Glance-tasks-api
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Overview
This proposal unifies the new upload workflow, new download workflow, and image cloning blueprints in an extensible, consistent, and easy-to-learn way.
General Workflow
- User posts a request to /v2/tasks
- Glance returns a 201 with Location: /v2/tasks/{task-uuid}
- The resource at /v2/tasks/{task-uuid} will be an expirable entity
- User polls /v2/tasks/{task-uuid} for status information on the requested task
- Eventually, when the task is completed, the resource will contain
- task result information, e.g.,
- if the task was successful, the location of the result of the task
- for import or clone tasks, this will be an /images resource
- for export, it will be a location where the exported item may be retrieved
- if the task was not successful, an informative message
- if the task was successful, the location of the result of the task
- the expiration datetime of the tasks resource itself
- task result information, e.g.,
Task Entities
An task entity is represented by a JSON-encoded data structure.
An task entity has an identifier (id) that is guaranteed to be unique within the endpoint to which it belongs. The id is used as a token in request URIs to interact with that specific task.
An task is always guaranteed to have the following attributes: id, type, status, and self. The other attributes defined in the task schema below are guaranteed to be defined, but will only be returned with a task entity if they have been explicitly set.
Task Schema
A json-schema for the task entity will be available at the URI /v2/schemas/task
And it goes a little something like this:
{ "name": "task", "properties": { "type" : { "description": "The type of task represented by this content", "enum": [ "import", "export", "clone" ], "type": "string" }, "status" : { "description": "The current status of this task.", "enum": [ "queued", "preparing", "transferring", "processing", "verifying", "success", "failure", ], "type": "string" } } "links": [ { "href": "{self}", "rel": "self" }, { "href": "{file}", "rel": "enclosure" }, { "href": "{schema}", "rel": "describedby" } ], }
Tasks Requests
The basic tasks request will be Content-type: application/json and will look like this:
{ "task-type": "{task-name}", "task-info": { /* content will depend on the task type */ } }
Tasks Response
The basic tasks response will be Content-type