TaskExeContrib development

Improvement ideas

• Support blank space at beginning of output by adding $nop pseudo-variable.
• Support multi-line output, could add support for $n pseudo-variable.
• Support named attachments.
• Sending Email upon task completion. Shall we have an EMAIL or NOTIFY or SENDMAIL command?
• Organize scheduling.
• Add STDERRPARSER command.
• Implement output parser.
• Cancel/Interrupt task functionality.
• Implement QUIET and VERBOSE command. Or Maybe do it using a LOGLEVEL command with predefined values?
• Find a way to store warning and error counts for easy statistic generation - shall we just use form fields?
• Implement SENDMAIL command.
• Implement conditional commands.
• Add pseudo variables for task specification topic: $taskspecweb, $taskspectopic .
• Consider adding something like $config(ConfigVarName) to variable substitutions for accessing executor's config values. Config values are loaded from a config file at executor service start-up time. The config file is more appropriate than a TWiki topic when it comes to store passwords or other sensitive information. It's also useful for storing executor's specific values and keep the task specification generic.

Bugs

• exestart is missing HTTP parameter in redirection to trigger javascript message in the browser.
• Fix br issue.
• Fix extra blank lines after and before output.
• Document configure include issue. It's not needed I think.
• Document CPAN:Config::Simple patch issue. Needed to prevent CPAN:Config::Simple to keep the task file open.
• SENDMAIL issue with attachments display name on Windows.
• Add SHORTDESCRIPTION to contribs and plugin.

Discussions

Thank you Stephane for sharing this and other extensions with the TWikiCommunity!

-- PeterThoeny - 16 May 2007

I added a SHORTDESCRIPTION to the Contrib Info section so that this contrib is listed properly in the Plugins web reports. Could you take this into the next release?

-- PeterThoeny - 16 May 2007

I also noticed I was missing that by looking at the configure plug-in download list. Unfortunately I just released a new version overwriting your changes. I'll try to get it fixed in the next one.

-- StephaneLenclud - 16 May 2007