Persist a data structure throughout Long run

[jrobinson-uk]

Hi I have a dictionary style object that is being interated over for my longrun process, whilst the initial run works, the schedule run fails as it can access the object any longer. Can you advise on how i might make it persist?

[inclu-cat]

Hi, unfortunately, variables in memory cannot be used between LongRun's scheduled processes.
I think you need to store that variable in a spreadsheet or something when LongRun suspends and restore it when it resumes.

[jrobinson-uk]

I actually managed to get it mostly working by creating the object within the longrun init function

var params = [];
inventory = getInventory()
LongRun.instance.setMaxExecutionSeconds(30);
executeLongRun("priceMain", inventory.length, params, "priceInitializer", "priceFinalizer");
}


function priceInitializer(startIndex, params) {
  inventory = getInventory()

}

The only challenge I have now is that the longrun process iterates for the length of the object so I have to get the object once to set the run length and then set up again in the init function.

Is there a way to change the number of iterations from the init function?

[inclu-cat]

Is there a way to change the number of iterations from the init function?

Sorry, it doesn't have that feature at this time.
As a workaround, you might be able to set the number of iterations large at first and skip immediately at "priceMain" function if the index is greater than the number you actually need.