Querying the Status of an Asynchronous Job

Function

This is an extension API. It is used to query for the execution status of an asynchronous job, for example, querying for the execution status of an image exporting job.

URI

GET /v1/{project_id}/jobs/{job_id}

Table 1 lists the parameters in the URI.

**Table 1** Parameter description
Parameter	Mandatory	Description
project_id	Yes	Specifies the project ID.
job_id	Yes	Specifies the asynchronous job ID.

Request

Request parameters

None

Example Request

Querying the status of an asynchronous job

GET /v1/ac234de25c6741d2b1273da49eea1b9e/jobs/ff8080814dbd65d7014dbe0d84db0013

Response

Response parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
status	String	Specifies the job status. The value can be: SUCCESS: The job is successfully executed. FAIL: The job failed to be executed. RUNNING: The job is in progress. INIT: The job is being initialized.
job_id	String	Specifies the job ID.
job_type	String	Specifies the job type. imsCreateImageByInstance: Creating a system disk image from a cloud server imsImportImageJob: Creating a system disk image from an external image file imsImportOvaImageJob: Creating an image from an OVA image file imsVolumeCreateImageJob: Creating a data disk image from a cloud server imsImportDataImageJob: Creating a data disk image from an external image file imsCreateWholeImageByInstanceJob: Creating a full-ECS image from an ECS imsCreateWholeImageByBackupJob: Creating a full-ECS image from a CBR or CSBS backup imsNativeImportImageJob: Registering an image imsNativeExportImageJob: Exporting image imsAddImageMembersJob: Adding tenants that can use a shared image imsDelImageMembersJob: Deleting tenants that can use a shared image imsUpdateImageMembersJob: Updating status of tenants who will accept or reject shared images imsCopyImageInRegionJob: Replicating images
begin_time	String	Specifies the start time of the job. The value is in UTC format.
end_time	String	Specifies the end time of the job. The value is in UTC format.
error_code	String	Specifies the error code.
fail_reason	String	Specifies the failure cause.
entities	Object	Specifies the custom attributes of the job. If the job status is normal, the image ID will be returned. If the status is abnormal, an error code and details will be returned. For details, see Table 2.

**Table 2** Data structure description of the entities field
Parameter	Type	Description
image_id	String	Specifies the image ID.
current_task	String	Specifies the job name.
image_name	String	Specifies the image name.
process_percent	Double	Specifies the job progress.
results	Array of result objects	Specifies job execution results. For details, see Table 3.
sub_jobs_result	Array of objects	Specifies sub-job execution results. For details, see Table 4.
sub_jobs_list	Array of string	Specifies the sub-job IDs.

**Table 3** Data structure description of the result field
Parameter	Type	Description
image_id	String	Specifies the image ID.
project_id	String	Specifies the project ID.
status	String	Specifies the job status.

**Table 4** Data structure description of the SubJobResult field
Parameter	Type	Description
status	String	Specifies the sub-job status. The value can be: SUCCESS: The sub-job is successfully executed. FAIL: The sub-job failed to be executed. RUNNING: The sub-job is in progress. INIT: The sub-job is being initialized.
job_id	String	Specifies a sub-job ID.
job_type	String	Specifies the sub-job type.
begin_time	String	Specifies the start time of the sub-job. The value is in UTC format.
end_time	String	Specifies the end time of the sub-job. The value is in UTC format.
error_code	String	Specifies the error code.
fail_reason	String	Specifies the failure cause.
entities	Object	Specifies the custom attributes of the sub-job. For details, see Table 5. If a sub-job is properly executed, an image ID is returned. If an exception occurs on the sub-job, an error code and associated information are returned.

**Table 5** Data structure description of the SubJobEntities field
Parameter	Type	Description
image_id	String	Specifies the image ID.
image_name	String	Specifies the image name.

Example response

STATUS CODE 200

      
       
         
         
           {
    "status": "SUCCESS",
    "entities": {
        "image_id": "e9e91bff-14b6-4a0b-8377-4ed0813e3360",
        "image_name": "asdfasdfasdfas",
        "process_percent": 0.20,
        "current_task": "CreateImageByInstanceTask",
        "results": [{
                "image_id": "49e9447f-7dff-41e0-8036-f66fe5488c8b",
                "project_id": "089b2f9a3d80d3062f24c00ca4ed5cbd",
                "status": "success"
            }
        ]
    },
    "job_id": "ff8080814dbd65d7014dbe0d84db0013",
    "job_type": "createImageByInstance",
    "begin_time": "04-Jun-2015 18:11:06:586",
    "end_time": "",
    "error_code": null,
    "fail_reason": null
}

          

        

      
     

Returned Values

Normal
200

Abnormal

Returned Value	Description
400 Bad Request	Request error.
401 Unauthorized	Authentication failed.
403 Forbidden	You do not have the rights to perform the operation.
500 Internal Server Error	Internal service error.
503 Service Unavailable	The service is unavailable.