Hi,
Would be nice to have Deadline API functions to allow me to write py scripts to access any of the job reports in READ-ONLY mode.
I have a situation where ideally, I would like to build an event plugin (onJobFinished), which crawls through the job reports looking for certain STDOUT : INFO / WARN messages and collates this information and reacts accordingly. Yep, the reports are XML based and I can parse them myself, but not future proof, like having you guys support API functions to allow easy access 
Thoughts? Would anyone else find this useful, to have access to the job reports?
Thanks,
Mike
Hey Mike,
I think this is doable. We’ll be evaluating the API later on in the beta once things stabilize, so we can investigate then.
I think we would have a function to get all the report “objects” for a job (which store the report’s meta data like which slave it was created on), and then allow you to pass a report object’s ID to another function to get the actual log text for that report.
Cheers,
- Ryan
Perfect!
I see it sitting in nicely with the rest of the “object” orientated API functions recently introduced such as “jobObject”, “slaveObject”, etc.
I think querying the job reports as an object for custom scripts could be quite a lot of fun and would also be interesting to see if other users would then push some of this information into a DB for future use…who know’s?..lots of possibilities…
Thanks,
Mike