[7.4] [Task manager] Adds ensureScheduling api to allow safer rescheduling of existing tasks (#50232)

x-pack/legacy/plugins/maps/server/maps_telemetry/telemetry_task.js

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ export function scheduleTask(server, taskManager) {
     // function block.
     (async () => {
       try {
-        await taskManager.schedule({
+        await taskManager.ensureScheduled({
           id: TASK_ID,
           taskType: TELEMETRY_TASK_TYPE,
           state: { stats: {}, runs: 0 },

x-pack/legacy/plugins/oss_telemetry/index.d.ts

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ export interface HapiServer {
     };
     task_manager: {
       registerTaskDefinitions: (opts: any) => void;
-      schedule: (opts: any) => Promise<void>;
+      ensureScheduled: (opts: any) => Promise<void>;
       fetch: (
         opts: any
       ) => Promise<{

x-pack/legacy/plugins/oss_telemetry/server/lib/tasks/index.ts

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ export function scheduleTasks(server: HapiServer) {
     // function block.
     (async () => {
       try {
-        await taskManager.schedule({
+        await taskManager.ensureScheduled({
           id: `${PLUGIN_ID}-${VIS_TELEMETRY_TASK}`,
           taskType: VIS_TELEMETRY_TASK,
           state: { stats: {}, runs: 0 },

x-pack/legacy/plugins/oss_telemetry/test_utils/index.ts

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ export const getMockKbnServer = (
     xpack_main: {},
     task_manager: {
       registerTaskDefinitions: (opts: any) => undefined,
-      schedule: (opts: any) => Promise.resolve(),
+      ensureScheduled: (opts: any) => Promise.resolve(),
       fetch: mockTaskFetch,
     },
   },

x-pack/legacy/plugins/task_manager/README.md

@@ -214,6 +214,9 @@ The data stored for a task instance looks something like this:
 
 The task manager mixin exposes a taskManager object on the Kibana server which plugins can use to manage scheduled tasks. Each method takes an optional `scope` argument and ensures that only tasks with the specified scope(s) will be affected.
 
+### schedule
+Using `schedule` you can instruct TaskManger to schedule an instance of a TaskType at some point in the future.
+
 ```js
 const taskManager = server.plugins.task_manager;
 // Schedules a task. All properties are as documented in the previous
@@ -248,6 +251,14 @@ const results = await manager.find({ scope: 'my-fanci-app', searchAfter: ['ids']
 }
 ```
 
+### ensureScheduling
+When using the `schedule` api to schedule a Task you can provide a hard coded `id` on the Task. This tells TaskManager to use this `id` to identify the Task Instance rather than generate an `id` on its own.
+The danger is that in such a situation, a Task with that same `id` might already have been scheduled at some earlier point, and this would result in an error. In some cases, this is the expected behavior, but often you only care about ensuring the task has been _scheduled_ and don't need it to be scheduled a fresh.
+
+To achieve this you should use the `ensureScheduling` api which has the exact same behavior as `schedule`, except it allows the scheduling of a Task with an `id` that's already in assigned to another Task and it will assume that the existing Task is the one you wished to `schedule`, treating this as a successful operation.
+
+### more options
+
 More custom access to the tasks can be done directly via Elasticsearch, though that won't be officially supported, as we can change the document structure at any time.
 
 ## Middleware

x-pack/legacy/plugins/task_manager/plugin.test.ts

@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ describe('Task Manager Plugin', () => {
       expect(setupResult).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
         Object {
           "addMiddleware": [Function],
+          "ensureScheduled": [Function],
           "fetch": [Function],
           "registerTaskDefinitions": [Function],
           "remove": [Function],

x-pack/legacy/plugins/task_manager/plugin.ts

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ export interface PluginSetupContract {
   fetch: TaskManager['fetch'];
   remove: TaskManager['remove'];
   schedule: TaskManager['schedule'];
+  ensureScheduled: TaskManager['ensureScheduled'];
   addMiddleware: TaskManager['addMiddleware'];
   registerTaskDefinitions: TaskManager['registerTaskDefinitions'];
 }
@@ -59,6 +60,7 @@ export class Plugin {
       fetch: (...args) => taskManager.fetch(...args),
       remove: (...args) => taskManager.remove(...args),
       schedule: (...args) => taskManager.schedule(...args),
+      ensureScheduled: (...args) => taskManager.ensureScheduled(...args),
       addMiddleware: (...args) => taskManager.addMiddleware(...args),
       registerTaskDefinitions: (...args) => taskManager.registerTaskDefinitions(...args),
     };

x-pack/legacy/plugins/task_manager/task.ts

@@ -10,6 +10,20 @@ import Joi from 'joi';
  * Type definitions and validations for tasks.
  */
 
+/**
+ * Require
+ * @desc Create a Subtype of type T `T` such that the property under key `P` becomes required
+ * @example
+ *    type TaskInstance = {
+ *      id?: string;
+ *      name: string;
+ *    };
+ *
+ *    // This type is now defined as { id: string; name: string; }
+ *    type TaskInstanceWithId = Require<TaskInstance, 'id'>;
+ */
+type Require<T extends object, P extends keyof T> = Omit<T, P> & Required<Pick<T, P>>;
+
 /**
  * A loosely typed definition of the elasticjs wrapper. It's beyond the scope
  * of this work to try to make a comprehensive type definition of this.
@@ -227,6 +241,11 @@ export interface TaskInstance {
   scope?: string[];
 }
 
+/**
+ * A task instance that has an id.
+ */
+export type TaskInstanceWithId = Require<TaskInstance, 'id'>;
+
 /**
  * A task instance that has an id and is ready for storage.
  */

x-pack/legacy/plugins/task_manager/task_manager.mock.ts

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ const createTaskManagerMock = () => {
   const mocked: jest.Mocked<TaskManager> = {
     registerTaskDefinitions: jest.fn(),
     addMiddleware: jest.fn(),
+    ensureScheduled: jest.fn(),
     schedule: jest.fn(),
     fetch: jest.fn(),
     remove: jest.fn(),

x-pack/legacy/plugins/task_manager/task_manager.test.ts

@@ -95,6 +95,85 @@ describe('TaskManager', () => {
     expect(savedObjectsClient.create).toHaveBeenCalled();
   });
 
+  test('allows scheduling existing tasks that may have already been scheduled', async () => {
+    const client = new TaskManager(taskManagerOpts);
+    client.registerTaskDefinitions({
+      foo: {
+        type: 'foo',
+        title: 'Foo',
+        createTaskRunner: jest.fn(),
+      },
+    });
+    savedObjectsClient.create.mockRejectedValueOnce({
+      statusCode: 409,
+    });
+
+    client.start();
+
+    const result = await client.ensureScheduled({
+      id: 'my-foo-id',
+      taskType: 'foo',
+      params: {},
+      state: {},
+    });
+
+    expect(result.id).toEqual('my-foo-id');
+  });
+
+  test('doesnt ignore failure to scheduling existing tasks for reasons other than already being scheduled', async () => {
+    const client = new TaskManager(taskManagerOpts);
+    client.registerTaskDefinitions({
+      foo: {
+        type: 'foo',
+        title: 'Foo',
+        createTaskRunner: jest.fn(),
+      },
+    });
+    savedObjectsClient.create.mockRejectedValueOnce({
+      statusCode: 500,
+    });
+
+    client.start();
+
+    return expect(
+      client.ensureScheduled({
+        id: 'my-foo-id',
+        taskType: 'foo',
+        params: {},
+        state: {},
+      })
+    ).rejects.toMatchObject({
+      statusCode: 500,
+    });
+  });
+
+  test('doesnt allow naively rescheduling existing tasks that have already been scheduled', async () => {
+    const client = new TaskManager(taskManagerOpts);
+    client.registerTaskDefinitions({
+      foo: {
+        type: 'foo',
+        title: 'Foo',
+        createTaskRunner: jest.fn(),
+      },
+    });
+    savedObjectsClient.create.mockRejectedValueOnce({
+      statusCode: 409,
+    });
+
+    client.start();
+
+    return expect(
+      client.schedule({
+        id: 'my-foo-id',
+        taskType: 'foo',
+        params: {},
+        state: {},
+      })
+    ).rejects.toMatchObject({
+      statusCode: 409,
+    });
+  });
+
   test('allows and queues removing tasks before starting', async () => {
     const client = new TaskManager(taskManagerOpts);
     savedObjectsClient.delete.mockResolvedValueOnce({});

x-pack/legacy/plugins/task_manager/task_manager.ts

@@ -9,13 +9,22 @@ import { Logger } from './types';
 import { fillPool } from './lib/fill_pool';
 import { addMiddlewareToChain, BeforeSaveMiddlewareParams, Middleware } from './lib/middleware';
 import { sanitizeTaskDefinitions } from './lib/sanitize_task_definitions';
-import { ConcreteTaskInstance, RunContext, TaskInstance } from './task';
-import { SanitizedTaskDefinition, TaskDefinition, TaskDictionary } from './task';
+import {
+  SanitizedTaskDefinition,
+  TaskDefinition,
+  TaskDictionary,
+  ConcreteTaskInstance,
+  RunContext,
+  TaskInstanceWithId,
+  TaskInstance,
+} from './task';
 import { TaskPoller } from './task_poller';
 import { TaskPool } from './task_pool';
 import { TaskManagerRunner } from './task_runner';
 import { FetchOpts, FetchResult, TaskStore } from './task_store';
 
+const VERSION_CONFLICT_STATUS = 409;
+
 export interface TaskManagerOpts {
   logger: Logger;
   config: any;
@@ -192,6 +201,26 @@ export class TaskManager {
     return result;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Schedules a task with an Id
+   *
+   * @param task - The task being scheduled.
+   * @returns {Promise<TaskInstanceWithId>}
+   */
+  public async ensureScheduled(
+    taskInstance: TaskInstanceWithId,
+    options?: any
+  ): Promise<TaskInstanceWithId> {
+    try {
+      return await this.schedule(taskInstance, options);
+    } catch (err) {
+      if (err.statusCode === VERSION_CONFLICT_STATUS) {
+        return taskInstance;
+      }
+      throw err;
+    }
+  }
+
   /**
    * Fetches a paginatable list of scheduled tasks.
    *

x-pack/test/plugin_api_integration/plugins/task_manager/init_routes.js

@@ -32,21 +32,34 @@ export function initRoutes(server) {
     config: {
       validate: {
         payload: Joi.object({
-          taskType: Joi.string().required(),
-          interval: Joi.string().optional(),
-          params: Joi.object().required(),
-          state: Joi.object().optional(),
-          id: Joi.string().optional(),
+          task: Joi.object({
+            taskType: Joi.string().required(),
+            interval: Joi.string().optional(),
+            params: Joi.object().required(),
+            state: Joi.object().optional(),
+            id: Joi.string().optional()
+          }),
+          ensureScheduled: Joi.boolean()
+            .default(false)
+            .optional(),
         }),
       },
     },
     async handler(request) {
       try {
-        const task = await taskManager.schedule({
-          ...request.payload,
+        const { ensureScheduled = false, task: taskFields } = request.payload;
+        const task = {
+          ...taskFields,
           scope: [scope],
-        }, { request });
-        return task;
+        };
+
+        const taskResult = await (
+          ensureScheduled
+            ? taskManager.ensureScheduled(task, { request })
+            : taskManager.schedule(task, { request })
+        );
+
+        return taskResult;
       } catch (err) {
         return err;
       }

x-pack/test/plugin_api_integration/test_suites/task_manager/task_manager_integration.js

@@ -49,7 +49,15 @@ export default function ({ getService }) {
     function scheduleTask(task) {
       return supertest.post('/api/sample_tasks')
         .set('kbn-xsrf', 'xxx')
-        .send(task)
+        .send({ task })
+        .expect(200)
+        .then((response) => response.body);
+    }
+
+    function scheduleTaskIfNotExists(task) {
+      return supertest.post('/api/sample_tasks')
+        .set('kbn-xsrf', 'xxx')
+        .send({ task, ensureScheduled: true })
         .expect(200)
         .then((response) => response.body);
     }
@@ -105,6 +113,24 @@ export default function ({ getService }) {
       expect(result.id).to.be('test-task-for-sample-task-plugin-to-test-task-manager');
     });
 
+    it('should allow a task with a given ID to be scheduled multiple times', async () => {
+      const result = await scheduleTaskIfNotExists({
+        id: 'test-task-to-reschedule-in-task-manager',
+        taskType: 'sampleTask',
+        params: { },
+      });
+
+      expect(result.id).to.be('test-task-to-reschedule-in-task-manager');
+
+      const rescheduleResult = await scheduleTaskIfNotExists({
+        id: 'test-task-to-reschedule-in-task-manager',
+        taskType: 'sampleTask',
+        params: { },
+      });
+
+      expect(rescheduleResult.id).to.be('test-task-to-reschedule-in-task-manager');
+    });
+
     it('should reschedule if task errors', async () => {
       const task = await scheduleTask({
         taskType: 'sampleTask',