HI,
I’m a new to Deadline. I’m working on a project that requires that jobs are submitted to deadline automatically via a web service. I was wondering if anyone has done this and if so how I go about achieving this. I can create the web service and handle the jobs coming in and send back a notification once completion. But I’m not sure how to send the job and files to Deadline and how I know once Deadline has completed the job. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Jobs are submitted to Deadline primarily via the command line:
thinkboxsoftware.com/deadlin … o_Deadline
Pretty much all of our submission scripts just wrap this process in a user-friendly manner. I imagine your web service could trigger a submission once the necessary files have been transferred from their original location (assuming those files are on a different network to begin with).
For job completion, you could write an event plugin that triggers whenever a job completes:
thinkboxsoftware.com/deadlin … teventsdk/
The event plugin documentation has an example that submits a quicktime job to build a movie from a completed job’s rendered images. I’m sure you could use that to help you get started.
Hope that helps!