cli: Add option to wait for async operation completion until timeout

Command

cf create-service, cf delete-service, soon cf bind-service cf unbind-service

What occurred

Currently, when the underlying broker supports async operations, the command returns with an “operation in progress” message.

Users/scripts/tests have to repeatedly poll for completion of the operation using the status command such as cf-service.

What you expected to occur

Add an option to the CLI command such as --poll-until timeoutInSeconds that would periodically poll the status of the async command, and return until the command completes or the specified timeout (in seconds) triggers

CLI Version

cf version 6.35.2+88a03e995.2018-03-15

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Comments: 17 (8 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Taking my CC developer hat off and putting my App developer hat on.

A wait mechanism is a feature I would love to see. It would stop us having to write scripts like this.

The Services on K8s svcat tool has something similar e.g:

svcat unbind --name vision-binding --wait

Samze on Oct 4, 2018

@gberche-orange The --wait will be available only for the cli v8 (given that a bump in the minimum required version of CAPI is considered a breaking change in the CLI).

We hope to get a beta for it soon (or you can build it from the master branch for the time being 😃).

kirederik on Oct 26, 2020

Hi all,

Apologies for getting back to this story so late. With the implementation of v3 API we have introduced jobs that related to every async operation. This made it possible to have a reliable way to follow operations in the CLI.

With the new major release of the CLI (that should be available soon), you should be able to specify --wait flag to wait for the completion of an operation.This is implemented for cf create-service, cf update-service, cf delete-service and cf bind-route-service and cf unbind-route-service as well.

You can follow the next set of stories relating bind-service and unbind-service

We look forward to feedback on these commands once they are available.

Thanks, Felisia

FelisiaM on Oct 26, 2020