support for removing a range of items from the queue

[toqduj]

We are typically enqueueing hundreds if not thousands of items to the queue. If we make a mistake, it would be nice to be able to remove a whole range or number of items from the back or the front of the queue via the command line.

I suggest something like this to remove the last 152 items...

qserver queue item remove back 152

or to remove a given range (with negative indices indicating "from the back of the queue")...

qserver queue item remove range -152 -1

Does that make sense?

[dmgav]

Are you using command line tool to manage the queue? If you manage the queue from an application you can use queue_item_remove_batch or its equivalent REST API equivalent to remove a batch of items.

[toqduj]

yes, we're using the command-line tool in the lab for now, enqueueing with a script. I still have to try to see if I can get any of the interfaces working (such as https://codebase.helmholtz.cloud/hzb/bluesky/qt_gui/source/bluesky-qt-gui/-/tree/v1.0.0rc1 and https://github.com/xraygui/nbs-gui )..