How to write a Async job that shows on Jobs console?

[saravanaprakash]

I am writing a long-running job that is expected to be intensive and long-running. The Asynchronous Operations looks promising and the Jobs console is nice similar to workflow console, showing job status, logs etc. 

How to write a new custom async job? Am able to create sling job, stores into /var, but it is NOT showing in Jobs console. How to get the custom jobs show under Tools --> General --> Jobs console?

[Sachin_Arora_]

Hi @saravanaprakash 

Looks like Async APIs are Adobe internal APIs and you can not use same. I used Java Decompiler to check how Async jobs are created. This is the class Adobe has used to extend to write Async Job : 

com.adobe.granite.jobs.async.commons.AbstractAsyncJobExecutor

But there is not much information of same online. 

If you want to see the status of Sling jobs, you can go to /system/console/slingevent and search for the topic you used to create a job. It will show you the count of failed/completed jobs. For example 

[saravanaprakash]

Thanks Sachin. Yeah, I too am decompiling, duplicating the code and trying to make it work. Just the Jobs console looks better than felix, shows logs, can add interested properties. Was wondering if anyone had already managed to write a custom async job successfully. 

[Lokesh_Vajrala · Accepted solution]

In order to see your custom job under Tools --> General --> Jobs console, you've to write a new class implementing 

AsyncOperationConfigProviderService

separate from the actual sling async job implementation. 

This Servlet renders jobs data in console - 

AsyncJobsDataSourceServlet

which displays the jobs that are implementing AsyncOperationConfigProviderService. For reference, please check the following component services in OSGi console (/system/console/components) 

• com.adobe.granite.jobs.async.ui.commons.AsyncJobsDataSourceServlet
• com.day.cq.dam.asset.sourcing.impl.async.AsyncAssetImportConfigProviderService

One thing I could not confirm is that uber-jar or aem-sdk-api(for cloud service) exposes the AsyncOperationConfigProviderService for custom implementation.