#!/usr/bin/env python

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"""A simple example showing to use the Service.job method to retrieve

a search Job by its sid.

"""

import sys

import os

import time

sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), ".."))

import splunklib.client as client

try:

from utils import *

except ImportError:

raise Exception("Add the SDK repository to your PYTHONPATH to run the examples "

"(e.g., export PYTHONPATH=~/splunk-sdk-python.")

def main(argv):

opts = parse(argv, {}, ".splunkrc")

service = client.connect(**opts.kwargs)

# Execute a simple search, and store the sid

sid = service.search("search index=_internal | head 5").sid

# Now, we can get the `Job`

job = service.job(sid)

# Wait for the job to complete

while not job.is_done():

time.sleep(1)

print "Number of events found: %d" % int(job["eventCount"])

if __name__ == "__main__":

main(sys.argv[1:])