Is there a terminal Job state? (JobDeliveryStatusService)

I have wired up a way to check the status of jobs. My question is, is there a single state that signifies that nothing further will be done with the job? For example will the complete state be given to jobs that both succeed and fail? Is there something else I can use to determine when I can stop checking the status of a job?

Thanks in advance.

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thuneke

When a job is marked as Completed, it is done. Whether it delivered or did not.

jmelis

Will all jobs eventually get a "Completed" state? In other words is it safe to only look at for the "Completed" state to deterrmine whether or not to continue checking for the status?

thuneke

Yes, all jobs will go to Completed.

jmelis

One last question - I had a job that had the job states of "Processing" and "Error" but it eventually changed to "Completed", "Cancelled", "Posted", is this normal? I would have thought that "Error" would be terminal and end up with something like "Completed", "Error" I would not have expected "Error" to be changed to "Cancelled".

Thanks!

thuneke

Error is sub JobState, so it wil never shoe in the final JobState. What you saw is correct. To see the actual outcom of a job you need to do a JobDeliveryStatusRequest and look in the DeliveryDetail. If there was an error you will see a gamma-code number for what the error was.

thuneke

If a job does error it will be Cancelled automatically or manually.