I'm trying to set a maxWallClockTime of 72 hours using the ISO 8601 Duration format. The documentation for this property is useless, so I'm basing my guess on using the 8601 format on that being the way to set the same property at the Batch Job level when using the CLI. My constraints object is as follows:
const taskConstraints = {
maxWallClockTime: 'P3D' //ISO 8601 Duration Format e.g. P3Y6M4DT12H30M5S represents a duration of three years, six months, four days, twelve hours, thirty minutes, and five seconds.
};
However, this results in the following error:
task.constraints.maxWallClockTime must be a TimeSpan/Duration.
I cannot find any examples that set this property and use the Javascript API, any pointers to better documentation or example code would be greatly appreciated.
Agreed the docs are lacking here. I haven't tested this out locally yet, but from looking at the code I believe the answer depends on whether you are using the older Node.js-specific azure-batch package or the newer @azure/batch which also runs in web browsers.
For the "azure-batch" package, it looks like it takes a Moment.js duration object. Here's the related JSDoc string:
* @property {moment.duration} [maxWallClockTime] The maximum elapsed time
* that the Task may run, measured from the time the Task starts. If the Task
* does not complete within the time limit, the Batch service terminates it.
* If this is not specified, there is no time limit on how long the Task may
* run.
For the newer "@azure/batch" package, it should take an ISO-8601 duration string. If you're using that package then the value you're trying to use looks right to me, and maybe it's a bug (I'd have to try to repro it).