Terminating a Job

Problem

You want to terminate a Job associated with your Content.

Solution

Important

This action requires owner, collaborator, or administrator privileges.

Python
R

Note

Requires posit-sdk>=0.6.0

First, obtain the content object. In this example, we get the content using it’s GUID. Then obtain the job using it’s key. Call the destroy method to request a job termination event. This event is asynchronous and will take a few moments to process.

from posit import connect

CONTENT_GUID = '154bd2af-e8fa-4aa4-aab8-dcef701f4af9'
JOB_KEY = 'CwCoI9tizMRRcvLw'

client = connect.Client()
content = client.content.get(CONTENT_GUID)
job = content.jobs.find(JOB_KEY)
job.destroy()

Use the terminate_jobs() function from connectapi to terminate jobs associated with the content item. You will need its GUID. By default, terminate_jobs() terminates all active jobs for a content item. You can optionally pass in one or more job keys to target specific jobs.

Get content GUID from the Dashboard’s Info tab, or by following Viewing Content Information.
To find the job key, see Viewing Jobs for Content.

library(connectapi)

CONTENT_ITEM_GUID <- "154bd2af-e8fa-4aa4-aab8-dcef701f4af9"

client <- connect()
item <- content_item(client, CONTENT_ITEM_GUID)
results <- terminate_jobs(item)

The function returns a data frame with the results of the request.

> results
# A tibble: 2 × 7
  app_id app_guid                             job_key          job_id   result                        code error
   <int> <chr>                                <chr>            <chr>    <chr>                        <int> <chr>
1  52389 154bd2af-e8fa-4aa4-aab8-dcef701f4af9 WVL7uO4mCwe6g7ZA 40870303 Order to kill job registered    NA NA
2  52389 154bd2af-e8fa-4aa4-aab8-dcef701f4af9 OXrb8U6uu1psVGgm 40870302 Order to kill job registered    NA NA

Alternatively, to terminate only one of the jobs, provide its job key.

jobs <- get_jobs(item)
current_jobs <- jobs |>
  filter(status == 0)
target_key <- current_jobs$key[1]
result <- terminate_jobs(item, target_key)

> result
# A tibble: 1 × 7
  app_id app_guid                             job_key          job_id   result                        code error
   <int> <chr>                                <chr>            <chr>    <chr>                        <int> <chr>
1  52389 154bd2af-e8fa-4aa4-aab8-dcef701f4af9 WVL7uO4mCwe6g7ZA 40870303 Order to kill job registered    NA NA

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