bcquality/custom/knowledge/integration/park-long-running-work-on-a-status-url.bad.al
Tharanga Chandrasekara 07140e2223 Add new action skills for AL testing and documentation
- Introduced `al-test-writer` to generate AL test codeunits for production objects based on TDD principles.
- Added `al-userguide-test-writer` to create test codeunits from user guide steps, mapping actions and assertions.
- Implemented `bc-extension-test-guide` to generate a comprehensive TEST_GUIDE.md for Business Central extensions, covering various categories.
- Created `bc-webclient-runner` to automate UI testing of the Business Central web client, capturing screenshots and asserting UI states.
- Developed `page-scripting-e2e` to produce a recording plan for Page Scripting, ensuring a structured approach to browser-level testing.
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// Anti-pattern: a Job Queue tight loop that Sleep-polls the status URL, with the retry count in
// a local variable that resets on restart. The loop pins a Job Queue slot for the entire
// external wait, and the counter never survives long enough to drive real backoff or give-up.
codeunit 50202 "Long Running Bad"
{
procedure Start(var IntegrationMessage: Record "Integration Message")
var
Client: HttpClient;
Response: HttpResponseMessage;
Location: array[1] of Text;
RetryCount: Integer; // BAD: lost on restart; this state belongs on the message row
begin
Client.Post('https://svc.contoso.com/api/jobs', BuildContent(IntegrationMessage), Response);
Response.Headers().GetValues('Location', Location);
// BAD: a tight Sleep-poll loop INSIDE the Job Queue handler. This single flow now holds a
// Job Queue worker slot for the whole external wait. A flow that can take hours starves
// every other job behind it, because the slot is occupied doing nothing but sleeping.
repeat
Sleep(5000);
// BAD: RetryCount is a local. Every BC restart resets it to zero, so backoff and the
// give-up threshold below never behave correctly across a restart: the loop effectively
// starts over, having forgotten how long it has already been waiting.
RetryCount += 1;
Client.Get(Location[1], Response);
until IsComplete(Response) or (RetryCount > 1000);
// The flow lives only in this session. If BC recycles the session mid-wait, the work is
// orphaned: nothing parked it, so nothing will ever resume it.
end;
}