Feature request: rc api new field `execute_id` on `job/list`

[yuudi]

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What is your current rclone version (output from rclone version)?

rclone v1.62.2

What problem are you are trying to solve?

A GUI frontend display backend jobs

How do you think rclone should be changed to solve that?

Currently we have rc api job/list to list backend jobs, but because user may restart backend or frontend at anytime, frontend cannot track job by job_id because it starts counting from 1 on every restart, so we need a new field to help track the job.

I thinks a new field execute_id would help. It will be generated on every restart and not changed during running. Frontend will know the job_id is no longer used when detect execute_id changes.

I will make a pull request on this later.

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[ncw]

We could just start with a random number for job id?

[yuudi]

We could just start with a random number for job id?

This seems vague for frontend to check if backend has restarted. Frontend may not want to check if a new job-id is in range (previous, previous + 10000).

So, I think a new field that use random number would be better.

[yuudi]

Thanks for merging #7096