Run in background

[thegabriele97]

Hello!
I am trying to implement a media conversion script that may last for many minutes. Is there a way to execute the script in background? So that the user receive a notification when it is done.

Thank you

[Raudius]

Its not directly implemented but you may be able to achieve something similar by configuring the media conversion script to run via Flow.

You would need to create a separate script to trigger the flow, the easiest way would be by adding a tag to the file. Of course this only works for simple scripts that dont have any other user inputs.

This was a planned feature early on (#7) but its not trivial to develop.

Would need to implement a job queue as well as a way to report results and handle execution errors. There are also other challenges to consider such as limiting the amount of background actions a user can perform and handling idempotency (triggering the same action multiple times before execution is finished).

[Raudius]

Of course this only works for simple scripts that dont have any other user inputs.

You could also forward the inputs payload to the flow script by adding them as a comment to the file. (comment_create, comments_find).