Mabl Job Lock API
The JobLock API from Mabl — 2 operation(s) for joblock.
The JobLock API from Mabl — 2 operation(s) for joblock.
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openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: mabl Job Lock API
description: APIs for interacting with mabl services
version: 0.599.3.1792436330
x-readme-id: 62c896636916ce01d2ff4f5a
servers:
- url: /
security:
- basicAuth: []
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: JobLock
paths:
/jobLocks/{lock_name}:
put:
tags:
- JobLock
summary: Renew a named job lock and record progress
description: Renew a held lock, optionally replacing its progress. The server sets the heartbeat time. Restricted to API keys with global write permission on the lock namespace's scope target.
operationId: heartbeatNamedJobLock
parameters:
- name: lock_name
in: path
description: Registered namespace, a dot, then the job's own id, e.g. azure-boards-sync.<integration id>
required: true
style: simple
explode: false
schema:
maxLength: 128
minLength: 3
pattern: ^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+\.[A-Za-z0-9._-]+$
type: string
requestBody:
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/JobLockUpdate'
required: true
responses:
'200':
description: Lock renewed
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/JobLockHeartbeatResult'
'400':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse400'
'401':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse401'
'403':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse403'
'404':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse404'
'409':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse409'
default:
$ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse'
x-mabl-action: Edit::AsyncJob
post:
tags:
- JobLock
summary: Acquire a named job lock
description: Acquire a named lock for a background job. A lock left without a heartbeat past its namespace's steal timeout may be taken over. The previous holder's progress is returned so the job can resume. Restricted to API keys with global write permission on the lock namespace's scope target.
operationId: acquireNamedJobLock
parameters:
- name: lock_name
in: path
description: Registered namespace, a dot, then the job's own id, e.g. azure-boards-sync.<integration id>
required: true
style: simple
explode: false
schema:
maxLength: 128
minLength: 3
pattern: ^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+\.[A-Za-z0-9._-]+$
type: string
responses:
'200':
description: Lock acquired
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/HeldJobLock'
'400':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse400'
'401':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse401'
'403':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse403'
'404':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse404'
'409':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse409'
default:
$ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse'
x-mabl-action: Edit::AsyncJob
/jobLocks/{lock_name}/release:
post:
tags:
- JobLock
summary: Release a named job lock
description: Release a held lock, optionally recording final progress in the same write. Progress is kept for the next holder. Releasing with a key that no longer holds the lock changes nothing. Restricted to API keys with global write permission on the lock namespace's scope target.
operationId: releaseNamedJobLock
parameters:
- name: lock_name
in: path
description: Registered namespace, a dot, then the job's own id, e.g. azure-boards-sync.<integration id>
required: true
style: simple
explode: false
schema:
maxLength: 128
minLength: 3
pattern: ^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+\.[A-Za-z0-9._-]+$
type: string
requestBody:
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/JobLockUpdate'
required: true
responses:
'204':
description: Lock released, or not held with this key
'400':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse400'
'401':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse401'
'403':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse403'
'404':
$ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse404'
default:
$ref: '#/components/responses/ErrorResponse'
x-mabl-action: Edit::AsyncJob
components:
responses:
ErrorResponse401:
description: User not authenticated
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponseGeneric'
ErrorResponse400:
description: Invalid or missing parameter
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponseGeneric'
ErrorResponse404:
description: Entity not found
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponseGeneric'
ErrorResponse403:
description: User not authorized
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponseGeneric'
ErrorResponse409:
description: Conflicts with the current state of the resource
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponseGeneric'
ErrorResponse:
description: Unknown error
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponseGeneric'
schemas:
GuardrailApprovalKind:
type: string
description: Who decides a guardrail approval. SELF is decided by the person the agent acts for; WORKSPACE, for an agent acting for an API key, by a workspace owner or editor.
enum:
- SELF
- WORKSPACE
GuardrailRefusal:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: string
description: The id of the guardrail policy that decided the refusal.
reason:
type: string
description: Why the policy refuses the request, written for the person the agent acts for.
decision_id:
type: string
description: The id of this decision in the guardrail decision log.
action:
type: string
description: The action the request was evaluated as, written Verb::Resource (for example Delete::Test), as declared by the operation's x-mabl-action extension.
policy_source:
type: string
description: 'Who set the deciding policy: workspace for a rule the workspace''s owners wrote, account for a rule set for the workspace''s account, mabl_agent_type for the agent type''s ceiling, and mabl_default for mabl''s own defaults.'
approval:
description: The approval for this request; present when error_code is approval_required and the approval could be recorded. Without it the request cannot be approved.
allOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/GuardrailApprovalRef'
description: The guardrail policy that refused an agent request.
GuardrailApprovalState:
type: string
description: Where a guardrail approval stands. PENDING awaits a decision and expires undecided after 24 hours; APPROVED lets the agent repeat the request, as often as it does, for 20 minutes; DENIED refuses the same request for 20 minutes after the decision, after which asking again opens a new approval; CANCELLED means a person withdrew it while pending or revoked it while approved. EXPIRED and CANCELLED are final.
enum:
- PENDING
- APPROVED
- DENIED
- EXPIRED
- CANCELLED
JobLockHeartbeatResult:
required:
- last_updated
- lock_name
type: object
properties:
lock_name:
type: string
description: Name of the lock
last_updated:
type: integer
description: Epoch milliseconds of this heartbeat, set by the server
format: int64
description: A renewed lock
HeldJobLock:
required:
- acquired_time
- last_updated
- lock_key
- lock_name
type: object
properties:
lock_name:
type: string
description: Name of the lock
lock_key:
type: string
description: Key that renews or releases the lock while it is held
x-sensitive: true
acquired_time:
type: integer
description: Epoch milliseconds when the lock was acquired
format: int64
last_updated:
type: integer
description: Epoch milliseconds of the lock's last write, set by the server
format: int64
progress:
type: string
description: Opaque progress last recorded on the lock, kept across holders
description: A named job lock held by the caller
GuardrailApprovalRef:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: string
description: The approval's id.
state:
description: Where the approval stands.
allOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/GuardrailApprovalState'
kind:
description: Who decides the approval.
allOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/GuardrailApprovalKind'
request_expires_time:
type: integer
description: When the approval expires if nobody decides it, in epoch milliseconds.
format: int64
url:
type: string
description: The mabl app page where a person reviews the approval.
description: 'An approval a guardrail policy asks for. While it is PENDING, stop: give the person the url, tell them the request is waiting for approval, and do not repeat the request or poll in a loop. Once a person tells you it is APPROVED, repeat the identical request with the header X-Mabl-Approval set to id. DENIED means a person said no, so do not work around it.'
ErrorResponseGeneric:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: string
x-mabl-scope: public
code:
maximum: 599
minimum: 100
type: integer
format: int32
x-mabl-scope: public
message:
type: string
x-mabl-scope: public
error_code:
type: string
description: Machine-readable reason for the error, present only when the API names one. Values are guardrail_blocked (a guardrail policy refused an agent request), approval_required (a guardrail policy requires a person to approve the request first).
guardrail:
description: The guardrail policy that refused the request; present only when error_code is guardrail_blocked or approval_required.
allOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/GuardrailRefusal'
JobLockUpdate:
required:
- lock_key
type: object
properties:
lock_key:
maxLength: 64
minLength: 1
type: string
description: Key returned when the lock was acquired
x-sensitive: true
progress:
maxLength: 8192
type: string
description: Opaque progress to store, at most 8192 bytes as UTF-8. Omit to keep the stored progress.
description: Renews or releases a held lock
securitySchemes:
basicAuth:
type: http
scheme: basic
bearerAuth:
type: apiKey
name: Authorization
in: header