Async APIs for running actions

[kariharju]

Issue by fabioz
Friday Jan 19, 2024 at 16:45 GMT
Originally opened as robocorp/robocorp#177

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Description

The action server currently only has one API to run the actions which is synchronous. Ideally we'd like APIs which allow the action server to start running and then poll for the result (a 2nd step would be issuing a callback when it finishes).

[kariharju]

Comment by tonnitommi
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024 at 12:02 GMT

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Initially, the recommendation for long-running actions is to revert to Robocorp's Process and Control Room stack, which provides async API, webhooks and the ability to poll the results.

We might revisit the relation between Actions and Processes later.