Class: Ruote::Dashboard

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
show all
Includes:
ReceiverMixin
Defined in:
lib/ruote/dashboard.rb

Overview

This class was once named ‘Engine’, but since ruote 2.x and its introduction of workers, the methods here are those of a “dashboard”. The real engine being the set of workers.

The methods here allow to launch processes and to query about their status. There are also methods for fixing issues with stalled processes or processes stuck in errors.

NOTE : the methods #launch and #reply are implemented in Ruote::ReceiverMixin (this Engine class has all the methods of a Receiver).

Direct Known Subclasses

Engine

Constant Summary collapse

WORKER_STATES = 
%w[ running stopped paused ]

Instance Attribute Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Methods included from ReceiverMixin

#fetch_flow_expression, #fetch_workitem, #flunk, #launch, #receive, #reply, #sign

Constructor Details

#initialize(worker_or_storage, opts = true) ⇒ Dashboard

Creates an engine using either worker or storage.

If a storage instance is given as the first argument, the engine will be able to manage processes (for example, launch and cancel workflows) but will not actually run any workflows.

If a worker instance is given as the first argument and the second argument is true, engine will start the worker and will be able to both manage and run workflows.

If the second options is set to { :join => true }, the worker will be started and run in the current thread (and the initialize method will not return).



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 67

def initialize(worker_or_storage, opts=true)

  @context = worker_or_storage.context
  @context.dashboard = self

  @variables = EngineVariables.new(@context.storage)

  workers = @context.services.select { |ser|
    ser.respond_to?(:run) && ser.respond_to?(:run_in_thread)
  }

  return unless opts && workers.any?

  # let's isolate a worker to join

  worker = if opts.is_a?(Hash) && opts[:join]
    workers.find { |wor| wor.name == 'worker' } || workers.first
  else
    nil
  end

  (workers - Array(worker)).each { |wor| wor.run_in_thread }
    # launch their thread, but let's not join them

  worker.run if worker
    # and let's not return
end

Instance Attribute Details

#context ⇒ Object (readonly)

Returns the value of attribute context.



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 50

def context
  @context
end

#variables ⇒ Object (readonly)

Returns the value of attribute variables.



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 51

def variables
  @variables
end

Instance Method Details

#add_service(name, path_or_instance, classname = nil, opts = nil) ⇒ Object

Adds a service locally (will not get propagated to other workers).

tracer = Tracer.new
@dashboard.add_service('tracer', tracer)

or

@dashboard.add_service(
  'tracer', 'ruote/exp/tracer', 'Ruote::Exp::Tracer')

This method returns the service instance it just bound.



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 987

def add_service(name, path_or_instance, classname=nil, opts=nil)

  @context.add_service(name, path_or_instance, classname, opts)
end

#add_tracker(wfid, action, tracker_id, conditions, msg) ⇒ Object

/!\ warning: advanced method.

Adds a tracker to the ruote engine.

Arguments

  • wfid: When nil will track any workflow execution, when set will only react on msgs for the given wfid.

  • action: A string like “apply”, “reply” or “receive”, the action being tracked May begin with a “pre_” prefix.

  • tracker_id: When nil, ruote chooses a tracker_id, else its the unique identifier for the new tracker.

  • conditions: A Hash of keys pointing to arrays of expected values. For example { ‘tree.0’ ~=> [ ‘alfred’, ‘knuth’ ] } will trigger if the first element of msg equals alfred or knuth.

  • msg: The msg to place in the msg queue if the tracker matches the msg, the reaction.

Returns the tracker_id.



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 1192

def add_tracker(wfid, action, tracker_id, conditions, msg)

  @context.tracker.add_tracker(wfid, action, tracker_id, conditions, msg)
end

#apply_mutation(wfid, pdef) ⇒ Object

Computes mutation and immediately applies it…

See #compute_mutation

Return the mutation instance (forensic?)



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 406

def apply_mutation(wfid, pdef)

  Mutation.new(self, wfid, @context.reader.read(pdef)).apply
end

#attach(fei_or_fe, definition, opts = {}) ⇒ Object

Given a flow expression id, locates the corresponding ruote expression and attaches a subprocess to it.

Accepts the fei as a Hash or as a FlowExpressionId instance.

By default, the workitem of the expression you attach to provides the initial workitem for the attached branch. By using the :fields/:workitem or :merge_fields options, one can change that.

Returns the fei of the attached [root] expression (as a FlowExpressionId instance).



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 194

def attach(fei_or_fe, definition, opts={})

  fe = Ruote.extract_fexp(@context, fei_or_fe).h
  fei = fe['fei']

  cfei = fei.merge(
    'expid' => "#{fei['expid']}_0",
    'subid' => Ruote.generate_subid(fei.inspect))

  tree = @context.reader.read(definition)
  tree[0] = 'sequence'

  fields = fe['applied_workitem']['fields']
  if fs = opts[:fields] || opts[:workitem]
    fields = fs
  elsif fs = opts[:merge_fields]
    fields.merge!(fs)
  end

  @context.storage.put_msg(
    'launch', # "apply" is OK, but "launch" stands out better
    'parent_id' => fei,
    'fei' => cfei,
    'tree' => tree,
    'workitem' => { 'fields' => fields },
    'attached' => true)

  Ruote::FlowExpressionId.new(cfei)
end

#cancel(wi_or_fei_or_wfid, opts = {}) ⇒ Object Also known as: cancel_process, cancel_expression

Given a workitem or a fei, will do a cancel_expression, else it’s a wfid and it does a cancel_process.

A note about opts

They will get passed as is in the underlying ‘msg’, it can be useful to flag the message for historical purposes as in

dashboard.cancel(wfid, 'reason' => 'cleanup', 'user' => current_user)



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 234

def cancel(wi_or_fei_or_wfid, opts={})

  do_misc('cancel', wi_or_fei_or_wfid, opts)
end

#compute_mutation(wfid, pdef) ⇒ Object

Returns a Mutation instance listing all the operations necessary to transform the current tree of the process (wfid) into the given definition tree (pdef).

See also #apply_mutation



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 395

def compute_mutation(wfid, pdef)

  Mutation.new(self, wfid, @context.reader.read(pdef))
end

#configuration(config_key) ⇒ Object

Returns a configuration value.

dashboard.configure('ruby_eval_allowed', true)

p dashboard.configuration('ruby_eval_allowed')
  # => true



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 1013

def configuration(config_key)

  @context[config_key]
end

#configure(config_key, value) ⇒ Object

Sets a configuration option. Examples:

# allow remote workflow definitions (for subprocesses or when launching
# processes)
@dashboard.configure('remote_definition_allowed', true)

# allow ruby_eval
@dashboard.configure('ruby_eval_allowed', true)



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 1001

def configure(config_key, value)

  @context[config_key] = value
end

#error(wi_or_fei) ⇒ Object

Given a workitem or a fei (or a String version of a fei), returns the corresponding error (or nil if there is no other).



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 493

def error(wi_or_fei)

  fei = Ruote.extract_fei(wi_or_fei)
  err = @context.storage.get('errors', "err_#{fei.sid}")

  err ? ProcessError.new(err) : nil
end

#errors(wfid = nil) ⇒ Object

Returns an array of current errors (hashes)

Can be called in two ways :

dashboard.errors(wfid)

and

dashboard.errors(:skip => 100, :limit => 100)



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 477

def errors(wfid=nil)

  wfid, options = wfid.is_a?(Hash) ? [ nil, wfid ] : [ wfid, {} ]

  errs = wfid.nil? ?
    @context.storage.get_many('errors', nil, options) :
    @context.storage.get_many('errors', wfid)

  return errs if options[:count]

  errs.collect { |err| ProcessError.new(err) }
end

#get_trackers(wfid = nil) ⇒ Object

Returns a hash { tracker_id => tracker_hash } enumerating all the trackers in the ruote system.



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 1216

def get_trackers(wfid=nil)

  @context.storage.get_trackers(wfid)['trackers']
end

#history ⇒ Object

A shortcut for engine.context.history



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 114

def history

  @context.history
end

#join ⇒ Object

Joins the worker thread. If this engine has no nested worker, calling this method will simply return immediately.



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 695

def join

  worker.join if worker
end

#kill(wi_or_fei_or_wfid, opts = {}) ⇒ Object Also known as: kill_process, kill_expression

Given a workitem or a fei, will do a kill_expression, else it’s a wfid and it does a kill_process.

(also see notes about opts for #cancel)



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 247

def kill(wi_or_fei_or_wfid, opts={})

  do_misc('cancel', wi_or_fei_or_wfid, opts.merge('flavour' => 'kill'))
end

#launch_single(process_definition, fields = {}, variables = {}, root_stash = nil) ⇒ Object

Quick note : the implementation of launch is found in the module Ruote::ReceiverMixin that the engine includes.

Some processes have to have one and only one instance of themselves running, these are called ‘singles’ (‘singleton’ is too object-oriented).

When called, this method will check if an instance of the pdef is already running (it uses the process definition name attribute), if yes, it will return without having launched anything. If there is no such process running, it will launch it (and register it).

Returns the wfid (workflow instance id) of the running single.

Raises:

  • (ArgumentError) 


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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 139

def launch_single(process_definition, fields={}, variables={}, root_stash=nil)

  tree = @context.reader.read(process_definition)
  name = tree[1]['name'] || (tree[1].find { |k, v| v.nil? } || []).first

  raise ArgumentError.new(
    'process definition is missing a name, cannot launch as single'
  ) unless name

  singles = @context.storage.get('variables', 'singles') || {
    '_id' => 'singles', 'type' => 'variables', 'h' => {}
  }
  wfid, timestamp = singles['h'][name]

  return wfid if wfid && (ps(wfid) || Time.now.to_f - timestamp < 1.0)
    # return wfid if 'singleton' process is already running

  wfid = @context.wfidgen.generate

  singles['h'][name] = [ wfid, Time.now.to_f ]

  r = @context.storage.put(singles)

  return launch_single(tree, fields, variables, root_stash) unless r.nil?
    #
    # the put failed, back to the start...
    #
    # all this to prevent races between multiple engines,
    # multiple launch_single calls (from different Ruby runtimes)

  # ... green for launch

  @context.storage.put_msg(
    'launch',
    'wfid' => wfid,
    'tree' => tree,
    'workitem' => { 'fields' => fields },
    'variables' => variables,
    'stash' => root_stash)

  wfid
end

#leftovers ⇒ Object

Warning : expensive operation.

Leftovers are workitems, errors and schedules belonging to process instances for which there are no more expressions left.

Better delete them or investigate why they are left here.

The result is a list of documents (hashes) as found in the storage. Each of them might represent a workitem, an error or a schedule.

If you want to delete one of them you can do

dashboard.storage.delete(doc)



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 554

def leftovers

  wfids = @context.storage.expression_wfids({})

  wis = @context.storage.get_many('workitems').compact
  ers = @context.storage.get_many('errors').compact
  scs = @context.storage.get_many('schedules').compact
    # some slow storages need the compaction... [c]ouch...

  (wis + ers + scs).reject { |doc| wfids.include?(doc['fei']['wfid']) }
end

#load_definition(path) ⇒ Object

Loads (and turns into a tree) the process definition at the given path.



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 702

def load_definition(path)

  @context.reader.read(path)
end

#logger ⇒ Object

A shortcut for engine.context.logger



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 121

def logger

  @context.logger
end

#noisy=(b) ⇒ Object

A debug helper :

dashboard.noisy = true

will let the dashboard (in fact the worker) pour all the details of the executing process instances to STDOUT.



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 1228

def noisy=(b)

  @context.logger.noisy = b
end

#on_error ⇒ Object

Returns the process tree that is triggered in case of error.

Note that this ‘on_error’ doesn’t trigger if an on_error is defined in the process itself.

Returns nil if there is no ‘on_error’ set.



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 1081

def on_error

  @context.storage.get_trackers['trackers']['on_error']['msg']['tree']

rescue
  nil
end

#on_error=(target) ⇒ Object

Sets a participant or subprocess to be triggered when an error occurs in a process instance.

dashboard.on_error = participant_name

dashboard.on_error = subprocess_name

dashboard.on_error = Ruote.process_definition do
  alpha
end

Note that this ‘on_error’ doesn’t trigger if an on_error is defined in the process itself.



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 1118

def on_error=(target)

  @context.tracker.add_tracker(
    nil, # do not track a specific wfid
    'error_intercepted', # react on 'error_intercepted' msgs
    'on_error', # the identifier
    nil, # no specific condition
    { 'action' => 'launch',
      'wfid' => 'replace',
      'tree' => target.is_a?(String) ?
        [ 'define', {}, [ [ target, {}, [] ] ] ] : target,
      'workitem' => 'replace',
      'variables' => 'compile' })
end

#on_terminate ⇒ Object

Returns the process tree that is triggered in case of process termination.

Note that a termination process doesn’t raise a termination process when it terminates itself.

Returns nil if there is no ‘on_terminate’ set.



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 1096

def on_terminate

  @context.storage.get_trackers['trackers']['on_terminate']['msg']['tree']

rescue
  nil
end

#on_terminate=(target) ⇒ Object

Sets a participant or a subprocess that is to be launched/called whenever a regular process terminates.

dashboard.on_terminate = participant_name

dashboard.on_terminate = subprocess_name

dashboard.on_terminate = Ruote.define do
  alpha
  bravo
end

Note that a termination process doesn’t raise a termination process when it terminates itself.

on_terminate processes are not triggered for on_error processes. on_error processes are triggered for on_terminate processes as well.



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 1151

def on_terminate=(target)

  msg = {
    'action' => 'launch',
    'tree' => target.is_a?(String) ?
      [ 'define', {}, [ [ target, {}, [] ] ] ] : target,
    'workitem' => 'replace' }

  @context.tracker.add_tracker(
    nil,             # do not track a specific wfid
    'terminated',    # react on 'error_intercepted' msgs
    'on_terminate',  # the identifier
    nil,             # no specific condition
    msg)             # the message that gets triggered
end

#participant(name) ⇒ Object

Returns an instance of the participant registered under the given name. Returns nil if there is no participant registered for that name.



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 970

def participant(name)

  @context.plist.lookup(name.to_s, nil)
end

#participant_list ⇒ Object

Returns a list of Ruote::ParticipantEntry instances.

dashboard.register_participant :alpha, MyParticipant, 'message' => 'hello'

# interrogate participant list
#
list = dashboard.participant_list
participant = list.first
p participant.regex
  # => "^alpha$"
p participant.classname
  # => "MyParticipant"
p participant.options
  # => {"message"=>"hello"}

# update participant list
#
participant.regex = '^alfred$'
dashboard.participant_list = list



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 925

def participant_list

  @context.plist.list
end

#participant_list=(pl) ⇒ Object

Accepts a list of Ruote::ParticipantEntry instances or a list of

regex, [ classname, opts

] arrays.

See Engine#participant_list

Some examples :

dashboard.participant_list = [
  [ '^charly$', [ 'Ruote::StorageParticipant', {} ] ],
  [ '.+', [ 'MyDefaultParticipant', { 'default' => true } ]
]

This method writes the participant list in one go, it might be easier to use than to register participant one by ones.



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 945

def participant_list=(pl)

  @context.plist.list = pl
end

#pause(wi_or_fei_or_wfid, opts = {}) ⇒ Object

Given a wfid, will [attempt to] pause the corresponding process instance. Given an expression id (fei) will [attempt to] pause the expression and its children.

The only known option for now is :breakpoint => true, which lets the engine only pause the targetted expression.

fei and :breakpoint => true

By default, pausing an expression will pause that expression and all its children.

engine.pause(fei, :breakpoint => true)

will only flag as paused the given fei. When the children of that expression will reply to it, the execution for this branch of the process will stop, much like a break point.

Raises:

  • (ArgumentError) 


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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 285

def pause(wi_or_fei_or_wfid, opts={})

  opts = Ruote.keys_to_s(opts)

  raise ArgumentError.new(
    ':breakpoint option only valid when passing a workitem or a fei'
  ) if opts['breakpoint'] and wi_or_fei_or_wfid.is_a?(String)

  do_misc('pause', wi_or_fei_or_wfid, opts)
end

#process(wfid) ⇒ Object

Returns a ProcessStatus instance describing the current status of a process instance.



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 436

def process(wfid)

  ProcessStatus.fetch(@context, [ wfid ], {}).first
end

#process_ids ⇒ Object Also known as: process_wfids

Returns a [sorted] list of wfids of the process instances currently running in the engine.

This operation is substantially less costly than Engine#processes (though the ‘how substantially’ depends on the storage chosen).



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 533

def process_ids

  @context.storage.expression_wfids({})
end

#processes(opts = {}) ⇒ Object

Returns an array of ProcessStatus instances.

WARNING : this is an expensive operation, but it understands :skip and :limit, so pagination is our friend.

Please note, if you’re interested only in processes that have errors, Engine#errors is a more efficient means.

To simply list the wfids of the currently running, Engine#process_wfids is way cheaper to call.



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 452

def processes(opts={})

  wfids = @context.storage.expression_wfids(opts)

  opts[:count] ? wfids.size : ProcessStatus.fetch(@context, wfids, opts)
end

#ps(wfid = nil) ⇒ Object

Returns a list of processes or the process status of a given process instance.



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 462

def ps(wfid=nil)

  wfid == nil ? processes : process(wfid)
end

#re_apply(fei, opts = {}) ⇒ Object

Re-applies an expression (given via its FlowExpressionId).

That will cancel the expression and, once the cancel operation is over (all the children have been cancelled), the expression will get re-applied.

The fei parameter may be a hash, a Ruote::FlowExpressionId instance, a Ruote::Workitem instance or a sid string.

options

:tree is used to completely change the tree of the expression at re_apply

dashboard.re_apply(
  fei, :tree => [ 'participant', { 'ref' => 'bob' }, [] ])

:fields is used to replace the fields of the workitem at re_apply

dashboard.re_apply(
  fei, :fields => { 'customer' => 'bob' })

:workitem is ok too

dashboard.re_apply(
  fei, :workitem => { 'fields' => { 'customer' => 'bob' } })

:merge_in_fields is used to add / override fields

dashboard.re_apply(
  fei, :merge_in_fields => { 'customer' => 'bob' })



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 381

def re_apply(fei, opts={})

  @context.storage.put_msg(
    'cancel',
    'fei' => FlowExpressionId.extract_h(fei),
    're_apply' => Ruote.keys_to_s(opts))
end

#register(*args, &block) ⇒ Object

A shorter version of #register_participant

dashboard.register 'alice', MailParticipant, :target => '[email protected]'

or a block registering mechanism.

dashboard.register do
  alpha 'Participants::Alpha', 'flavour' => 'vanilla'
  participant 'bravo', 'Participants::Bravo', :flavour => 'peach'
  catchall ParticipantCharlie, 'flavour' => 'coconut'
end

Originally implemented in ruote-kit by Torsten Schoenebaum.

registration in block and :clear

By default, when registering multiple participants in block, ruote considers you’re wiping the participant list and re-adding them all.

You can prevent the clearing by stating :clear => false like in :

dashboard.register :clear => false do
  alpha 'Participants::Alpha', 'flavour' => 'vanilla'
  participant 'bravo', 'Participants::Bravo', :flavour => 'peach'
  catchall ParticipantCharlie, 'flavour' => 'coconut'
end



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 877

def register(*args, &block)

  clear = args.first.is_a?(Hash) ? args.pop[:clear] : true

  if args.size > 0
    register_participant(*args, &block)
  else
    proxy = ParticipantRegistrationProxy.new(self, clear)
    block.arity < 1 ? proxy.instance_eval(&block) : block.call(proxy)
    proxy._flush
  end
end

#register_participant(regex, participant = nil, opts = {}, &block) ⇒ Object

Registers a participant in the engine.

Takes the form

dashboard.register_participant name_or_regex, klass, opts={}

With the form

dashboard.register_participant name_or_regex do |workitem|
  # ...
end

A BlockParticipant is automatically created.

name or regex

When registering participants, strings or regexes are accepted. Behind the scenes, a regex is kept.

Passing a string like “alain” will get ruote to automatically turn it into the following regex : /^alain$/.

For finer control over this, pass a regex directly

dashboard.register_participant /^user-/, MyParticipant
  # will match all workitems whose participant name starts with "user-"

some examples

dashboard.register_participant 'compute_sum' do |wi|
  wi.fields['sum'] = wi.fields['articles'].inject(0) do |s, (c, v)|
    s + c * v # sum + count * value
  end
  # a block participant implicitely replies to the engine immediately
end

class MyParticipant
  def initialize(opts)
    @name = opts['name']
  end
  def on_workitem
    workitem.fields['rocket_name'] = @name
    send_to_the_moon(workitem)
  end
  def on_cancel
    # do nothing
  end
end

dashboard.register_participant(
  /^moon-.+/, MyParticipant, 'name' => 'Saturn-V')

# computing the total for a invoice being passed in the workitem.
#
class TotalParticipant
  include Ruote::LocalParticipant

  def on_workitem
    workitem['total'] = workitem.fields['items'].inject(0.0) { |t, item|
      t + item['count'] * PricingService.lookup(item['id'])
    }
    reply
  end

  def on_cancel
  end
end
dashboard.register_participant 'total', TotalParticipant

Remember that the options (the hash that follows the class name), must be serializable via JSON.

require_path and load_path

It’s OK to register a participant by passing its full classname as a String.

dashboard.register_participant(
  'auditor', 'AuditParticipant', 'require_path' => 'part/audit.rb')
dashboard.register_participant(
  'auto_decision', 'DecParticipant', 'load_path' => 'part/dec.rb')

Note the option load_path / require_path that point to the ruby file containing the participant implementation. ‘require’ will load and eval the ruby code only once, ‘load’ each time.

:override => false

By default, when registering a participant, if this results in a regex that is already used, the previously registered participant gets unregistered.

dashboard.register_participant 'alpha', AaParticipant
dashboard.register_participant 'alpha', BbParticipant, :override => false

This can be useful when the #accept? method of participants are in use.

Note that using the #register(&block) method, :override => false is automatically enforced.

dashboard.register do
  alpha AaParticipant
  alpha BbParticipant
end

:position / :pos => ‘last’ / ‘first’ / ‘before’ / ‘after’ / ‘over’

One can specify the position where the participant should be inserted in the participant list.

dashboard.register_participant 'auditor', AuditParticipant, :pos => 'last'

  • last : it’s the default, places the participant at the end of the list

  • first : top of the list

  • before : implies :override => false, places before the existing participant with the same regex

  • after : implies :override => false, places after the last existing participant with the same regex

  • over : overrides in the same position (while the regular, default overide removes and then places the new participant at the end of the list)



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 834

def register_participant(regex, participant=nil, opts={}, &block)

  if participant.is_a?(Hash)
    opts = participant
    participant = nil
  end

  pa = @context.plist.register(regex, participant, opts, block)

  @context.storage.put_msg(
    'participant_registered',
    'regex' => regex.is_a?(Regexp) ? regex.inspect : regex.to_s)

  pa
end

#remove_process(wfid) ⇒ Object

Removes a process by removing all its schedules, expressions, errors, workitems and trackers.

Warning: will not trigger any cancel behaviours at all, just removes the process.



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 261

def remove_process(wfid)

  @context.storage.remove_process(wfid)
end

#remove_tracker(fei_sid_or_id, wfid = nil) ⇒ Object

/!\ warning: advanced method.

Removes a tracker from the ruote system.

The first arg is a FlowExpressionId, in its instance form, hash form or shortened (sid) string form. It can also be any string (any tracker id).

The second arg is optional, it’s a wfid. It’s useful for some storage implementations (like ruote-swf) and helps determine how to grab the tracker list. Most of the ruote deployments don’t need that arg set.



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 1208

def remove_tracker(fei_sid_or_id, wfid=nil)

  @context.tracker.remove_tracker(fei_sid_or_id, wfid)
end

#replay_at_error(err) ⇒ Object

Replays at a given error (hopefully the cause of the error got fixed before replaying…)



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 322

def replay_at_error(err)

  err = error(err) unless err.is_a?(Ruote::ProcessError)

  msg = err.msg.dup

  if tree = msg['tree']
    #
    # as soon as there is a tree, it means it's a re_apply

    re_apply(
      msg['fei'],
      'tree' => tree,
      'replay_at_error' => true,
      'workitem' => msg['workitem'])

  else

    action = msg.delete('action')

    msg['replay_at_error'] = true
      # just an indication

    @context.storage.delete(err.to_h) # remove error
    @context.storage.put_msg(action, msg) # trigger replay
  end
end

#respark(wfid, opts = {}) ⇒ Object

This method re_apply all the leaves of a process instance. It’s meant to be used against stalled workflows to give them back the spark of life.

Stalled workflows can happen when msgs get lost. It also happens with some storage implementations where msgs are stored differently from expressions and co.

By default, it doesn’t re_apply leaves that are in error. If the ‘errors_too’ option is set to true, it will re_apply leaves in error as well. For example:

$dashboard.respark(wfid, 'errors_too' => true)



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 425

def respark(wfid, opts={})

  @context.storage.put_msg(
    'respark',
    'wfid' => wfid,
    'respark' => Ruote.keys_to_s(opts))
end

#resume(wi_or_fei_or_wfid, opts = {}) ⇒ Object

Given a wfid will [attempt to] resume the process instance. Given an expression id (fei) will [attempt to] to resume the expression and its children.

Note : this is supposed to be called on paused expressions / instances, this is NOT meant to be called to unstuck / unhang a process.

resume(wfid, :anyway => true)

Resuming a process instance is equivalent to calling resume on its root expression. If the root is not paused itself, this will have no effect.

dashboard.resume(wfid, :anyway => true)

will make sure to call resume on each of the paused branch within the process instance (tree), effectively resuming the whole process.



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 314

def resume(wi_or_fei_or_wfid, opts={})

  do_misc('resume', wi_or_fei_or_wfid, opts)
end

#schedules(wfid = nil) ⇒ Object

Returns an array of schedules. Those schedules are open structs with various properties, like target, owner, at, put_at, …

Introduced mostly for ruote-kit.

Can be called in two ways :

dashboard.schedules(wfid)

and

dashboard.schedules(:skip => 100, :limit => 100)



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 514

def schedules(wfid=nil)

  wfid, options = wfid.is_a?(Hash) ? [ nil, wfid ] : [ wfid, {} ]

  scheds = wfid.nil? ?
    @context.storage.get_many('schedules', nil, options) :
    @context.storage.get_many('schedules', /!#{wfid}-\d+$/)

  return scheds if options[:count]

  scheds.collect { |s| Ruote.schedule_to_h(s) }.sort_by { |s| s['wfid'] }
end

#shutdown ⇒ Object

Shuts down the engine, mostly passes the shutdown message to the other services and hope they’ll shut down properly.



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 569

def shutdown

  @context.shutdown
end

#storage ⇒ Object

Returns the storage this engine works with passed at engine initialization.



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 98

def storage

  @context.storage
end

#storage_participant ⇒ Object Also known as: worklist

A convenience method for

sp = Ruote::StorageParticipant.new(dashboard)

simply do

sp = dashboard.storage_participant



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 958

def storage_participant

  @storage_participant ||= Ruote::StorageParticipant.new(self)
end

#unregister_participant(name_or_participant) ⇒ Object Also known as: unregister

Removes/unregisters a participant from the engine.

Raises:

  • (ArgumentError) 


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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 892

def unregister_participant(name_or_participant)

  re = @context.plist.unregister(name_or_participant)

  raise(ArgumentError.new('participant not found')) unless re

  @context.storage.put_msg(
    'participant_unregistered',
    'regex' => re.to_s)
end

#update_expression(fei, opts) ⇒ Object

Warning: advanced method.

Currently only used by mutations.

Raises:

  • (ArgumentError) 


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def update_expression(fei, opts)

  fei = Ruote.extract_fei(fei)
  fexp = Ruote::Exp::FlowExpression::fetch(@context, fei)

  raise ArgumentError.new(
    "no expression found with fei #{fei.sid}"
  ) unless fexp

  if t = opts[:tree]
    fexp.h.updated_tree = opts[:tree]
  end

  r = @context.storage.put(fexp.h)

  raise ArgumentError.new(
    "expression #{fei.sid} is gone"
  ) if r == true

  return update_expression(fei, opts) unless r.nil?
end

#wait_for(*items) ⇒ Object

This method expects there to be a logger with a wait_for method in the context, else it will raise an exception.

WARNING: #wait_for() is meant for environments where there is a unique worker and that worker is nested in this engine. In a multiple worker environment wait_for doesn’t see events handled by ‘other’ workers.

This method is only useful for test/quickstart/examples environments.

dashboard.wait_for(:alpha)
  # will make the current thread block until a workitem is delivered
  # to the participant named 'alpha'

engine.wait_for('123432123-9043')
  # will make the current thread block until the processed whose
  # wfid is given (String) terminates or produces an error.

engine.wait_for(5)
  # will make the current thread block until 5 messages have been
  # processed on the workqueue...

engine.wait_for(:empty)
  # will return as soon as the engine/storage is empty, ie as soon
  # as there are no more processes running in the engine (no more
  # expressions placed in the storage)

engine.wait_for('terminated')
  # will return as soon as any process has a 'terminated' event.

It’s OK to wait for multiple wfids:

engine.wait_for('20100612-bezerijozo', '20100612-yakisoba')

If one needs to wait for something else than a wfid but needs to break in case of error:

engine.wait_for(:alpha, :or_error)

ruote 2.3.0 and wait_for(event)

Ruote 2.3.0 introduced the ability to wait for an event given its name. Here is a quick list of event names and a their description:

  • ‘launch’ - [sub]process launch

  • ‘terminated’ - process terminated

  • ‘ceased’ - orphan process terminated

  • ‘apply’ - expression application

  • ‘reply’ - expression reply

  • ‘dispatched’ - emitted workitem towards participant

  • ‘receive’ - received workitem from participant

  • ‘pause’ - pause order

  • ‘resume’ - pause order

  • ‘dispatch_cancel’ - emitting a cancel order to a participant

  • ‘dispatch_pause’ - emitting a pause order to a participant

  • ‘dispatch_resume’ - emitting a resume order to a participant

Names that are past participles are for notification events, while plain verbs are for action events. Most of the time, a notitication is emitted has the result of an action event, workers don’t take any action on them, but services that are listening to the ruote activity might want to do something about them.

ruote 2.3.0 and wait_for(hash)

For more precise testing, wait_for accepts hashes, for example:

r = dashboard.wait_for('action' => 'apply', 'exp_name' => 'wait')

will block until a wait expression is applied.

If you know ruote msgs, you can pinpoint at will:

r = dashboard.wait_for(
  'action' => 'apply',
  'exp_name' => 'wait',
  'fei.wfid' => wfid)

what wait_for returns

#wait_for returns the intercepted event. It’s useful when testing/ spec’ing, as in:

it 'completes successfully' do

  definition = Ruote.define :on_error => 'charly' do
    alpha
    bravo
  end

  wfid = @board.launch(definition)

  r = @board.wait_for(wfid)
    # wait until process terminates or hits an error

  r['workitem'].should_not == nil
  r['workitem']['fields']['alpha'].should == 'was here'
  r['workitem']['fields']['bravo'].should == 'was here'
  r['workitem']['fields']['charly'].should == nil
end

:timeout option

One can pass a timeout value in seconds for the #wait_for call, as in:

dashboard.wait_for(wfid, :timeout => 5 * 60)

The default timeout is 60 (seconds). A nil or negative timeout disables the timeout.



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 685

def wait_for(*items)

  opts = (items.size > 1 && items.last.is_a?(Hash)) ? items.pop : {}

  @context.logger.wait_for(items, opts)
end

#worker ⇒ Object

Returns the worker nested inside this engine (passed at initialization). Returns nil if this engine is only linked to a storage (and the worker is running somewhere else (hopefully)).



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 107

def worker

  @context.worker
end

#worker_info ⇒ Object

Returns the hash containing info about each worker connected to the storage.



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 1021

def worker_info

  (@context.storage.get('variables', 'workers') || {})['workers']
end

#worker_state ⇒ Object

Returns the state the workers are supposed to be in right now. It’s usually ‘running’, but it could be ‘stopped’ or ‘paused’.



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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 1029

def worker_state

  doc =
    @context.storage.get('variables', 'worker') ||
    { 'type' => 'variables', '_id' => 'worker', 'state' => 'running' }

  doc['state']
end

#worker_state=(state) ⇒ Object

Sets the [desired] worker state. The workers will check that target state at their next beat and switch to it.

Setting the state to ‘stopped’ will force the workers to stop as soon as they notice the new state.

Setting the state to ‘paused’ will force the workers to pause. They will not process msgs until the state is set back to ‘running’.

By default the [engine] option ‘worker_state_enabled’ is not set, so calling this method will result in a error, unless ‘worker_state_enabled’ was set to true when the storage was initialized.

Raises:

  • (RuntimeError) 


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# File 'lib/ruote/dashboard.rb', line 1053

def worker_state=(state)

  raise RuntimeError.new(
    "'worker_state_enabled' is not set, cannot change state"
  ) unless @context['worker_state_enabled']

  state = state.to_s

  raise ArgumentError.new(
    "#{state.inspect} not in #{WORKER_STATES.inspect}"
  ) unless WORKER_STATES.include?(state)

  doc =
    @context.storage.get('variables', 'worker') ||
    { 'type' => 'variables', '_id' => 'worker', 'state' => 'running' }

  doc['state'] = state

  @context.storage.put(doc) && worker_state=(state)
end