Senario: User clicks deploy button. In the DeployController we create a background job that will run some deploy code. The controller finishes and renders the show page to the user before this job has finished. Once the background job is finished, the UI on the show page updates notifiying the user that their deploy has finished.
My Idea: In the controller use Task.start so the request will move past the controller and into the render logic of the controller. Then once the deploy has finished there is something that will broadcast something out to a deploy channel.
Questions: Does this seem like the right approach. Is Task.start correct to use here?
Example Code
defmodule MyApp.DeployController do
def deploy(conn, _params) do
Task.start fn ->
case do_some_deploy_logic do
{:ok, msg} -> broadcast_deploy_success
{:error, msg} -> broadcast_deploy_failure
end
end)
conn
|> put_flash(:info, "Your deployment has started!")
|> render("show.html")
end
