Leveraging the Background Jobs feature in custom UI

brownm · July 3, 2025, 11:12pm

I am developing a solution to display Background Job information in a custom user interface for users who do not have administrative privileges. In my service implementation, I am utilizing the following service call from the Background Jobs feature

var apiResponse = Gateway.Send(new AdminQueryCompletedJobs());

It appears that this feature requires the user to have admin privileges, which may prevent it from working for non-admin users. Could you please advise on a more suitable approach to retrieve a list of completed jobs, including any associated responses data, for non-admin users?

Thank you for your assistance.

mythz · July 4, 2025, 3:35am

You’ll want to access the IBackgroundJobs directly for access to most of the BackgroundJobs features.

Here’s the impl of AdminQueryCompletedJobs which uses it:

github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack

ServiceStack/src/ServiceStack.Jobs/AdminJobServices.cs

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          public object Any(AdminQueryCompletedJobs request)
          {
              var feature = AssertRequiredRole();
              var month = request.Month ?? DateTime.UtcNow;
              using var monthDb = jobs.OpenMonthDb(month);
              var q = autoQuery.CreateQuery(request, base.Request, monthDb);
              return autoQuery.Execute(request, q, base.Request, monthDb);        
          }