dashboard: spin the status icon if new resultant state

also fix add a hash function to check whether we should
update the activity feed

Closes #230

circle/dashboard/static/dashboard/vm-details.js

 var show_all = false;
 var show_all = false;
 var in_progress = false;
 var in_progress = false;
+var activity_hash = 5;
 
 
 $(function() {
 $(function() {
   /* do we need to check for new activities */
   /* do we need to check for new activities */
@@ -359,17 +360,6 @@ function decideActivityRefresh() {
   return check;
   return check;
 }
 }
 
 
-/* unescapes html got via the request, also removes whitespaces and replaces all ' with " */
-function unescapeHTML(html) {
-  return html.replace(/&lt;/g,'<').replace(/&gt;/g,'>').replace(/&amp;/g,'&').replace(/&ndash;/g, "–").replace(/\//g, "").replace(/'/g, '"').replace(/&#39;/g, "'").replace(/ /g, '');
-}
-
-/* the html page contains some tags that were modified via js (titles for example), we delete these
-   also some html tags are closed with / */
-function changeHTML(html) {
-  return html.replace(/data-original-title/g, "title").replace(/title=""/g, "").replace(/\//g, '').replace(/ /g, '');
-}
-
 function checkNewActivity(runs) {
 function checkNewActivity(runs) {
   var instance = location.href.split('/'); instance = instance[instance.length - 2];
   var instance = location.href.split('/'); instance = instance[instance.length - 2];
 
 
@@ -378,19 +368,24 @@ function checkNewActivity(runs) {
     url: '/dashboard/vm/' + instance + '/activity/',
     url: '/dashboard/vm/' + instance + '/activity/',
     data: {'show_all': show_all},
     data: {'show_all': show_all},
     success: function(data) {
     success: function(data) {
-      if(show_all) { /* replace on longer string freezes the spinning stuff */
-        $("#activity-refresh").html(data['activities']);
-      } else {
-        a = unescapeHTML(data['activities']);
-        b = changeHTML($("#activity-refresh").html());
-        if(a != b)
+      var new_activity_hash = (data['activities'] + "").hashCode();
+      if(new_activity_hash != activity_hash) {
         $("#activity-refresh").html(data['activities']);
         $("#activity-refresh").html(data['activities']);
       }
       }
+      activity_hash = new_activity_hash;
+
       $("#ops").html(data['ops']);
       $("#ops").html(data['ops']);
       $("#disk-ops").html(data['disk_ops']);
       $("#disk-ops").html(data['disk_ops']);
       $("[title]").tooltip();
       $("[title]").tooltip();
 
 
-      $("#vm-details-state i").prop("class", "fa " + data['icon']);
+      /* changing the status text */
+      var icon = $("#vm-details-state i");
+      if(data['is_new_state']) {
+        if(!icon.hasClass("fa-spin"))
+          icon.prop("class", "fa fa-spinner fa-spin");
+      } else {
+        icon.prop("class", "fa " + data['icon']);
+      }
       $("#vm-details-state span").html(data['human_readable_status'].toUpperCase());
       $("#vm-details-state span").html(data['human_readable_status'].toUpperCase());
       if(data['status'] == "RUNNING") {
       if(data['status'] == "RUNNING") {
         $("[data-target=#_console]").attr("data-toggle", "pill").attr("href", "#console").parent("li").removeClass("disabled");
         $("[data-target=#_console]").attr("data-toggle", "pill").attr("href", "#console").parent("li").removeClass("disabled");
@@ -421,3 +416,14 @@ function checkNewActivity(runs) {
     }
     }
   });
   });
 }
 }
+
+String.prototype.hashCode = function() {
+  var hash = 0, i, chr, len;
+  if (this.length == 0) return hash;
+  for (i = 0, len = this.length; i < len; i++) {
+    chr   = this.charCodeAt(i);
+    hash  = ((hash << 5) - hash) + chr;
+    hash |= 0; // Convert to 32bit integer
+  }
+  return hash;
+};

circle/dashboard/templates/dashboard/vm-detail.html

@@ -63,7 +63,11 @@
     <div class="col-md-4" id="vm-info-pane">
     <div class="col-md-4" id="vm-info-pane">
       <div class="big">
       <div class="big">
         <span id="vm-details-state" class="label label-success">
         <span id="vm-details-state" class="label label-success">
-          <i class="fa {{ instance.get_status_icon }}"></i>
+          <i class="fa
+            {% if is_new_state %}
+            fa-spinner fa-spin
+            {% else %}
+            {{ instance.get_status_icon }}{% endif %}"></i>
           <span>{{ instance.get_status_display|upper }}</span>
           <span>{{ instance.get_status_display|upper }}</span>
         </span>
         </span>
       </div>
       </div>

circle/dashboard/views.py

@@ -310,6 +310,9 @@ class VmDetailView(CheckedDetailView):
         activities = activities[:10]
         activities = activities[:10]
         context['activities'] = activities
         context['activities'] = activities
         context['show_show_all'] = show_show_all
         context['show_show_all'] = show_show_all
+        latest = instance.get_latest_activity_in_progress()
+        context['is_new_state'] = (latest and
+                                   instance.status != latest.resultant_state)
 
 
         context['vlans'] = Vlan.get_objects_with_level(
         context['vlans'] = Vlan.get_objects_with_level(
             'user', self.request.user
             'user', self.request.user
@@ -2456,6 +2459,9 @@ def vm_activity(request, pk):
     response['human_readable_status'] = instance.get_status_display()
     response['human_readable_status'] = instance.get_status_display()
     response['status'] = instance.status
     response['status'] = instance.status
     response['icon'] = instance.get_status_icon()
     response['icon'] = instance.get_status_icon()
+    latest = instance.get_latest_activity_in_progress()
+    response['is_new_state'] = (latest and
+                                instance.status != latest.resultant_state)
 
 
     context = {
     context = {
         'instance': instance,
         'instance': instance,

circle/vm/models/instance.py

@@ -975,3 +975,10 @@ class Instance(AclBase, VirtualMachineDescModel, StatusModel, OperatedMixin,
         return vm_tasks.screenshot.apply_async(args=[self.vm_name],
         return vm_tasks.screenshot.apply_async(args=[self.vm_name],
                                                queue=queue_name
                                                queue=queue_name
                                                ).get(timeout=timeout)
                                                ).get(timeout=timeout)
+
+    def get_latest_activity_in_progress(self):
+        try:
+            return InstanceActivity.objects.filter(
+                instance=self, succeeded=None).latest("started")
+        except InstanceActivity.DoesNotExist:
+            return None

[Őry Máté]

what if resultant_state is None?

[Őry Máté]

we could maybe filter to top-level activities (the ones with no parent)

or also to those, which have any resultant_state (but that should be a parameter, or the function name is misleading)