[Developers] any programmatic way to query for sandbox reloading status?

[Kirrily Robert]

It seems to me that you could do this yourself, in a weird way.  When  
you run your sandbox updater, create a topic on sandbox called  
"Sandbox hasn't been refreshed yet."  Then when your cron job runs,  
look for the presence of that topic, also checking for creator =  
rdhyee just to be sure.  If the topic doesn't exist, it means sandbox  
has been refreshed, in which case you run your updater again and re- 
create the topic.

Hacky, but should do the trick.

K.

On 17/07/2009, at 11:48 AM, Raymond Yee wrote:

> Now that freebase-python 1.0 makes it easier to easier to save and  
> copy
> types and objects around
> (http://blog.freebase.com/2009/07/10/freebase-python-1-0/ ), I'm
> thinking of automating the process of saving my sandbox work and
> reloading it every week.  Is there an API call (or series of API  
> calls)
> I can make to determine 1) whether the sandbox is in the process of
> being reloaded and 2) when that reloading is done?  Also some
> information that indicates an estimate of when the next reload will
> start and when it will end would be helpful for automating saving my
> work between sandbox refreshes.
>
> -Raymond
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