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Workers¶

This page list all the currently available workers on the cozy-stack. It describes their input arguments object. See the jobs document to know more about the API context in which you can see how to use these arguments.

log worker¶

The log worker will just print in the log file the job sent to it. It can useful for debugging for example.

thumbnail worker¶

The thumbnail worker is used internally by the stack to generate thumbnails from the image files of a cozy instance.

konnector worker¶

The konnector worker is used to execute JS code that collects files and data from external providers, and put them in the Cozy. Its execution is detailed on the Konnector Worker specs.

service worker¶

The service worker is used to process background jobs, generally to compute non-realtime user data.

push worker¶

The push worker can be used to send push-notifications to a user’s device. The options are:

client_id: the ID of the oauth client to push a notification to.
title: the title of the notification
message: the content of the notification
data: key-value string map for additional metadata (optional)
priority: the notification priority: high or normal (optional)
topic: the topic identifier of the notification (optional)
sound: a sound associated with the notification (optional)

Example¶

{
    "client_id": "abcdef123123123",
    "title": "My Notification",
    "message": "My notification content.",
    "priority": "high"
}

Permissions¶

To use this worker from a client-side application, you will need to ask the permission. It is done by adding this to the manifest:

{
    "permissions": {
        "push-notification": {
            "description": "Required to send notifications",
            "type": "io.cozy.jobs",
            "verbs": ["POST"],
            "selector": "worker",
            "values": ["push"]
        }
    }
}

unzip worker¶

The unzip worker can take a zip archive from the VFS, and will unzip the files inside it to a directory of the VFS. The options are:

zip: the ID of the zip file
destination: the ID of the directory where the files will be unzipped.

Example¶

{
    "zip": "8737b5d6-51b6-11e7-9194-bf5b64b3bc9e",
    "destination": "88750a84-51b6-11e7-ba90-4f0b1cb62b7b"
}

Permissions¶

To use this worker from a client-side application, you will need to ask the permission. It is done by adding this to the manifest:

{
    "permissions": {
        "unzip-to-a-directory": {
            "description": "Required to unzip a file inside the cozy",
            "type": "io.cozy.jobs",
            "verbs": ["POST"],
            "selector": "worker",
            "values": ["unzip"]
        }
    }
}

zip worker¶

The zip worker does pretty much the opposite of the unzip worker: it creates a zip archive from files in the VFS. The options are:

files: a map with the the files to zip (their path in the zip as key, their VFS identifier as value)
dir_id: the directory identifier where the zip archive will be put
filename: the name of the zip archive.

Example¶

{
    "files": {
        "selection/one.pdf": "36abc4c0-90fe-11e9-b05b-1fa43ca781ef",
        "selection/two.pdf": "36eb54c8-90fe-11e9-aeca-03ddc3acf91c",
        "selection/three.pdf": "37284586-90fe-11e9-be6d-179f72076e43",
        "selection/four.pdf": "37655462-90fe-11e9-9059-8739e3746720",
        "selection/five.pdf": "379fedfc-90fe-11e9-849f-0bbe172eba5f"
    },
    "dir_id": "3657ce9c-90fe-11e9-b40b-33baf841bcb8",
    "filename": "selection.zip"
}

Permissions¶

To use this worker from a client-side application, you will need to ask the permission. It is done by adding this to the manifest:

{
    "permissions": {
        "create-a-zip-archive": {
            "description": "Required to create a zip archive inside the cozy",
            "type": "io.cozy.jobs",
            "verbs": ["POST"],
            "selector": "worker",
            "values": ["zip"]
        }
    }
}

sendmail worker¶

The sendmail worker can be used to send mail from the stack. It implies that the stack has properly configured an access to an SMTP server. You can see an example of configuration in the cozy.example.yaml file at the root of this repository.

sendmail options fields are the following:

mode: string specifying the mode of the send:
- noreply to send a notification mail to the user
- from to send a mail from the user
to: list of object {name, email} representing the addresses of the recipients. (should not be used in noreply mode)
subject: string specifying the subject of the mail
parts: list of part objects {type, body} listing representing the content parts of the
- type string of the content type: either text/html or text/plain
- body string of the actual body content of the part
attachments: list of objects {filename, content} that represent the files attached to the email

Examples¶

// from mode sending mail from the user to a list of recipients
{
    "mode": "from",
    "to": [
        {"name": "John Doe 1", "email":"john1@doe"},
        {"name": "John Doe 2", "email":"john2@doe"}
    ],
    "subject": "Hey !",
    "parts": [
        {"type":"text/html", "body": "<h1>Hey !</h1>"},
        {"type":"text/plain", "body": "Hey !"}
    ]
}

// noreply mode, sending a notification mail to the user
{
    "mode": "noreply",
    "subject": "You've got a new file !",
    "parts": [
        {"type":"text/html", "body": "<h1>Hey !</h1>"},
        {"type":"text/plain", "body": "Hey !"}
    ]
}

Permissions¶

To use this worker from a client-side application, you will need to ask the permission. It is done by adding this to the manifest:

{
    "permissions": {
        "mail-from-the-user": {
            "description": "Required to send mails from the user to his/her friends",
            "type": "io.cozy.jobs",
            "verbs": ["POST"],
            "selector": "worker",
            "values": ["sendmail"]
        }
    }
}

export¶

The export worker can be used to generate allow the export of all data contained in the cozy. At the end of the export, a mail is sent to the user containing a link to access to its data.

The progress of the export process can be followed with realtime events on the doctype io.cozy.exports.

Its options are:

parts_size: the size in bytes of the sizes index splitting done for multi-part download of files data
max_age: the maximum age duration of the archive before it expires
with_doctypes: list of string for a whitelist of doctypes to exports (exports all doctypes if empty)
without_files: boolean to avoid exporting the index (preventing download file data)

Example¶

{
    "parts_size": 52428800,
    "max_age": 60000000000, // 1 minute
    "with_doctypes": ["io.cozy.accounts"], // empty or null means all doctypes
    "without_files": false
}

Permissions¶

To use this worker from a client-side application, you will need to ask the permission. It is done by adding this to the manifest:

{
    "permissions": {
        "mail-from-the-user": {
            "description": "Required to create a export of the user's data",
            "type": "io.cozy.jobs",
            "verbs": ["POST"],
            "selector": "worker",
            "values": ["export"]
        }
    }
}

trash-files worker¶

This worker is used only by the stack: when the user asks to clean the trash, the stack will delete the files from CouchDB and put a job for this worker. The deletion of files in Swift is slow, and can be done via this worker asynchronously. The behavior is not the same for all the VFS:

afero: all the work is done during the HTTP request, no job is pushed
Swift layout v1: all the work is done during the HTTP request, no job is pushed
Swift layout v2: the files are deleted in CouchDB during the HTTP request, and they are deleted in Swift via the job
Swift layout v3: the files are deleted in CouchDB during the HTTP request, the file versions are deleted in CouchDB via the job, and the files and their versions are deleted in Swift via the job.

The stack have 3 workers to power the sharings (internal usage only):

share-track, to update the io.cozy.shared database
share-replicate, to start a replicator for most documents
share-upload, to upload files

The message is composed of 3 fields: the sharing ID, the rule index, and the doctype. The event is similar to a realtime event: a verb, a document, and optionaly the old version of this document.

The message is composed of a sharing ID and a count of the number of errors (i.e. the number of times this job was retried).

notes-save¶

This is another worker for the interal usage of the stack. It allows to write to the VFS a note in an asynchronous way. Writing to the VFS after each tiny change would kill the performance for realtime collaboration, so the stack writes the note to a cache, and has a trigger with debounce to persist the note to the VFS later.

migrations¶

The migrations worker can be used to migrate a cozy instance. Currently, it has a single option, type, with two supported values: to-swift-v3: migrate a cozy instance that has files in swift from a V1 or V2 layout to a V3 layout accounts-to-organization: create ciphers from accounts, re-encrypted with the organization key * notes-mime-type: update the notes mime-type to text/vnd.cozy.note+markdown to allow them to be listed in the cozy-notes application.

Example¶

It can be launched from command-line with:

$ cozy-stack jobs run migrations --domain example.mycozy.cloud --json '{"type": "to-swift-v3"}'

Deprecated workers¶

updates¶

The updates worker was used for updating applications when there were no auto-update mechanism.

Workers¶

log worker¶

thumbnail worker¶

konnector worker¶

service worker¶

push worker¶

Example¶

Permissions¶

unzip worker¶

Example¶

Permissions¶

zip worker¶

Example¶

Permissions¶

sendmail worker¶

Examples¶

Permissions¶

export¶

Example¶

Permissions¶

trash-files worker¶

share workers¶

Share-track¶

Share-replicate and share-upload¶

notes-save¶

migrations¶

Example¶

Deprecated workers¶

updates¶