11 Rerunnable jobs

There are many cases where an API needs to expose some customizable functionality that runs repeatedly, however we don't always want to be required to provide all the details for that functionality each time it needs to be run. Further, we may want the ability to execute this chunk of configurable work on a schedule that is owned and maintained by the API server rather than invoked by the client. In this pattern, we explore a standard for defining specific units of work that are configurable and rerunnable, potentially by users with different levels of access in the API. We also provide a pattern for storing the output of each of these executions.

11.1  Motivation

11.2  Overview

11.3  Implementation

11.3.1    Job resources

11.3.2    The custom Run method

11.3.3    Job execution resources

11.3.4    Final API definition

11.4  Trade-offs

11.5  Exercises

11.6  Summary

11.7  References