AddJob Method

'Declaration
 
<FaultContractAttribute(DetailType=Leadtools.Services.Cloud.FaultContracts.CloudFault, 
   Action="", 
   Name="", 
   Namespace="", 
   ProtectionLevel=ProtectionLevel.None, 
   HasProtectionLevel=False)>
<OperationContractAttribute()>
Function AddJob( _
   ByVal request As AddJobRequest _
) As AddJobResponse

'This method will be used to store the conversion settings (how the file should be converted).
'We will serialize it at the, and the worker assembly will deserialize it to obtain the settings.
Public Structure JobMetadata
   Public SourceFile As String
   Public TargetFile As String
   Public Format As String

   Public Sub New(ByVal _sourceFile As String, ByVal _targetFile As String, ByVal _format As String)
      SourceFile = _sourceFile
      TargetFile = _targetFile
      Format = _format
   End Sub
End Structure

'Serialize the job metadata to an xml string so it can be stored in the cloud database,
'and deserialized later by the worker assembly when the job is processed.
Public Function SerializeToString(ByVal jobMetadata As JobMetadata) As String
   'Serialize the job metadata to an xml string so it can be stored in the cloud database,
   'and deserialized later by the worker assembly when the job is processed.
   Using sw As StringWriter = New StringWriter()
      Dim xmlSerializer As XmlSerializer = New XmlSerializer(GetType(JobMetadata))
      xmlSerializer.Serialize(sw, jobMetadata)
      Return sw.ToString()
   End Using
End Function

Public Sub AddJob()
   Using jobServiceClient As JobServiceClient = New JobServiceClient()
      Dim addJobRequest As AddJobRequest = New AddJobRequest()
      addJobRequest.UserToken = "User1"
      'The job metadata describes how the job should be converted. For this example, we will assume the worker assembly
      'will convert image files from one format to another. We will create a struct (JobMetadata) to hold the conversion
      'information, serialize it to a string, and add it as the job metadata. In a typical scenario, the worker assembly
      'would receive the job metadata, deserialize it, and convert the file based on the properties in the JobMetadata
      'struct.
      Dim jobMetadata As JobMetadata = New JobMetadata("c:\input.jpg", "c:\output.pdf", "PDF")
      addJobRequest.JobMetadata = SerializeToString(jobMetadata)
      addJobRequest.JobType = "ConvertToPDF"
      Dim addJobResponse As AddJobResponse = jobServiceClient.AddJob(addJobRequest)
      If (Not String.IsNullOrEmpty(addJobResponse.ID)) Then
         Console.WriteLine(String.Format("The ID of the new job is {0}", addJobResponse.ID))
      End If
   End Using
End Sub