How do I check that a branch is done provisioning?

[deliciouslytyped]

So given that the POST request for creating a branch doesn't actually completely create it, and it has to wait for a background provisioning job to finish - how do you wait until the branch is ready? I haven't noticed if there is a way to connect the branch creation result to it's corresponding jobs.

[deliciouslytyped]

OK, after further inspection, jobs have an object_id and object_type field, and those seem to correspond to for example netbox_branching.branch and the ID of the branch respectively. With pynetbox you can do something like n.core.jobs.get(object_type=151, object_id=6).status.value to see if it's completed.

I haven't figured out how to get the integer corresponding to an object_type, needed by get() to filter (here 151, at least on my server, corresponded to the netbox_branching.branch type, which I coincidentally saw in the url for the mouseover of the link for the Object type under a page like https://local.sandstorm.io:9999/netbox/core/jobs/13/ ).

So something like:

def wait_branch(bname):
  branchtype=151

  #TODO Why is status mandatory for creation? https://github.com/netboxlabs/netbox-branching/discussions/173
  branch = n.plugins.branching.branches.create(name=bname, status='new') 
  while (status := (job := n.core.jobs.get(object_type=branchtype, object_id=branch.id)).status.value) != 'completed':
    time.sleep(1)
    print(f"Waiting for provisioning of {bname} to complete")