Luup Lua extensions: luup.job

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#1

Is there a formal specification for luup.job.*?

The wiki has no useful information (http://wiki.micasaverde.com/index.php/Luup_Lua_extensions#Job_Handling):

Job Handling

lu_job_set

lu_job_get

I am implementing a line-oriented UI, so I have to check the status of the jobs.

#2

@alfonso,
Can we get some detail on these or, failing that, how we make the “short” status messages that appear below each Device in the Dashboard when they’re doing things?

I have some Alarm Panel code where I’d like to indicate that “features” aren’t enabled etc, and it seems like the [tt]luup.job.{status,set,setting}[/tt] API’s were intended to handle that situation, present messages etc, but it’s hard to reverse engineer their logic.

#3

I’ve updated the Wiki page with some info on these functions. At the moment I don’t know what the fields in the job table are, but as soon as I find out I will complete the descriptions.

As far as I know, the “short” status messages are hardcoded and there is no easy way to write them, but you can look after tag2 in the JavaScript files if you really want to.