Hello. I’ve devised a BPMN with 2 tasks. I’m using go to implement my client.
The first task consists of a series of bash command line operations, one of which takes at least 5 minutes (or potentially hours) to complete. However, before the command line operation can finish, the job handler (?) retries the task.
To keep it simple for the sake of demonstrating my concern, I am running
time.Sleep(10 * time.Minute)
and printing to STDOUT some log statements to track the timing.
$ go run timer2.go
Starting MAIN
2019/07/29 13:25:10 Running TASK 1 for 2251799815734269
2019/07/29 13:25:10 [TEN MINUTE TIMER]: start
2019/07/29 13:30:13 Running TASK 1 for 2251799815734269
2019/07/29 13:30:13 [TEN MINUTE TIMER]: start
2019/07/29 13:35:10 [TEN MINUTE TIMER]: finish
2019/07/29 13:35:10 Complete job 2251799815734269 of type TASK 1
After about 5 minutes, the job seems to RETRY, as demonstrated by the log output with Running TASK 1 appearing a second time for the same job key, 5 minutes 3 seconds later.
Ultimately I would like to be able to run the client such that the job will wait until the task finishes. The actual command is to run 3rd party software to resize my cluster, which is why it can potentially take 5 minutes to a couple of hours to finish.
Is there anything in Zeebe that I can configure to make it wait? Or is my BPMN design all wrong? The current design is start->Task1->Task2->finish. The BPMN is new for me as of this year, so my experience with it limited to the experimenting I’ve been doing. Or perhaps it’s my lack of sophistication with go that hinders me! I started learning it only this year as well…
Thank you,
Kim
