topic Re: Stop Javascript Console execution in Alfresco Forum

Stop Javascript Console execution

liviu_ioan — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 12:42:58 GMT

Hello,Q1: Is there a way to say STOP/EXIT in the javascript code inserted into the JS Console?(i.e., is there a way to stop the JS Console running in the Alfresco repository?)Detailed contextI need to update cm:storeName for 1,5 million Alfresco nodes.I want to split the processing by date intervals

Re: Stop Javascript Console execution

liviu_ioan — Sun, 08 Jul 2018 11:39:04 GMT

There was a misunderstanding on my side.

Clarifications

There is a js-console client (in Share) and a js-console server (in the Repository).
Run Like Crazy = the client continuously sends the js snippet to the js-console server.

Misuderstanding: I thought Run Like Crazy = the server runs continously the js snippet.

As a result:

Closing the client (closing the tab in the browser) would stop the js snippet being sent to the js-console server. The same result can be achieved by setting Run Like Crazy to off.
There is no way to stop the execution of a js snippet once the js-console server has received it (except by killing tomcat on the server side, of course)

Re: Stop Javascript Console execution

cesarista — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 14:36:51 GMT

Definitely, for doing a massive task as you commented, JS Console may be not the best option. You can not stop the process once started.

In your case, I will use either CMIS script or to use a custom webscript.

In my experience, the second option is very much faster. With a CMIS script, I get more control over the process and it is easily batch-able and cron-able, while with a custom webscript execution I limit to a batch size of updates because of caches, and I use logger.warn in my js code to see in the logs how is going the custom process. In both cases, I got a complete list of target uuids in some file, and then I split the executions for doing 5000-10000 batches.

Regards.

--C.