[Koha-devel] Background jobs in plugins

[Tomas Cohen Arazi]

Look at this commit:

https://github.com/bywatersolutions/dev-koha-plugin-kitchen-sink/commit/30d1446387fa864fe49f25cb53a2915b33ef73ce

Best regards

El vie, 13 oct 2023 a las 10:09, Tomas Cohen Arazi (<tomascohen at gmail.com>)
escribió:

> Hi all. I'm wrapping a KitchenSink patch to highlight how it would be used.
>
> The background jobs themselves work, but the template side I never looked
> at. I thought there was some default display showing all the report
> metadata, but it seems all descriptions are hardcoded and a dev is required
> to add the ability for plugins to advertise job descriptions and have them
> displayed as well.
>
> [image: image.png]
>
> If you want a plugin background job, it works and you should look at the
> wiki (updated just now) and/or copy what I've done on the KitchenSink
> plugin.
>
> Regarding comments on IRC, the feature was submitted during the 2022's
> hackfest in an attempt to streamline the whole background jobs work by
> Jonathan, and was tested, QA and pushed by others. We succeeded in moving
> that forward, which Fridolin pushed for 22.05 and was a great improvement.
>
> Best regards
>
> El vie, 13 oct 2023 a las 3:25, David Cook (<dcook at prosentient.com.au>)
> escribió:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>>
>> “Bug 30410 - Add a way for plugins to register background tasks” was
>> pushed in Koha 22.05.00, but I can’t figure out how to make it work.
>>
>>
>>
>> Tomas, do you have a plugin where this works?
>>
>>
>>
>> I’ve gone through the patches, and it looks like I should have it right,
>> but nothing I’m doing is working.
>>
>>
>>
>> When I enqueue the job, background_jobs.pl says “Unknown job type
>> 'plugin_blah_blah'” even though “plugin_blah_blah” exists in
>> Koha::BackgroundJob->new->type_class_mapping and in my plugin background
>> job’s “job_type”.
>>
>>
>>
>> When I click “View” on the job, I get the following error: “Template
>> process failed: file error - background_jobs/plugin_blah_blah.inc: not
>> found at /kohadevbox/koha/C4/Templates.pm line 127”
>>
>>
>>
>> I’ll look next week at providing a simple plugin to illustrate the
>> problem…
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> David Cook
>>
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>>
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>
>
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> Tomás Cohen Arazi
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Tomás Cohen Arazi
Theke Solutions (https://theke.io)
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