Juju Actions - Use Cases

[Richard Harding]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2014, Stuart Bishop wrote:

> On 10 September 2014 19:49, Richard Harding <rick.harding at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> > I think most of the use cases presented so far line up with ours. One I
> > want to call out as interesting and I hadn't thought about is killing a
> > long running action in progress. The example of a database backup. I don't
> > see anything along those lines in the current api doc. You can cancel
> > something from the queue, but can you cancel something running.
>
> I don't think this one impacts the design. The cancel action can kill
> the process being run by the backup action easily enough, and that
> still meets my use case.

Right, but my understanding is that actions are a single queue. If you want
to cancel something in progress you need to jump outside of the queue to
do that.

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Rick Harding

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