refactor: simplify workspace start status management #222
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Current approach with a secondary poll loop that handles the start action of a workspace is overengineered. Basically the problem is the CLI takes too long before moving the workspace into the queued/starting state, during which the user doesn't have any feedback. To address the issue we: - stopped the main poll loop from updating the environment - moved the environment in the queued state immediately after the start button was pushed. - started a poll loop that moved the workspace from queued state to starting space only after that state became available in the backend. The intermediary stopped state is skipped by the secondary poll loop. @asher pointed out that a better approach can be implemented. We already store the status, and workspace and the agent in the environment. When the start comes in: 1. We directly update the env. status to "queued" 2. We only change the environment status if there is difference in the existing workspace&agent status vs the status from the main poll loop 3. no secondary poll loop is needed.
And improved debug messages
Start action was still visible because the action list was not yet refreshed.
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I think checking the status is subtly different from checking if there is a new build, because imagine this scenario:
- Latest build is
failed. - The poll runs, so we currently have
failedstored as the status. - User starts workspace, we set to
queued. - Build fails again (a brand new build, but it is also failing).
- Poll runs again, checks
failedagainst the last status, which is alsofailed, so it leaves the status asqueued, even though the workspace is actually failed currently, so really we do want to update the state tofailed.
So we could miss updates from one build to another build when both builds end up with the same status.
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Current approach with a secondary poll loop that handles the start action of a workspace is overengineered. Basically the problem is the CLI takes too long before moving the workspace into the queued/starting state, during which the user doesn't have any feedback. To address the issue we:
@asher pointed out that a better approach can be implemented. We already store the status, and workspace and the agent in the environment. When the start comes in: