Last week of google summer of code (2009) Friday, August 14, 2009

It has come to the last few days of GSoC2009. I couldnt keep up with blogging my work in the past weeks. Here's a list which consist of my weekly progress. (extracted from projects tracking document)

Iteration #1 (Sunday, May 31, 2009)

• Created new basic module for quartz scheduler
• Committed quartzscheduler module to the svn repository
  
• Made module deployable in OpenMRS 1.5
• Integrated code and configuration that has already been written into the new module
• Allow user to schedule a simple hello world task to write a message to the log on some interval

Iteration #2 (Sunday June 7, 2009)

• Got to know more on how quartz work and its post-schedule(what options does it have after scheduling a job) features.
• User stories 35-38 (Edit/new Task page)
• 35. Allow users to enter the task name of the class.
  36. Allow users to enter the description of the schedule.
  37. Allow users to set the priority of the schedule.
  38. Allow users to set the recurrence option for the schedule
  a) Run Once
  b) Seconds
  c) Minutes
  d) Hours
  e) Daily
  f) Weekly
  g) Monthly
  h) Yearly
  i) Cron

Iteration #3 (Sunday June 14, 2009)

• User stories 8-14 (scheduler Manager page)
• 8. Allow users to view class name of the class being scheduled.
  a. Allow users to click on the class name and view a full description of it.
  9. Allow users to view the owner of a particular schedule.
  10. Allow users to view the date of which a particular schedule is created.
  11. Allow users to view the date of which a particular schedule is be stopped running.
  12. Allow users to view the priority of a particular schedule.
  13. Allow users to view the status of a particular schedule.
  a. Started
  b. Stopped
  c. Finished
  d. Failed
  14. Allow users to view the next occurrence time of which the scheduler will start executing.
• User stories (view Task page )
• Allow user to view the status of a particular schedule (Started, Stopped, Finished, Failed).
• Allow user to view the next occurrence time of which the scheduler will start executing.
• Allow user to view the date of which a particular schedule is being stopped running.
• Allow user to view the status of a particular schedule.
• Allow user to view the description of the status of a particular schedule.
• Added more strict validations to the scheduler Form page
  

Iteration #4 (due Sunday June 21, 2009)

completed implementation of the following pages:

• Scheduler Manager Page
• View Task Page
• Create Task Page

• QA test on the Create Task page (Bugs Found):
  
• RunOnce
• Seconds
• when selected the repeat option it always executes one more time than what i put.
  
• Minutes
• Doesnt execute on the given end time. the schedule finished before it.
• when selected the repeat option it always executes one more time than what i put.
• Hours
• when selected the repeat option it always executes one more time than what i put.
• Implement user stories 15-17
• Allow users to execute a particular task immediately.
  Allow users to skip the next occurrence of a task from being executed.
  Allow users to delete a particular schedule.
• Finalize feature list of the 3 pages with Justin.
• Finish the View Task page completely.
• Try to integrate openMRS Jobs, replacing the hello world dummy job.
• Deploy quartz scheduler module to labs
  

Iteration #5 (due Sunday June 28, 2009)

• Scheduler Types QA
  

Iteration #6 (due Sunday July 5, 2009)

• Fixed scheduling bugs in the TabsForm page.
• Allow user to restart the scheduler.
• Allow user to Pause all schedules in the scheduler.
• Allow user to resume all paused schedules.
• Allow user to view a particular tasks, number of remaining executions.
• Allow user to click on the class name and view a full description of it (scheduler manager page).
• Allow user to view a particular schedules list of execution dates
• Allow user to view number of jobs in the Scheduler.
• Allow user to view number of jobs by status (started, finished, failed, stopped).

Iteration #7 (due Sunday July 12, 2009)

• Followed up with some R&D on how to edit quartz JobDataMap on the fly.
• Fixed remaining bugs.

Iteration #8 (due Sunday July 19, 2009)

• Changed DumbJob to TaskWrapper
  
• view_tasks.jsp renamed to taskList.jsp
• tabForms.jsp renamed to taskForm.jsp
• Added the drop down list. other changes will follow after a UAT
  
• Schedule List on the View Task page should be "Next 10 execution times"
• Added Light Green and red. Green shows started tasks. Red shows paused/stopped tasks
  
• The "Run Now" and "Delete" buttons should be on opposite sides. In addition, the "delete" button should be smaller (the "trash" icon) or should be a checkbox, with a Delete Selected button under the table (or in the table footer).
• Added server time to the create task page.
  
• Removed priority from the Create Task and leave that as a detail for the Edit Task page.
  
• The Scheduler Manage page should also show the current time so users can compare the current time against all of the tasks that are in the system.
• Added the scheduler logger page with tailing functionality.
• Added the base to send notification mail
• Added the edit task functionality.

Iteration #9 (due Sunday July 26, 2009)

• Added Notification sending features
• Added properties functionality
• minor UI changes
  

Iteration #10 (due Sunday Aug 2, 2009)

• added the notification Title after the UI change
• UI changes (new functionality should stop at this stage)

Iteration #11 (due Sunday Aug 9, 2009)

• UI
  
  Renamed Scheduler Manager to Task Manager
  Renamed Scheduler Summary to Scheduler Manager
  
  ===== Scheduler Manager===========
  
  Added some spacing between the scheduler Manager buttons
  Added tooltips to Restart/Pause/Resume buttons saying what itll do.
  
  ===== Scheduler Log ===========
  • Changed "Tail Every" to be "Refresh every" with option (Never, 10 seconds, 30 seconds, 60 seconds)
  • Changed "Get Log Now!" to "Refresh Now"
  • added < style="overflow: auto; height:400px"> ... < /div > around the logging contents so the user sees the whole page and only the logging content is scrollable.
  
  
  ===== Task Form ===========
  • Made the dialog box a little wider and taller. Maybe 750 x 550.
  • For the "Often" radio button, add "Every" above the options (like this)
  Every
  ( ) _____ seconds
  ( ) _____ minutes
  ( ) _____ hours
  ( ) _____ days
  ( ) weekday (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday)
  
  
  • Changed the "Start Date" / "Run Time" to be a single line (like "End at")
  Start at [01] [00] [00] [AM] [08/04/2009 ][cal]
  
  
  • Moved the server time to the "When do you want to start?" section
  When do you want to start?
  -------------------------------------------------
  The current time on the server is: 01:34:59 PM
  Start at [01] [00] [00] [AM] [08/04/2009 ][cal]
  
  
  • Changed "Repeat infinite times" to "Repeat forever"
  
  
  Funtionality
  
  • Added the Edit QuartzTask method
  • mail fix (receive only once)
  • Surrounded the pause/start scheduler with a box
  • Number of lines displayed message in the scheduler log
  • Fixed the Email URL

Iteration #12 (due Sunday Aug 16, 2009)

• Tooltips made more consistent.
• resuming a task would work only if the scheduler is in running state
• Added sorting by title to the scheduler manager datagrid.
• close button (x) was made consistent in the create task page.
• made the module user guide.
• blog and project page update.