Is there a way to introduce a delay between the loops of a DO_WHILE loop or a sleep in netflix conductor?

[jiggy71189]

I am using Do_While loop in my workflow. And inside loop I have one http task that will be executed again based on the loop Condition. I need to add delay between loop task means whenever it would go for execute second iteration task then it should wait for specific amount of time.
How can I achieve this feature in workflow?

[dougsillars]

Adding a WAIT task can help you solve this:

{
  "taskType": "WAIT",
  "inputParameters": {
    "duration": "2 days 3 hours"  
  }
}

https://orkes.io/content/docs/reference-docs/wait-task

The lowest interval accepted is 1s.

[dougsillars]

NOTE: that WAIT tasks have a polling interval. This is by default 30s, so your step functions on the delay would be 30s.
This loop had a 5s WAIT task in it:

[jiggy71189]

@dougsillars Thanks for the reply.
Is it possible that we can automatically resume the task of second iteration without rest api call ?

[dougsillars]

You can restart the WAIT task with an API call - but in the example above I do not, I simply set a timer, and when that expires, the workflow continues.

To create the diagram in the answer above, I kick off the workflow below with input {"sleepytime":5}

Here is the wait task inside the loop.

 {
          "name": "sleeper",
          "taskReferenceName": "sleeper_ref",
          "inputParameters": {
            "duration": "${workflow.input.sleepytime} seconds"
          },
          "type": "WAIT",
        }

[dougsillars]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AnMRKZJhio

I made a video to help describe the wait task

[Vin-terfresh]

Thank you for the explanation, @dougsillars. Can you tell me, please, how can I change polling interval for wait tasks?