REST API - Run Job/Workspace with Notification by FMEServerEmailGenerator

david_r wrote:

I know it's not exactly what you're asking, but have you considered using the Emailer transformer? Much easier to use, in my opinion.

I'm open for alternatives. Is it possible to configure Emailer to let fme-server do the job? Because this is what I would like to have. This is just a test configuration where I want to invoke my workbench and somehow give the requestor a simple message as feedback. I thought email would be easiest way because there are these build in solutions like FMEServerEmailGenerator or FMEServerNotifier but maybe I was wrong.

 

 

david_r wrote:

If you want to use the FMEServerEmailGenerator, you need to send the output to the FMEServerNotifier, triggering your outgoing email topic with the content set to the output from the FMEServerEmailGenerator.

 

This works if I run my workbench locally but I'm publishing this as a service to fme-server. So far I had the FMEServerEmailGenerator set up as described in the main message according to the documentation and was able to start the process on the server with email notification.

jscope wrote:

 

This works if I run my workbench locally but I'm publishing this as a service to fme-server. So far I had the FMEServerEmailGenerator set up as described in the main message according to the documentation and was able to start the process on the server with email notification.

Not sure I understand, that pattern should work on FME Server as well. In fact, it was the way I always did it before the Emailer was introduced.

david_r wrote:

Not sure I understand, that pattern should work on FME Server as well. In fact, it was the way I always did it before the Emailer was introduced.

 

Okay, just to be sure I understood you correctly :) because I`m not a fme expert.

 

 

I have some transformer providing a text attribute. I give it as input to my FMEServerEmailGenerator which has following settings:

 

 

To: target email from published parameter

 

CC: some other email

 

Subject: some text

 

Content: my template with another published parameter build in

 

 

I send the output of FMEServerEmailGenerator to FMEServerNotifier with following parameters:

 

 

connection: connection to our fme-server pre-configured for us

 

topic: my topic

 

content: text_line_data attribute created by FMEServerEmailGenerator

 

 

Now when I publish my workspace I have to configure Job Submitter service and I don't have a writer anymore what are the settings in Edit... after Job Submitter.

 

 

I only receive emails if I set a topic here under "post topics on success" but in your setup FMEServerNotifier should do that right?

jscope wrote:

 

Okay, just to be sure I understood you correctly :) because I`m not a fme expert.

 

 

I have some transformer providing a text attribute. I give it as input to my FMEServerEmailGenerator which has following settings:

 

 

To: target email from published parameter

 

CC: some other email

 

Subject: some text

 

Content: my template with another published parameter build in

 

 

I send the output of FMEServerEmailGenerator to FMEServerNotifier with following parameters:

 

 

connection: connection to our fme-server pre-configured for us

 

topic: my topic

 

content: text_line_data attribute created by FMEServerEmailGenerator

 

 

Now when I publish my workspace I have to configure Job Submitter service and I don't have a writer anymore what are the settings in Edit... after Job Submitter.

 

 

I only receive emails if I set a topic here under "post topics on success" but in your setup FMEServerNotifier should do that right?

If I'm understanding you correctly, you've found one of the "warts" of the notification system (in my opinion), and you're certainly not the first to stumble on this.

 

 

In short: the jobsubmitter service behaves fundamentally different to the REST API.

 

 

Basically, when you publish the workspace and you define the Job Submitter settings in the publication wizard, these settings are only valid for the so-called jobsubmitter service, and not the REST interface. For the REST interface the topics configured for the jobsubmitter are not used and you have to specify them on each job submission via the NMDirectives (as you've seen). Also, you cannot specify that you want a particular writer as topic contents, as you can for the jobsubmitter service.

 

 

Which is why I prefer the Emailer if the email is not used for critical failure notifications: it's consistent and works the same way regardless of where and when :-)

jscope wrote:

 

Okay, just to be sure I understood you correctly :) because I`m not a fme expert.

 

 

I have some transformer providing a text attribute. I give it as input to my FMEServerEmailGenerator which has following settings:

 

 

To: target email from published parameter

 

CC: some other email

 

Subject: some text

 

Content: my template with another published parameter build in

 

 

I send the output of FMEServerEmailGenerator to FMEServerNotifier with following parameters:

 

 

connection: connection to our fme-server pre-configured for us

 

topic: my topic

 

content: text_line_data attribute created by FMEServerEmailGenerator

 

 

Now when I publish my workspace I have to configure Job Submitter service and I don't have a writer anymore what are the settings in Edit... after Job Submitter.

 

 

I only receive emails if I set a topic here under "post topics on success" but in your setup FMEServerNotifier should do that right?

To answer your specific question: If you use the FMEServerEmailGenerator + FMEServerNotifier and only invoke the workspace using the REST API, then you can simply ignore the advanced parameters in the publishing wizard, they won't be used anyway.