1413631 - Expose present field in listArtifacts method

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Taskcluster :: Services, enhancement, P5)

Description

[John Ford [:jhford] CET/CEST Berlin Time]

We should show whether the present field is true or false, then update tools.tc.net to highlight incomplete artifacts

Comment 1

[Dustin J. Mitchell [:dustin] (he/him)]

John, is this a bug you could mentor?

Comment 2

[John Ford [:jhford] CET/CEST Berlin Time]

I can help with exposing that field in the api, but I think Hassan or Eli would be a better mentor for the tools.tc.net changes required.

Comment 3

[Hassan Ali (:hassan)]

Sounds good. Let me know when the fields have been exposed and ready to be displayed in the UI.

Comment 4

[:Eli Perelman]

Sounds simple as long as the data is there. Which tool would this be going in?

Comment 5

[Dustin J. Mitchell [:dustin] (he/him)]

Definitely in the unified inspector, and maybe also in the index browser.

Comment 6

[Jonas Finnemann Jensen (:jonasfj)]

Wouldn't it be better to filter out blob artifacts that have "present: false"?

We can only do this filtering for storageType: 'blob',
But long-term we only want storageType: 'blob', anyways.
And I would argue we don't want users to consider artifacts as entities that can be present or not :)

ie. this would introduce a new concept users have to related to. Namely: an artifact being present or not.

In the ideal world where we only have storageType: 'blob', people shouldn't know about artifacts that are
not present. Or perhaps such artifacts should be presented as 'error' artifacts. That might help debugging workers.

Comment 7

[Jonas Finnemann Jensen (:jonasfj)]

How do you feel about filtering blob artifacts based on "present" instead?

Comment 8

[John Ford [:jhford] CET/CEST Berlin Time]

I think that being able to see that an artifact was created but not completed is very useful when debugging a problem.  It'd show that if things aren't working as expected, a likely cause is that an upload didn't complete.

Comment 9

[Dustin J. Mitchell [:dustin] (he/him)]

With the object-service, we don't track presence in the artifact, but the object doesn't "exist" until it's been completely uploaded. So this will appear as an artifact with an object that 404's.