Scheduling Jobs to Check Expired Access Token in Yaydoc

In Yaydoc, we use the user access token to do various tasks like pushing documentation, registering webhook and to see it’s status.The user access token is very important to us, so I decided of adding Cron job which checks whether the user token has expired or not. But then one problem was that, if we have more number of users our cron job will send thousands of request at a time so it can break the app. So, I thought of queueing the process. I used `asyc` library for queuing the job.

const github = require("./github")
const queue = require("./queue")

User = require("../model/user");

exports.checkExpiredToken = function () {
  User.count(function (error, count) {
    if (error) {
      console.log(error);
    } else {
      var page = 0;
      if (count < 10) {
        page = 1;
      } else {
        page = count / 10;
        if (page * 10 < count) {
          page = (count + 10) /10;
        }
      }
      for (var i = 0; i <= page; i++) {
        User.paginateUsers(i, 10,
        function (error, users) {
          if (error) {
            console.log(error);
          } else {
            users.forEach(function(user) {
              queue.addTokenRevokedJob(user);
            })
          }
        })
      }
    }
  })
}

In the above code I’m paginating the list of users in the database and then I’m adding each user to the queue.

var tokenRevokedQueue = async.queue(function (user, done) {
  github.retriveUser(user.token, function (error, userData) {
    if (error) {
      if (user.expired === false) {
        mailer.sendMailOnTokenFailure(user.email);
        User.updateUserById(user.id, {
          expired: true
        }, function(error, data) {
          if (error) {
            console.log(error);
          }
        });
      }
      done();
    } else {
      done();
    }
  })
}, 2);

I made this queue with the help of async queue method. In the first parameter, I’m passing the logic and in second parameter, I’m passing how many jobs can be executed asynchronously. I’m checking if the user has revoked the token or not by sending API requests to GitHub’s user API. If it gives a response ‘200’ then the token is valid otherwise it’s invalid. If the user token is invalid, I’m sending email to the user saying that “Your access token in revoked so Sign In once again to continue the service”.

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Export Timeline as iCal

iCal or iCalendar is the Internet standard for sharing event schedules or session timelines among each other. The filename extension for iCal is .ics . It is supported by a number of applications such as Google Calendar, Apple Calendar,] Yahoo! Calendar, Lightning extension for Mozilla Thunderbird and SeaMonkey, and partially by Microsoft Outlook . In Open Event Organizer’s Server we have added a feature to export the Schedule of a particular Event in iCal format.

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Open Event: Planning the Scheduler UI

{ Repost from my personal bloghttps://blog.codezero.xyz/planning-the-scheduler-ui/ }

In the first phase of the GSoC coding period, Saptak Sengupta and myself have been working on the Scheduler UI.

The Scheduler UI would allow the organizers to graphically schedule/manage the sessions in their conference/event.

Event-Organizer by Josh Greco has been a major inspiration for the timeline design. The css styles have been borrowed from that project.

After some research, we have decided to use the interact.js javascript library for implementing drag-drop and resizing functionality to the project and lodash for array/collection manipulations and for some useful utility functions.

The following tasks have been formulated:

  • Drag-and-drop interface to add session blocks into a timeline
  • Resize sessions to change time
  • load live data from the server using the API
  • Handle session clashes within a track properly
  • Add Track button that opens up a modal to add a track.
  • Search option for unscheduled sessions
  • Save each session change/update using the API
  • Option to Export timeline as pdf
  • Option to export timeline/calendar as iCal

An umbrella issue (#349) has been created in the open-event-orga-serverrespository to track the progress. There will be a separate issue created for each task when that task is being worked upon and the same would be referred to in the umbrella issue.

We are targeting GSOC 2016: Milestone 4 (Due by June 12, 2016) to finish the Scheduler UI and we are confident that we’ll be able to reach our target. *fingers-crossed* :sweat_smile:

To know more about the Scheduler UI, read Enhancing the Open Event Server: Scheduler UI.

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Enhancing the Open Event Server: Scheduler UI

{ Repost from my personal blog @ https://blog.codezero.xyz/enhancing-open-event-scheduler-one/ }

The community bonding period went pretty well. Worked on the OpenTechSummit 2016‘s website. Fixed a few issues. Got to know the team. :smile:

Now comes the coding period which started yesterday (23rd May 2016).
In the first phase, I (Niranjan Rajendran) will be primarily working on creating a Scheduler tool for each event. Saptak Sengupta and myself will be working on this.

The Scheduler would allow the organizers to graphically schedule/manage the sessions in their conference/event. The proposed features for the Scheduler are:

  1. Drag-and-drop sessions into tracks on a timeline.
  2. Change the timings of the sessions by resizing the sessions’ element on the timeline.
  3. Create a new event by dragging a time period on the timeline.
  4. Create new tracks.
  5. Switch between timelines of the different days of the event.
  6. Load existing sessions from the database into the timeline.
  7. Print the timeline or convert it into a PDF file.
  8. Export the schedule in different formats such as iCalendar.

The scheduler UI would not be practical on small screens (Mobile phones) and would be hard to use. So, we will be thinking of some alternative – a simpler interface for smaller screens.

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