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Bug 366722

Summary:	API for tracking asynchronous, potentially long-running operations in javascript
Product:	[ECD] Orion	Reporter:	Szymon Brandys <Szymon.Brandys>
Component:	Client	Assignee:	Project Inbox <orion.client-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	antonm, john.arthorne, malgorzata.tomczyk, susan, tomasz.zarna
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	7.0
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Szymon Brandys

2011-12-14 11:19:16 EST

It would be good to have API to run asynchronous operations in Orion, something like Jobs API. These tasks would be reported on our task/operation list that Gosia prepared.

I wonder if we could have one API to run asynchronous operations on the client side and for long-running server operations?

Comment 1 Szymon Brandys

2011-12-15 05:37:16 EST

I was thinking about it a bit and what I really had in mind was API similar to IProgressMonitor API. For instance I want to write code like this:

function(){
	progress.beginOperation("myOperation", 100);
	doSomething1();
	progress.worked(50);
	doSomething2();
	progress.done();
}

It would create an operation being tracked by the progress/operations view. So I could start a long operation on one page, switch to another page and track the operation in the mini progress view there. Then I could do something else waiting for the operation to be finished.

Comment 2 Tomasz Zarna

2012-01-04 05:38:49 EST

Mike has shared[1] a link to a javascript lib for thread-like tasks -- task.js

[1] http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/orion-dev/msg01089.html

Comment 3 Szymon Brandys

2012-01-04 06:23:30 EST

(In reply to comment #2)
> Mike has shared[1] a link to a javascript lib for thread-like tasks -- task.js

And the link itself - http://taskjs.org/

Comment 4 Malgorzata Janczarska

2012-01-05 11:18:58 EST

And another helful link:
http://www.useragentman.com/blog/2012/01/03/cross-browser-html5-progress-bars-in-depth/

Comment 5 Anton McConville

2015-05-08 10:26:20 EDT

This is an old bug. The progress monitoring has evolved. Closing this - if future work is identified let's raise a new bug.