Allow for querying the status of a job

[bfad]

It would be nice to be able to get the status of a quebert job. I would expect to be able to tell if a job is not started, in progress, finished, or ran into an error. (Adding the ability to return a percentage done would also be nice, but maybe a separate feature request.)

[m1foley]

I'd like to replicate resque-status, where jobs update their own status. A blocker seems to be that Quebert jobs don't have access to their unique ID, and jobs cannot be looked up by ID.

[thoughtless]

If you are returning the status, it might also be nice to have some output for a finished job. For example, a job that creates a resources could output an identifier for that resource (such as a database primary key).

Of course, you need somewhere to persist this state information, and somewhere to clean up this information. You don't want to keep around a bunch of "job finished" data forever.

[m1foley]

This has been partially implemented at Poll Everywhere as WithJobStatus. It's dependent on Redis so some effort will be needed to port it to Quebert.