topic Thread sleep or timer? in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/thread-sleep-or-timer/m-p/182665#M135795 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have a script task that will hit an API to check if a job is finished.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I need to keep checking the API every few minutes and if the job is not finished within an hour, I need to send a notification (but keep checking the API until it's finished).</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>while (jobNotFinished) {</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp; hit API.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp; if (jobFinished) {</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; break;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp; } else {</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; thread.sleep(5mins);</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp; }</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>}</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>and I'll have a boundary timer event set to jobStartTime + 1hour to send a notification.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Is this the correct way? What would happen on a server restart if it's in the while loop?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I've thought about having an exclusive gateway that will point back to the task but not sure how I would setup a boundary timer so that it doesn't run again when it keeps running the task every 5 mins even after 1hour has past. I could set a variable to mark it as sent, but that doesn't sound "right"?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any insight would be helpful to this BPMN noob. </SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 19 Mar 2015 00:13:42 GMT jhahn 2015-03-19T00:13:42Z Thread sleep or timer? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/thread-sleep-or-timer/m-p/182665#M135795 Hi,I have a script task that will hit an API to check if a job is finished.I need to keep checking the API every few minutes and if the job is not finished within an hour, I need to send a notification (but keep checking the API until it's finished).while (jobNotFinished) {&nbsp; hit API.&nbsp; if (jobFinishe Thu, 19 Mar 2015 00:13:42 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/thread-sleep-or-timer/m-p/182665#M135795 jhahn 2015-03-19T00:13:42Z Re: Thread sleep or timer? https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/thread-sleep-or-timer/m-p/182666#M135796 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I think the describe implementation is correct. As long as the Boundary Timer Event is non interrupting (cancel activity property).</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>In case of a server restart and the scripttask (and perhaps other steps that are part of that transaction) isn’t finished the transaction will rollback. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>So if f.e. the script task is async the process instance will continue there when the server is up.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Regards,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Yvo</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:47:18 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/thread-sleep-or-timer/m-p/182666#M135796 yvoswillens 2015-03-19T12:47:18Z