topic Re: How to get a trigger from recipe function? in Workato Pros Discussion Board

How to get a trigger from recipe function?

bhavesh-patel — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 20:52:24 GMT

How can we know that if recipe function called from a parent function is completed all it's job? Is there any trigger we can use to see if recipe function has completed all jobs so we can trigger an email like all jobs are completed.

If somebody has done it, please let us know.

Thanks in advance.

Re: How to get a trigger from recipe function?

senthilkumar-kp — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 21:00:45 GMT

You can use return response from the child recipe. to know the status or output of the child recipe

Re: How to get a trigger from recipe function?

sunaif-aziz — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 21:02:19 GMT

There are two types of calls to recipe function, if you call it synchronously then it means that the function has completed executing all steps. So any awaiting actions can follow in your parent recipe (or any other function)

Re: How to get a trigger from recipe function?

bhavesh-patel — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 21:04:58 GMT

Due to 90 minutes timeout limitation, we need to call async recipe function so can't return output from child recipe to parent one

Re: How to get a trigger from recipe function?

senthilkumar-kp — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 21:14:18 GMT

U can create a new recipe to fetch the error details...the trigger part is Recipe ops and you can pass the child recipe I'd in the trigger

Re: How to get a trigger from recipe function?

sunaif-aziz — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 21:17:38 GMT

If it is hours long function then I'd go for async call and for monitoring the function you may use "Wait for an async call" action in "Recipe function by workato" which periodically checks your function to complete before proceeding.

Documentation here: https://docs.workato.com/connectors/recipe-functions/actions/wait-for-async-calls.html

Re: How to get a trigger from recipe function?

bhavesh-patel — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 21:33:16 GMT

but that might hit the limit error in main recipe as we can't run a job for more than 90 minutes

Re: How to get a trigger from recipe function?

bhavesh-patel — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 21:34:19 GMT

We can try this, so we can create a list in 3rd recipe but how we will know that all jobs are completed? we are looking for that trigger which shows us that jobs are completed in 2nd recipe

Re: How to get a trigger from recipe function?

senthilkumar-kp — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 21:39:32 GMT

Another way to add error moniter block to the child recipe

Re: How to get a trigger from recipe function?

bhavesh-patel — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 21:41:52 GMT

Senthilkumar K P we have done this.

Re: How to get a trigger from recipe function?

bhavesh-patel — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 21:42:35 GMT

We are looking for what to do on step 6 in above screenshot.

Re: How to get a trigger from recipe function?

senthilkumar-kp — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 21:44:45 GMT

Instead of logger you can use email to intimate with the error details

Re: How to get a trigger from recipe function?

gary1 — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 22:23:56 GMT

Write the log/error message and relevant info to a database or a message queue, and then do something with the queue, like re-process them, or do whatever needs to be done when you encounter an error.

Re: How to get a trigger from recipe function?

kkamal — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 19:52:07 GMT

This is old thread but interesting one. Here's how I would solve this issue this today:

Context: You have parent recipe calling child recipes (async) so it wont return data from child. You want to know if all the child calls have been completed.

I believe RecipeOps Connector by workato can help writing optimized recipe for this. (heres the api i would recommend https://docs.workato.com/connectors/recipeops/actions/search-job-history.html#recipeops-search-job-history-action)

One solution could be in line of having a scheduled job to check failed, pending jobs and using "Calling job ID" attribute to understand whats completed. You can maintain some state of Parent Job Ids in Lookup Table for quick access.