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Handle flag cases of slurm job state#120

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Handle flag cases of slurm job state#120
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We had a user report a 500 error, caused by indexing off the end of the status list in this code. When I took a look at the database, I saw a job state value of 1024, which prompted me to check slurm's source for how state values are handled.

See the following files in slurm's source:
src/common/slurm_protocol_defs.c
slurm/slurm.h

This code follows the inconsistent order in which slurm's own code handles these flags, all of which seem to preempt the JOB_STATE_BASE values. Note that there are some flags defined which aren't handled; presumbly the base states take priority in these cases, in terms of reporting a single string to summarize the state.

Julian Squires and others added 2 commits April 22, 2026 15:27
We had a user report a 500 error, caused by indexing off the end of
the status list in this code.  When I took a look at the database, I
saw a job state value of 1024, which prompted me to check slurm's
source for how state values are handled.

See the following files in slurm's source:
  src/common/slurm_protocol_defs.c
  slurm/slurm.h

This code follows the inconsistent order in which slurm's own code
handles these flags, all of which seem to preempt the JOB_STATE_BASE
values.  Note that there are some flags defined which aren't handled;
presumbly the base states take priority in these cases, in terms of
reporting a single string to summarize the state.
It's not clear to me that there's a way to write this using `choices`
that can express everything going on with slurm job state, so we
provide get_state_display() ourselves.

Keep StatesJob, however, as its constants are used elsewhere in the
code (somewhat validly, though ideally we'd mask such tests by 255).
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