Failing Deadline Job From a Scripts

Deadline
1

Hi,

I am working on a script that does need to explicitely fail whole job on a particular failure.
Not only has it to fail a task but whole job in general to prevent any futher tasks from being executed
again and again. How should this be done ?

Deadline is running 3dsmax in full gui mode and executing some maxscript.
Maxscript does use blur python extensions in order to execute some python code.

thank you

2

You can use the FailJob subcommand of DeadlineCommand:

DeadlineCommand.exe FailJob [Job ID(s)]

You can also fail a job through the scripting API. See the FailJob(Job job) function in the Deadline.Scripting.RepositoryUtils class.

3

Hi,

How can I get jobId from within the script executed inside of 3dsmax which is controlled by deadline ?

4

Deadline uses a unique c++ maxscript extension plugin called: “Lightning” within the 3dsmax plugin. This has an exposed Maxscript Interface:
docs.thinkboxsoftware.com/produc … -interface

However, this interface doesn’t currently expose the ability to query a current job’s Deadline property such as JobId, only the JobInfo and PlugInfo KVP’s. This is probably a good feature request for the Lightning plugin.

[s]Here’s a quick hack which should work for now. The returned “JobsDataFolder” already contains the Job Id as a string, so you could just filter it out to grab the Job Id.

DeadlineUtil.JobsDataFolder [/s]

EDIT:
It turns out answering forum threads before at least one strong coffee of a morning is not such a great idea. :blush: All job properties can already be queried via the MaxScript function:\

DeadlineUtil.GetSubmitInfoEntry

So, in the case of Job ID it would be:

DeadlineUtil.GetSubmitInfoEntry "JobId"

For other job properties that you might be interested in, they are all listed here:
docs.thinkboxsoftware.com/produc … properties

5

Thank you for reply. This is great !
Having this Id, how do I call FailJob ?

6

The SMTD based maxscript files have good examples of how a process can be spawned via MaxScript.

[code] fn CallDeadlineCommand command =
(
local resultMsg = “”
try
(
local result = -2

		local submitOutputFile = sysInfo.tempdir + "submitOutput.txt"
		local submitExitCodeFile = sysInfo.tempdir + "submitExitCode.txt"
		
		deleteFile submitOutputFile
		deleteFile submitExitCodeFile
				
		local commandArguments = "-outputfiles \"" + submitOutputFile + "\" \"" + submitExitCodeFile + "\" " + command
     local BinDir = systemTools.getEnvVariable( "DEADLINE_PATH" ) + "\\"
		local deadlineCommandBG = BinDir + "deadlinecommandbg.exe"
		ShellLaunch deadlineCommandBG commandArguments
				
		local startTimeStamp = timestamp()
		local ready = false
		while not ready do
		(
			sleep 0.15
			if doesFileExist submitExitCodeFile do
			(
				local theFile = openFile submitExitCodeFile
				try(result = readValue theFile)catch(result = -2)
				try(close theFile)catch()
				ready = true
			)	
			if timestamp() - startTimeStamp > 10000 then 
			(
				result = -3
				ready = true
			)	
		)
		
		if( result == 0 ) then
		(
			local resultFile = OpenFile submitOutputFile
			if (resultFile != undefined) do
			(
				try(resultMsg = readLine resultFile)catch()
				try(close resultFile)catch()
			)
		)
	) catch ()	
	resultMsg
)[/code]

jobId = DeadlineUtil.GetSubmitInfoEntry "JobId" result = CallDeadlineCommand ("-FailJob " + jobId) print result

The above is untested, but should get you close.