A few resuming from backend comment adjustments

Change-Id: I40d8c1926b4bef337eaaf0adc6cae66d023dc200

taskflow/examples/resume_from_backend.out.txt

@@ -1,21 +1,26 @@
-
-At the beginning, there is no state:
-Flow state: None
-
-Running:
+-----------------------------------
+At the beginning, there is no state
+-----------------------------------
+Flow 'resume from backend example' state: None
+-------
+Running
+-------
 executing first==1.0
-
-After running:
-Flow state: SUSPENDED
-boom==1.0: SUCCESS, result=None
-first==1.0: SUCCESS, result=ok
-second==1.0: PENDING, result=None
-
-Resuming and running again:
+-------------
+After running
+-------------
+Flow 'resume from backend example' state: SUSPENDED
+ boom==1.0: SUCCESS, result=None
+ first==1.0: SUCCESS, result=ok
+ second==1.0: PENDING, result=None
+--------------------------
+Resuming and running again
+--------------------------
 executing second==1.0
-
-At the end:
-Flow state: SUCCESS
-boom==1.0: SUCCESS, result=None
-first==1.0: SUCCESS, result=ok
-second==1.0: SUCCESS, result=ok
+----------
+At the end
+----------
+Flow 'resume from backend example' state: SUCCESS
+ boom==1.0: SUCCESS, result=None
+ first==1.0: SUCCESS, result=ok
+ second==1.0: SUCCESS, result=ok

taskflow/examples/resume_from_backend.py

@@ -33,17 +33,36 @@ from taskflow.persistence import backends
 from taskflow import task
 from taskflow.utils import persistence_utils as p_utils
 
+# INTRO: In this example linear_flow is used to group three tasks, one which
+# will suspend the future work the engine may do. This suspend engine is then
+# discarded and the workflow is reloaded from the persisted data and then the
+# workflow is resumed from where it was suspended. This allows you to see how
+# to start an engine, have a task stop the engine from doing future work (if
+# a multi-threaded engine is being used, then the currently active work is not
+# preempted) and then resume the work later.
 
 ### UTILITY FUNCTIONS #########################################
 
 
+def print_wrapped(text):
+    print("-" * (len(text)))
+    print(text)
+    print("-" * (len(text)))
+
+
 def print_task_states(flowdetail, msg):
-    print(msg)
-    print('Flow state: %s' % flowdetail.state)
+    print_wrapped(msg)
+    # NOTE(harlowja): for this example, just avoid printing uuids so that
+    # we can correctly compare this output with the expected output, which
+    # is used by our example test verification (uuids would be different each
+    # time if we did not do this).
+    print("Flow '%s' state: %s" % (flowdetail.name, flowdetail.state))
+    # Sort by these so that our test validation doesn't get confused by the
+    # order in which the items in the flow detail can be in.
     items = sorted((td.name, td.version, td.state, td.results)
                    for td in flowdetail)
     for item in items:
-        print("%s==%s: %s, result=%s" % item)
+        print(" %s==%s: %s, result=%s" % item)
 
 
 def get_backend():
@@ -98,20 +117,28 @@ flowdetail = p_utils.create_flow_detail(flow, logbook, backend)
 engine = taskflow.engines.load(flow, flow_detail=flowdetail,
                                backend=backend)
 
-print_task_states(flowdetail, "\nAt the beginning, there is no state:")
-print("\nRunning:")
+print_task_states(flowdetail, "At the beginning, there is no state")
+print_wrapped("Running")
 engine.run()
-print_task_states(flowdetail, "\nAfter running:")
+print_task_states(flowdetail, "After running")
 
 
 ### RE-CREATE, RESUME, RUN ####################################
 
-print("\nResuming and running again:")
-# reload flowdetail from backend
+print_wrapped("Resuming and running again")
+
+# NOTE(harlowja): reload the flow detail from backend, this will allow us to
+# resume the flow from its suspended state, but first we need to search for
+# the right flow details in the correct logbook where things are stored.
+#
+# We could avoid re-loading the engine and just do engine.run() again, but this
+# example shows how another process may unsuspend a given flow and start it
+# again for situations where this is useful to-do (say the process running
+# the above flow crashes).
 flowdetail2 = find_flow_detail(backend, logbook.uuid,
                                flowdetail.uuid)
 engine2 = taskflow.engines.load(flow_factory(),
                                 flow_detail=flowdetail,
                                 backend=backend)
 engine2.run()
-print_task_states(flowdetail, "\nAt the end:")
+print_task_states(flowdetail, "At the end")