Instead, it illustrates calls to the API via the Golang bbs.Client interface. Each method on that Client interface takes a lager.Logger as the first argument to log errors generated within the client. This first Logger argument will not be duplicated on the descriptions of the method arguments.

For detailed information on the types referred to below, see the godoc documentation for the BBS models.

Internal Tasks APIs

StartTask

BBS API Endpoint

POST a StartTaskRequest to /v1/tasks/start and receive a StartTaskResponse.

Golang Client API

StartTask(logger lager.Logger, taskGuid string, cellID string) (bool, error)

Input

• taskGuid string: The GUID of the Task to start.
• cellID string: ID of the cell intending to start the Task.

Output

• bool: true if the Task should be started, false if not.
• error: Non-nil if error occurred.

Example

client := bbs.NewClient(url)
shouldStart, err := client.StartTask(logger, "task-guid", "cell-1")
if err != nil {
    log.Printf("failed to start task: " + err.Error())
}
if shouldStart {
  log.Print("task should be started")
} else {
  log.Print("task should NOT be started")
}

FailTask

Deprecated in favor of CompleteTask and CancelTask.

BBS API Endpoint

POST a FailTaskRequest to /v1/tasks/fail and receive a TaskLifecycleResponse.

Golang Client API

FailTask(logger lager.Logger, taskGuid, failureReason string) error

Input

• taskGuid string: The GUID of the Task to fail.
• failureReason string: Reason why the Task failed.

Output

• error: Non-nil if an error occurred.

Example

client := bbs.NewClient(url)
err := client.FailTask(logger, "task-guid", "not enough resources")
if err != nil {
    log.Printf("could not fail task: " + err.Error())
}

RejectTask

BBS API Endpoint

POST a RejectTaskRequest to /v1/tasks/reject and receive a TaskLifecycleResponse.

Golang Client API

RejectTask(logger lager.Logger, taskGuid, rejectionReason string) error

Input

• taskGuid string: The GUID of the Task to fail.
• rejectReason string: Reason why the Task was rejected.

Output

• error: Non-nil if an error occurred.

Example

client := bbs.NewClient(url)
err := client.RejectTask(logger, "task-guid", "not enough resources")
if err != nil {
    log.Printf("could not reject task: " + err.Error())
}

CompleteTask

BBS API Endpoint

POST a CompleteTaskRequest to /v1/tasks/fail and receive a TaskLifecycleResponse.

Golang Client API

CompleteTask(logger lager.Logger, taskGuid, cellId string, failed bool, failureReason, result string) error

Input

• taskGuid string: The GUID of the Task to complete.
• cellID string: ID of the cell intending to complete the Task.
• failed bool: Whether the Task failed.
• failureReason string: If Task failed, the reason why the Task failed.
• result string: If Task succeeded, result of the Task.

Output

• error: Non-nil if an error occurred.

Example

client := bbs.NewClient(url)
err = client.CompleteTask(logger, "task-guid", "cell-1", false, "", "result")
if err != nil {
    log.Printf("could not complete task: " + err.Error())
}