jobs
Several Product Experience Manager endpoints function as jobs. When any of these endpoints are run, a job is automatically created.
- product import.
- product export.
- price book import.
- duplicating hierarchies.
- building child products.
Characteristics of Jobs
Jobs have the following characteristics.
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Jobs are asynchronous.
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Jobs have a different status, depending on where a job is in its lifecycle. See Job Lifecycle.
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Jobs include the data used when an endpoint is run.
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Jobs are processed one at a time. You can continue to send requests using endpoints that function as jobs, but those jobs are queued. In other words, Commerce looks for any jobs that have a status of PENDING and starts the job with the earliest created date. This process is repeated until all jobs are processed.
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Jobs report messages and/or errors to help you understand:
- what changes a job implemented in Commerce.
- the reasons for any failed jobs.
Job Lifecycle
A job has the following lifecycle.
- PENDING - Commerce has received the request but is currently busy processing other requests.
- STARTED - Commerce has started processing the job.
- SUCCESS - The job has successfully completed.
- FAILED - The job has failed. See Get job errors.