Updating Remote Agent information/description about active_workflow

[vidas]

Hi Markus!

Unfortunately, whenever you update meta information of a remote agent (whatever register method returns) you have to restart ActiveWorkflow. Right now remote agents are mirrored by "proxy classes" that are created during ActiveWorkflow startup. Until we reimplement all core agents using the same remote agent API this will be the case... I hope this helps.

Thank you!
Vidas

P.S. You can update your check/receive methods whenever you want though. It will just work - very useful when implementing/debugging agents.

[suhrm1]

Ah thank you, I somehow was under the impression that restarting ActiveWorkflow did not trigger an update of meta information.

Quick related question: is it possible to provide message_description for Remove Agents? I tried just returning markdown under that key with the register method but it did not seem to be processed by ActiveWorkflow.

[vidas]

message_description property is not yet implemented for remote agents. It would not be very useful to make it a static constant, it should represent a real message format (that can change depending on agents configuration) therefore can't be done at the registration stage. This and other features will be added to the Remote Agent API while migrating core agents to it.

For now, I suggest describing the message format in the general description.

Thanks for your interest!

Vidas

[suhrm1]

Thank you again for clarifying. I'm looking forward to upcoming developments.

Kind regards,
Markus