Provide a method to do (n) number of batches

[jjeaton]

The use case here is if you wanted to create 100 posts, you don't have existing objects to query, you need some way to say, run this 100 times.

[zachwills]

I don't think we currently support a process for creating something. We would probably want to nail down how that should function, implement it, then implement this. Unless this task is supposed to add that functionality?

[zachwills]

Perhaps the better question would be: is this applicable only in the instance of creating items through Locomotive? If it is relevant in the context of processing existing items we could implement this without adding the create functionality.

[jjeaton]

this shouldn't have anything to do with creating. that was just one example use case. if someone wanted to send 10 emails or log "Hamburger" to the error_log 10 times, then this is what they would use.

[zachwills]

Ah that makes sense! Thanks for the clarification. Right now the plugin pretty much revolves around looping through existing posts. Since this issue introduces a new approach (processing something without querying for data first) I think we should plan the approach first.

[jjeaton]

Yes, that's the purpose of this issue.