Not able to delete Completed jobs

[arrabito]

I'm trying to delete some completed jobs, but it seems that it's not possible.

Is it a wanted feature? If yes, how do you suggest to proceed?

Thank you.

[arrabito]

I've checked that indeed this is what is implemented in the StateMachine:

DIRAC/src/DIRAC/WorkloadManagementSystem/Client/JobStatus.py

Line 72 in 8d242fc

class JobsStateMachine(StateMachine):

The status from Completed can only go into Done or Failed.

The problem in my case is that the Request associated with the Job is Failed, but the jobs stays Completed forever...

Shouldn't go into Failed as well?

[chaen]

Well, it is not clear what to do with a Job if the request fails. There are cases where you just don't care (for example, imagine a failover request which is just for accounting).
So the policy is to do nothing.
In general, a Request should never fail, so it always requires assistance :-)

[arrabito]

OK thanks, I see your point. So a related question is if there any command to set Completed jobs either to Done, either to Failed.

I found that one can do that using:

DIRAC.WorkloadManagementSystem.Client.JobReport
...
jobReport.setJobStatus("Failed")

but I don't know if this is the optimal way to do it.

Thanks.

[fstagni]

As In 7.3 there's a WMS state machine (the allowed transitions are defined in https://github.com/DIRACGrid/DIRAC/blob/rel-v7r3/src/DIRAC/WorkloadManagementSystem/Client/JobStatus.py#L72).

Anyway:

from DIRAC.WorkloadManagementSystem.Client.JobStateUpdateClient import JobStateUpdateClient
JobStateUpdateClient().setJobStatus(jobID, status="", minorStatus="", force=True)

would do it.

[arrabito]

OK Thank you.