Hi Rute,

The retry-strategy has been fixed and the modifications from 
http://opencast.jira.com/browse/MH-9013 have been merged in 1.4.x. You can use 
this functionnality again.

Xavier

On Aug 7, 2012, at 4:31 PM, Xavier Butty <[email protected]> wrote:

> The best solution is to use the "stop" method from the Workflow Service Rest 
> endpoint. You can simply use it through the Workflow Service Rest 
> documentation (http://localhost:8080/docs.html?path=/workflow). If it still 
> does not work, you can try the "delete" method from the same service.
> 
> Xavier
> 
> On Aug 6, 2012, at 4:54 PM, Rute Santos <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Xavier,
>> 
>>     Thanks for replying. I am happy to know that this will be fixed soon :) 
>> I am still having problems with it because the operation is re-tried every 
>> time I sanitize the service and I haven't found a way yet to stop it... Is 
>> there a way to completely delete a workflow in process? 
>>     Thanks,
>> 
>>     Rute
>> 
>> 
>> On 8/6/2012 10:18 AM, Xavier Butty wrote:
>>> Hi Rute,
>>> 
>>> The functionality you are looking for has been implemented already, and the 
>>> "hold" strategy should indeed put the workflow on hold, offering the 
>>> administrator the possiblity to either retry or discard. Looking at the 
>>> code, it seems that this part of the retry implementation got messed up 
>>> when merging it into 1.4 quite a while ago. Please track MH-9013 for the 
>>> status of         this problem.
>>> 
>>> Here are the answers to your questions:
>>> 
>>>> 1) If I don't specify max-attempts, will it try the operation forever 
>>>> until the service is fixed?
>>> 
>>> The default value of max-attemps is 1. But for the hold state strategy, the 
>>> operation will go directly in hold state without trying a second time. 
>>> 
>>>> 2) Shouldn't the workflow stay in on-hold instead of running state? I was 
>>>> expecting to see an admin screen to select the retry strategy for the 
>>>> failed operation.
>>> 
>>> Yes it should work as described on 
>>> http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/MH/Retry+Strategies. You should able 
>>> to choose to select the retry strategy. 
>>> 
>>>> 3) How do I remove it from this state? :)
>>> 
>>> As described above, the functinoality is currently broken but should soon 
>>> be fixed.
>>> 
>>> Xavier
>>>  
>>>  
>>> On Aug 1, 2012, at 5:24 PM, Rute Santos wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>>     I defined an operation in a workflow with retry-strategy="hold" and 
>>>> did not specify max-attempts. The operation failed and the workflow 
>>>> remained in RUNNING state. I sanitized the service and the operation 
>>>> failed again (I tried this many times). So my questions are:
>>>> 1) If I don't specify max-attempts, will it try the operation forever 
>>>> until the service is fixed?
>>>> 2) Shouldn't the workflow stay in on-hold instead of running state? I was 
>>>> expecting to see an admin screen to select the retry strategy for the 
>>>> failed operation.
>>>> 3) How do I remove it from this state? :)
>>>>     Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>>     Rute
>>>> 
>>>> 
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