[cups] Completed jobs returned older first in 2.0?

Alex Korobkin korobkin+cups at gmail.com
Tue Sep 1 06:32:01 PDT 2015


Thanks Michael. Let's look into completed jobs only. RFC2911 says that
completed jobs should be returned newest first. I see completed jobs in the
Web UI being returned as oldest first. Is it expected or a bug?

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:

> Alex,
>
> RFC 2911 only defines the order of 'completed' and 'not-completed'.  The
> other "which-jobs" values are defined in PWG 5100.11 without an ordering
> requirement.
>
>
> > On Aug 31, 2015, at 3:24 PM, Alex Korobkin <korobkin+cups at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Do you mean https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4396 ?
> >
> > It says this:
> >
> >      - If the client requests all 'completed' Jobs (Jobs in the
> >        'completed', 'aborted', or 'canceled' states), then the Jobs are
> >        returned newest to oldest (with respect to actual completion
> >        time)
> >
> > However, I see oldest to newest when i click "See completed jobs" and
> > newest to oldest when i click "See all jobs".
> >
> > it is slightly confusing and I don't understand why the behavior should
> > differ. RFC doesn't seem to state that.
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:
> >
> >> CUPS 2.0 fixed a long-standing bug with the order of jobs that were
> >> returned so that we are now compliant with RFC 2911's requirements.  You
> >> can click in the job ID field to reverse the order.
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Aug 31, 2015, at 12:49 PM, Alex Korobkin <korobkin+cups at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> I'm testing CUPS 2.0.4 and noticed that completed jobs in Web UI are
> >>> returned in the ascending order -- older jobs first. This is different
> >> from
> >>> the CUPS 1.7 and earlier versions.
> >>>
> >>> Is it just me (I have multiple patches applied over CUPS UI) , or is
> it a
> >>> new behavior in CUPS 2.x?
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> -Alex
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