Method GetAsyncJobResult

cloudstack/cloudstack.go:487–524

A helper function that you can use to get the result of a running async job. If the job is not finished within the configured timeout, the async job returns a AsyncTimeoutErr.

(jobid string, timeout int64)

// A helper function that you can use to get the result of a running async job. If the job is not finished within the configured
// timeout, the async job returns a AsyncTimeoutErr.
func (cs *CloudStackClient) GetAsyncJobResult(jobid string, timeout int64) (json.RawMessage, error) {
	var timer time.Duration
	currentTime := time.Now().Unix()

	for {
		p := cs.Asyncjob.NewQueryAsyncJobResultParams(jobid)
		r, err := cs.Asyncjob.QueryAsyncJobResult(p)
		if err != nil {
			return nil, err
		}

		// Status 1 means the job is finished successfully
		if r.Jobstatus == 1 {
			return r.Jobresult, nil
		}

		// When the status is 2, the job has failed
		if r.Jobstatus == 2 {
			if r.Jobresulttype == "text" {
				return nil, fmt.Errorf(string(r.Jobresult))
			} else {
				return nil, fmt.Errorf("Undefined error: %s", string(r.Jobresult))
			}
		}

		if time.Now().Unix()-currentTime > timeout {
			return nil, AsyncTimeoutErr
		}

		// Add an (extremely simple) exponential backoff like feature to prevent
		// flooding the CloudStack API
		if timer < 15 {
			timer++
		}

		time.Sleep(timer * time.Second)
	}
}

// Execute the request against a CS API. Will return the raw JSON data returned by the API and nil if
// no error occurred. If the API returns an error the result will be nil and the HTTP error code and CS