Possible status of WorkspaceInfo GetScanStatus status field

[jmainaud_zeenea]

Hello,

We are trying to extract metadata with the Power BI REST Admin API.
The documentation says we should

1. call WorkspaceInfo PostWorkspaceInfo
2. wait until WorkspaceInfo GetScanStatus status is "Succeeded"
3. then call WorkspaceInfo GetScanResult

It seems easy.

My problem is that documentation and any blog I found only speak about the happy path.

Suppose the scan fails for whatever reason, I expect the status to never be "Succeeded" and my process will wait forever.

So I need to deal with other status values, at least to final ones.

But I found the list of the status values nowhere. Examples of API documentation show "Succeeded" and "NotRunning" (I suppose it means "not yet running") status. 

Can anyone list or redirect me to the list of these values? If possible with their description.

Thank you,

[jmainaud_zeenea]

Hello,

Finally doing some tests, we discovered an other value to the status: "Running". We can expect the value to be "Failed" in case of failure but as we are not sure about it. So we decided to wait until the status is not "NotRunning" or "Running", take "Succeeded" as a success and other value to a failure.

[v-shex-msft]

Hi @jmainaud_zeenea,

I think you can try to convert these operations to async requests with a custom timeout duration, they should help improve you to work with these APIs without keeping waiting for the response.

Asynchronous programming in C# | Microsoft Docs

c# - Asynchronously wait for Task<T> to complete with timeout - Stack Overflow

In addition, you can also try to submit an idea for adding timeout property into the scanning API.

Microsoft Power BI ideas
Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

[jmainaud_zeenea]

Hi @v-shex-msft 

Thank you for your reply but it is not related to my question.

I'm asking for the list of values of a specific status field in the response of an API and not about asynchronous tasks in C# that I don't even use.

Regards,

Jérôme

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