Jobs

The jobs endpoint provides a programmatic way of running long running background tasks with Moltin.

An example job would be exporting all orders from your store.

Job object

Attributes

Attribute	Type	Description
id	string	The unique ID for this job
type	string	This represents the type of object being returned. Always job
job_type	string	This represents the type of job. E.g. order_export
link	object	The link object associated with this job
link.href	string	The endpoint which returns a link to the exported data
status	string	Displays the current status for the given job. Types: pending, processing, complete , failed
timestamps	object	Timestamps for this export
timestamps.created_at	string	The creation date of this job
timestamps.updated_at	string	The last updated date of this job

Sample object

{
  "data": {
    "type": "job",
    "id": "4eac8cd8-68f6-4fab-9cb4-eb710e4568f7",
    "job_type": "order_export",
    "link": {
      "href": ""
    },
    "links": {
      "self": "http://api.moltin.com/v2/jobs/4eac8cd8-68f6-4fab-9cb4-eb710e4568f7"
    },
    "status": "pending",
    "timestamps": {
      "created_at": "2018-08-20T11:01:15.419445Z",
      "updated_at": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z"
    }
  }
}