Delay Process Plugin

kklosson

In this tutorial, Vlad uses a Delay plugin to insinuate a process taking up time for the sake of the demo. Is this plugin available from someone/somewhere?

kklosson

I’ve tried using Grok to get me through making my own plugin. It gave me the code, which I compiled and (I think) registered in AwareIM. I created a customer process that calls the plugin. That’s where Grok was lost and was certain I could configure some parameters in the Implementation dialog of the process. So, I’m trying on my own but am obviously over my head. I have a process that merges several PDF documents via a CLI to PDFtk (PDF Toolkit). When there are a lot of files to merge, it seems the process gets ahead of itself and I don’t know how to make it wait. I would think that it would wait because EXECUTE PROGRAM has a NO WAIT parameter which I do not use, but it’s unclear how the process knows when EXECUTE PROGRAM is finished.

nhofkes

If I understand correctly, you use an external program to do the PDF merge which is started by EXECUTE PROGRAM, and you want to use the resulting output (merged PDF) after that program is finished. Is it possible to have the output directed to some directory and create a scheduled process that checks regularly (say every 5 seconds) whether the output is already created? In that case you don’t need to wait for it, you only need to create a notification to the user when the program is finished.

kklosson

You got it right and propose an interesting idea. I would like to expand my AwareIM/Java props by developing a plugin. AI puts that in closer reach. I know there are a few videos on Java plugins so, I will study up and see what I can learn.

aware_support3

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Jaymer

You could put your commands in a batch file.
Multiple statements.
And then just call the batch file from aware passing critic passing an argument.
The batch program won’t end till it does all of it steps.
Then will come back to aware.

kklosson

Oh, awesome! So, if I can get it done in a month, just pay one month’s usage?

aware_support3

kklosson

That’s right.

customaware

I do it with a Stored Procedure…. (Maria DB)

DELIMITER //
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE delay_seconds(p_seconds INT)
BEGIN
IF p_seconds IS NULL OR p_seconds < 0 THEN
SET p_seconds = 0;
ELSEIF p_seconds > 3600 THEN
SIGNAL SQLSTATE ‘45000’
SET MESSAGE_TEXT = ‘Sleep duration cannot exceed 3600 seconds (1 hour)’;
END IF;
DO SLEEP(p_seconds);
END //
DELIMITER ;

And test it in the DB like this…..

CALL delay_seconds(2);

Call it in Aware Process Like this…..

EXEC_SP ‘delay_seconds’ WITH ‘p_seconds’= 2