Introduction to Amazon Code Pipeline with Java part 23: job worker daemon wrap-up

Introduction

In the previous post we finished discussing the job poller implementation. The job poller’s execute function runs every time the job agent polls Code Pipeline for new jobs. The job poller is responsible for pulling the new jobs and handing them over to the job service and job processor that will process them in some way. The poller will also send a signal to CP whether the job was a success or failure. The exact branching depends on the job status.

We’re now ready to return to the job worker daemon implementation. We’ve seen all the classes that the job worker calls upon either directly or indirectly so it’s time to connect the parts. We’ll do that in this post.

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Introduction to Amazon Code Pipeline with Java part 22: the job poller implementation

Introduction

In the previous post we looked at the job service interface and its implementation. The job service is responsible for polling for new jobs, acknowledging them and setting their final statuses to either success or failure. Much of the implementation uses the AWS client library to execute the work. We also know that each job polling thread will get a job service. The functions in the job service will be called by the job poller at a fixed interval.

We also started looking into the job poller implementation briefly but the job service took up most of the discussion. In this post we’ll finish the job poller class.

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Introduction to Amazon Code Pipeline with Java part 21: the job service

Introduction

In the previous post we looked at the job worker configuration class. It’s not a very complicated implementation. It basically constructs a job poller for each CP region the job agent will monitor. It also constructs an AWS client with the proper AWS credentials.

There are a couple more building blocks of the third party action before we have a functioning system. One of them is the implementation of the JobPoller interface which is the topic of this post. In particular we’ll be looking at one of the dependencies of the job poller, the job service class.

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Introduction to Amazon Code Pipeline with Java part 19: the job worker initialisation and the job poller interface

Introduction

In the previous post we first discussed the idea of a daemon thread. A daemon thread is most often used to initiate a long running task on its own thread so that the main executing thread is not blocked. A daemon thread is a good candidate to execute the Code Pipeline monitoring task. It will run in the background after executing the servlet initiator class which in turn is run automatically upon application start-up. We also saw how the daemon thread is started in code. However, we still know very little about the class that implements the daemon thread.

We’ll dive into that in this post.

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Introduction to Amazon Code Pipeline with Java part 18: the job worker thread

Introduction

In the previous post we looked at an implementation stub for the JobProcessor interface. The implementation reflects our real life Code Pipeline third party action job process. The business specific logic has been omitted of course as that is not crucial for understanding the code. Probably the most important bit was checking whether the continuation token was present in the incoming Code Pipeline job. That was the basis for distinguishing new load tests from ongoing ones. We also saw how to indicate to CP that a job is ongoing or whether it has finished with success or failure.

In this post we’ll start looking into how to start the job checking thread.

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Introduction to Amazon Code Pipeline with Java part 17: the JobProcessor implementation

Introduction

In the previous post we continued to explore the job processor interface of the job agent. In particular we looked at the WorkResult object which holds a number of properties that describe the job result. These include a summary message, the failure reason, the progress made and various others.

In this post we’ll discuss a possible implementation of the JobProcessor interface. Note that the exact implementation will depend on your business since this is where the actual Code Pipeline work item is processed. Our implementation the interface is also very tightly coupled with the load testing domain of our business. Hence I won’t present every single detail around that code as much of it irrelevant for Code Pipeline and the job agent.

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Introduction to Amazon Code Pipeline with Java part 16: the WorkResult object

Introduction

In the previous post we looked at the job processor interface of the Code Pipeline third party action job agent. The job processor is responsible for processing a new job item returned by polling a Code Pipeline endpoint. The interface has a single method called process which accepts a WorkItem object and returns a WorkResult object. We discussed the WorkItem object in detail. In this post we’ll go through the WorkItem object.

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