https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Custom-Search-Command-V2-Chunked-Persist-script/m-p/626063#M10884 <P>Hi! Long time listener, first time caller here.</P><P>Our custom search command needs some slow initialization, which we would prefer to skip on repeated calls.</P><P><STRONG>Is there a way to keep the process alive after the first invocation and only call dispatch() afterwards?<BR /></STRONG>Something that does <A href="https://dev.splunk.com/enterprise/docs/devtools/customrestendpoints/" target="_self">what scripttype = persist does for REST endpoints</A>.</P><P>My understanding is that the protocol would allow this.</P><P>Calling dispatch() in a loop sadly doesn't work - would've been too easy, huh?<BR />(It does work in so far that the command finishes - it's just that the script gets started again the next time)</P> Fri, 06 Jan 2023 00:30:31 GMT spunk_enthusias 2023-01-06T00:30:31Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Custom-Search-Command-V2-Chunked-Persist-script/m-p/626063#M10884 <P>Hi! Long time listener, first time caller here.</P><P>Our custom search command needs some slow initialization, which we would prefer to skip on repeated calls.</P><P><STRONG>Is there a way to keep the process alive after the first invocation and only call dispatch() afterwards?<BR /></STRONG>Something that does <A href="https://dev.splunk.com/enterprise/docs/devtools/customrestendpoints/" target="_self">what scripttype = persist does for REST endpoints</A>.</P><P>My understanding is that the protocol would allow this.</P><P>Calling dispatch() in a loop sadly doesn't work - would've been too easy, huh?<BR />(It does work in so far that the command finishes - it's just that the script gets started again the next time)</P> Fri, 06 Jan 2023 00:30:31 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Custom-Search-Command-V2-Chunked-Persist-script/m-p/626063#M10884 spunk_enthusias 2023-01-06T00:30:31Z