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On 26 October 2016 at 18:13, Dan Haywood <d...@haywood-associates.co.uk> wrote: > On 26 October 2016 at 17:56, Bilgin Ibryam <bibr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have a use case where the use triggers an actions that takes a >> couple of minutes computation. >> What would be best way to invoke such an action in ISIS? Currently it >> runs in the calling thread and simply the UI hands for a while. >> >> Ideally I like to run that in a background thread, > > > this bit is easy, just use the BackgroundService [1] in conjunction with > the command addon module [2]. then use the Quartz addon module [3] to > invoke queued up commands. > I'll check that. > > > > >> but also give the >> user some indication of progress of the background task. > > > > ... this bit doesn't yet exist. > > We did spike a little counter using Wicket's integration with Atmosphere > [4] a couple of years ago, just to push the current time down to the web > browser, but we didn't take it any further. > > There are a couple of ways I can see this requirement might be tackled, but > perhaps the easiest would be to provide some sort of Wicket widget (maybe > rendered in the footer) that has built-in knowledge of the background > command queue, and so which could indicate to the user what the status of > their job(s) are. When the user clicks on a job it could perhaps render > the persisted Command (or maybe a view model for a simplified UI / could > perhaps go to the "target" / most relevant object that has been updated). > > > Interested in your thoughts; we actually have a somewhat similar > requirement for Estatio, so would be good to kick around some ideas. Are there any examples of simple wicket widget that refresh from the backend? What would be the closes code sampel to that? Thanks > > Thx > Dan > > > > >> I wonder if >> there is anything in the framework or addons that could help me. >> >> > [1] http://isis.apache.org/guides/rgsvc.html#_rgsvc_api_BackgroundService > [2] https://github.com/isisaddons/isis-module-command > [3] https://github.com/isisaddons/isis-module-quartz > [4] http://examples7x.wicket.apache.org/atmosphere/?0 > > > Thanks, >> >> -- >> Bilgin Ibryam >> Camel Committer at ASF & Integration Architect at Red Hat >> Blog: http://ofbizian.com | Twitter: @bibryam >> >> Camel Design Patterns https://leanpub.com/camel-design-patterns >> Instant Apache Camel Message Routing http://www.amazon.com/dp/1783283475 >> -- Bilgin Ibryam Camel Committer at ASF & Integration Architect at Red Hat Blog: http://ofbizian.com | Twitter: @bibryam Camel Design Patterns https://leanpub.com/camel-design-patterns Instant Apache Camel Message Routing http://www.amazon.com/dp/1783283475
