I need a progress indicator that shows the progress of a parser that
writes the progress to a db. I have several other examples of the need
of informing the users of proress.
I will not put the parser in background process, as I think there
should be a more simple solution, considering all the code that needs
a background process for this solution to work
Could one use a remote ajax call to start the e.g the parser and then
onBefore call and Ajax function that asks the server about the
progress as defined in the db
Is this a possible approach?
I so what Ajax function that asks the server about the progress should
be used?
Are better solutions?
Sorry but there were too many typos Here is a corrected verion
I need a progress indicator that shows the progress of a parser that
also writes the progress state to a db. I have several other examples
of the need
of informing the users of progress of processes that takes some time.
I will not put the parser in a background process, as I think there
should be a more simple solution, considering all the code that needs
a background process for this solution to work i my situation with
many progress indicators
Could one use a remote ajax call to start the e.g the parser and then
call an Ajax function
at the onBefore call back, that asks the server about the progress as
defined in the db
Is this a possible approach?
If so what Ajax function should be used to ask the server db about
progress?
Are there other better solutions?
On Mar 29, 2011, at 7:17 AM, Hans wrote:
many progress indicators
Could one use a remote ajax call to start the e.g the parser and then
call an Ajax function
at the onBefore call back, that asks the server about the progress as
defined in the db
This should work, although you’re possibly going to hit some problems
with server time-out on that initial request. All browsers will give
you 2 request threads at a time, some will give you more than that. So
you’d be filling your pipe with the one long-running one and the
second intermittent “polling” call. If your parsing operation can be
broken into multiple, shorter requests, then that would be the avenue
I would pursue first. Otherwise, you stand to hit some very difficult-
to-diagnose problems going down this route.
As far as how to gauge progress, what sort of data are you storing,
and can you do something lightweight like get a count of the number of
rows when you start, estimate how many rows you will add, and then do
a quick count at each status update request?
Walter
Thanks for your advices
My parsing operation is updating the db about each second
I do not really understand what you mean by “your parsing operation
can be
broken into multiple, shorter requests”,
but in the current implementation is the parsing operation broken into
steps and each step is performed each time the corresponding
controller method is called from the periodically remote Ajax function
Yes, I can do “something lightweight like get a count etc” I am doing
it now and storing the result in the database
Although this approach works for the parsing I do not think it is the
way to go for all processes that needs a progress indicator.
It seems to complicated for just beeing able to inform the user about
progress. I am looking for a simplier method
How is this problem solved bythe rails community? What is best
practice ?
On Mar 29, 2011, at 4:19 PM, Hans wrote:
Thanks for your advices
My parsing operation is updating the db about each second
I do not really understand what you mean by “your parsing operation
can be
broken into multiple, shorter requests”,
but in the current implementation is the parsing operation broken into
steps and each step is performed each time the corresponding
controller method is called from the periodically remote Ajax function
My mistake. I was thinking that your parsing operation was something
larger, like maybe breaking down a large input into multiple records
within the span of one request.
Walter