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Add or modify a background job type in lncrawl — JobType enum, JobService factory, handler class, registry, notifications. Use when creating a new job kind, changing a handler, or debugging job scheduling/cancellation.

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Adding a job type

Job execution: JobScheduler (services/scheduler/service.py) spawns daemon worker threads — N general runners (count from ctx.config.crawler.runner_concurrency), one dedicated artifact-only worker, one Scrubber loop, and one stale-job reset loop. JobRunner (runner.py) claims jobs; handlers in scheduler/handlers/ execute them.

The recipe, end to end

  1. Enum — add a member to JobType(IntEnum) in lncrawl/enums.py (values are grouped by domain; pick a free integer near its siblings). Enums re-export automatically via dao/__init__.py.
  2. Postgres enum-sync migration — required because enum columns are stored by name and are native ENUM types on Postgres (SQLite stores VARCHAR, no DDL needed). Model it on an existing sync_* migration in migrations/versions/: raw op.execute DDL guarded by op.get_context().dialect.name == 'postgresql', no-op otherwise. Alembic autogenerate will NOT produce this.
  3. JobService factory — add a def my_job(self, user, ..., *, parent_id=None, depends_on=None, **data) -> Job method in services/jobs/service.py that funnels into self._create(...). _create applies tier limits (ctx.tier.max_active_jobs), sets priority=ctx.tier.job_priority(user), resolves domain, and rolls total up the ancestor chain. If the job hits one source domain and must respect the one-running-job-per-domain rule, add its type to _DOMAIN_JOB_TYPES and make sure the job data lets _resolve_domain work (domain/url/novel_id/chapter_id).
  4. Handler — create services/scheduler/handlers/my_job.py:
    • BaseHandler for a leaf job; BatchHandler when the job spawns child jobs.
    • Implement can_activate(job) (match on job.type) and run().
    • Register it in _HANDLER_REGISTRY in handlers/__init__.py — before FallbackHandler, which must stay last (it fails any unmatched job).
  5. job_title — add a branch in Job.job_title (dao/job.py) so the UI/logs render a label.
  6. API endpoint (usually) — a POST /api/job/create/<hyphenated-kind> route in server/api/jobs.py with Security(ensure_user) and a Pydantic body model from server/models/, calling the JobService factory.

Handler contract (handlers/_base.py)

  • Constructor gets (job, signal); process() wraps run() with logging and terminal-state handling: AbortedException → silent stop, HandlerException → failure with its message, any other exception → generic failure.
  • Helpers _set_running(), _increment(), _set_success(), _set_failure(), _set_extra(**values) commit their own DB session and call ctx.job_notifier.notify(...) — email notifications come for free; don't call the notifier manually.
  • Idiom inside run(): if not self.job.is_running: self._set_running(), and poll if self.signal.is_set(): raise AbortedException() between units of work — cancellation is cooperative; nothing kills the thread.
  • BatchHandler.run() is re-entered repeatedly until all children are done (its process() marks success only when every child is_done). run() must be idempotent — guard against re-creating children (see the added_* bookkeeping in existing batch handlers like chapter_batch.py).

Scheduling model (what to know when debugging)

  • Find-and-claim happens in JobRunner._claim_next() under a module-level EventLock; the actual run_job() executes outside the lock. Fairness: skips users and domains that already have a running claim, then falls back without fairness if nothing matched.
  • _pending selects PENDING (or just-started RUNNING with no progress) jobs whose depends_on is done, ordered by priority then age. The artifact worker sees only JobType.ARTIFACT; general runners see everything else.
  • Cancel = set the claim's Event (in-memory) + mark the job and its descendants CANCELED in DB (ctx.jobs.cancel). reset_stale re-signals claims older than the configured max age.
  • Progress (done/failed/total) rolls up ancestor chains via recursive CTEs (services/jobs/utils.py); a parent auto-completes when done == total.
  • The Scrubber deletes old jobs/tokens/users/activities on its own loop — check it before assuming rows persist forever.

New email notification (only for a new email type)

Subclass MailNotification (services/notifications/_base.py), add a NotificationItem enum member, and register the class in the NOTIFICATIONS dict in services/notifications/__init__.py. Delivery is deduped via job.extra["email_sent"] and sent on a background TaskManager.