Need more info on GlideScriptedProgressWorker, if we can wait for thread to finish

Anoop Chacko · ‎08-05-2014

Hi All,

We have created the class GlideScriptedProgressWorker and we are staring the thread.

var worker = new GlideScriptedProgressWorker();

worker.start();

it appears that it is staring a thread in the background and flow continues.

Is there any way, I can wait for worker to finish before we proceed to next activity ?

what all methods are available for the object of this class ?

will normal thread.join kind of methods work ?

Thanks in advance,

adiddigi · ‎08-05-2014

Anoop, Thanks for the question. While I don't know the answer, I want to understand why did you use GlideScriptedProgressWorker, meaning as I never came across the usage of this Class, I want to understand what's the use case that you are trying to complete by using this?

Thanks!

Anoop Chacko · ‎08-05-2014

Hi Abhiram,

SN is using this when we do a preview of an update set.

We want to do a sequential preview of update sets and hence running this code in a loop so that we just give a set of updatesets and it does the preview of all of them at one go.

It doesn't work for some reason i.e. it does the preview of first update set but doesn't do the preview of subsequent update set.

SN OOB UpdateSetPreview script include and Preivew Update Set UI action has code around that.

Thx

harikrish_v · ‎08-05-2014

Anoop, you might want to preview and commit the first one, then preview the second one. You can use the code below to do it one by one, just make sure you pass the retrieved update sets sys_id in the while loop:-

var worker = new GlideScriptedProgressWorker();

worker.setProgressName("Generating Update Set Preview for: " + <update sets name here>);

worker.setName('UpdateSetPreviewer');

worker.addParameter(<sys_id of your retrvd update set>);

worker.addParameter("preview");

worker.setBackground(true);

answer = worker.getProgressID(); // set answer to the progress worker ID BEFORE worker starts

worker.start();

This will initiate the preview, now you can put a query here to stall till this one completes (you can check the progress worker table to see if the preview got finished)

The SN Nerd · ‎08-19-2015

There is a wait methods.

See list below, although I don't know what parameters they take.

initProgressFields

setCannotCancel

setProgressState

toString

wait

cancel

registerChild

getClass

setProgressStateCode

hashCode

stage

fail

notify

setProgressName

setParentController

setProgressErrorState

getParentController

isCancelled

getOutputSummary

updateDetailMessage

run

getProgressMessage

start

isUncancelable

setProgressTable

equals

getProgressState

runScript

updateMessage

setProgressError

addNonEscapedParameter

isFailed

addMessage

setProgressMessage

addParameter

setBackground

success

setName

notifyAll

isBackground

isPending

getWorkerThreadID

isError

getProgressID

setOutputSummary

isStarting

loadProgressWorker

getProgressTable

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