finished returned promise should be resolved or rejected containing operation result. If operation was finished before getOperation was called the returned promise should be resolved straight away.

removeCompletedOperations()

Removes all completed operations tracked by this Operation Service, returns an array of locations of operations that are left.

removeOperation(location)

Removed operation represented by this location.

Service properties

name

String Name of the service

pattern

String or URI the base URI for Operations location or the pattern that should match the location. Based on this property services will be matched with given operation location.

Examples

Adding "UPPER" action to editor via long running operation without operation service:

var provider = new orion.PluginProvider();
var serviceImpl = {
	run : function(text) {
		var deferred = new orion.Deferred();
		var timestamp = new Date().getTime();
		var operationFinished = false;
		setTimeout(function(){deferred.resolve(text.toUpperCase()); operationFinished=true;}, 5000);
		
		function reportProgress(){
			if(operationFinished)
				return;
			deferred.progress({type: "progress", timestamp: timestamp});
			setTimeout(reportProgress, 1000);
		}
		
		reportProgress();
		
		return deferred.promise;
	}
};
var serviceProps = {
	name : "UPPERCASE",
	img : "../images/gear.gif",
	key : [ "u", true ]
};
provider.registerService("orion.edit.command", serviceImpl, serviceProps);
provider.connect();

The same example, but with persistent operations that can be viewed on All Operations page. Operations persistence based on localStorage.

var provider = new orion.PluginProvider();

var base = "myOperations:";

function saveOperation(operation){
	var operations = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem(base)||"{}");
	operations[operation.Location] = operation;
	localStorage.setItem(base, JSON.stringify(operations));
}

function generateLocation(){
	var operationNumber = 1+parseInt(localStorage.getItem("lastOperation")||"0");
	localStorage.setItem("lastOperation", operationNumber);
	return base+operationNumber;
}
	function reportProgress(deferred, operation){
	if(operation.type!=="load" && operation.type!=="progress")
		return;
	operation.type = "progress";
	saveOperation(operation);
	deferred.progress(operation);
	setTimeout(function(){reportProgress(deferred, operation)}, 1000);
}
	provider.registerService("orion.edit.command", {
	run : function(text) {
		var deferred = new orion.Deferred();
		var timestamp = new Date().getTime();
		var operation = {type: "load", timestamp: timestamp, Location: generateLocation()};
		saveOperation(operation);
		setTimeout(function(){
			deferred.resolve(text.toUpperCase());
			operation.type = "loadend";
			saveOperation(operation);
			}, 5000);
		
		reportProgress(deferred, operation);
		return deferred.promise;
	}
}, {
	name : "UPPERCASE",
	img : "../images/gear.gif",
	key : [ "u", true ]
});

provider.registerService("orion.core.operation", {
	getOperation: function(location){
		var deferred = new orion.Deferred();
		var operation = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem(base) || "{}")[location];
		if(!operation){
		deferred.reject("Cannot find operation: " + location);
			return deferred.promise;
		}
		if(operation.type!=="load" && operation.type!=="progress"){
			deferred.resolve();
		}
		reportProgress(deferred, operation);
		return deferred.promise;
	},
	removeCompletedOperations: function(){
		var operations = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem(base) || "{}");
		for(var operationLocation in operations){
			var operation = operations[operationLocation];
			if(operation.type!=="load" && operation.type!=="progress"){
				delete operations[operationLocation];
			}
		}
		localStorage.setItem(base, JSON.stringify(operations));
		return Object.keys(operations);
	},
	removeOperation: function(location){
		var operations = JSON.parse(localStorage.getItem(base) || "{}");
		delete operations[location];
	}
},
{	name: "Upper Tasks",
	pattern: base
});
provider.connect();