Improving support for long-running tasks in Forge

[ibuchanan]

Cross-posting a use case:

Getting timeouts during JSM Assets import

Hello folks, I am working on a Forge app that does asset imports into the JSM Assets platform. The app fetches CMDB data from a 3rd party product API and syncs it with Assets in JSM. I am using Imports REST API for schema creation and asset sync process. I am using the Atlassian forge framework for the same. For schema creation, we create 1 object type having 20 attributes in a single API call. We are using /mapping endpoint for the same. 6 of the attributes are of type referenced_object. I am…