Layman uses asynchronous tasks for processing publications (layers and maps), because some processing steps may take a long time. For example, importing 100 MB ShapeFile to DB may take few tens of seconds.
Asynchronous tasks are started by following requests:
- POST Workspace Layers
- tasks related to newly published layer
- tasks related to each map that points to newly published layer
- PATCH Workspace Layer
- tasks related to patched layer
- tasks related to each map that points to patched layer
- POST Workspace Maps
- tasks related to newly published map
- PATCH Workspace Map
- tasks related to patched map
- WFS-T
- tasks related to each edited vector layer
- tasks related to each map that points to at least one edited vector layer
Each request starts series of asynchronous tasks called chain.