Task list not consistent

[felipewd]

Hi,

When listing tasks, if I run snapctl task list a few times, the tasks are listed in different ways (not always, but a few times).

This lead me to almost stop the wrong task, and I can see other people making the same mistake I did in a production environment.

I talked it over on Slack, and @IRCody suggested listing the tasks ordered by time created, which I agree.

If you guys could take a look, that'd great.

[IRCody]

After a brief look I think the best place to change this would be in snapctl. I think sorting it before going into this loop is all that would be required.

[andrzej-k]

Hey @felipewd, maybe this is obvious, and you probably know about this, but you can give task a name, that may allow to better identify tasks.
That is --name, or -n switch for snapctl task create, or using name as part of task manifest:

---
  version: 1
  name: "task_name_here"
  schedule:
    type: "simple"
    interval: "1s"
  max-failures: 10
  workflow:
    collect:
      metrics:

[felipewd]

Hi @andrzej-k, I did know that. But if I want to do a task stop, for example, I can't reference the name.

I have to reference the Task ID, so, my original problem remains the same, right? :)